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Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel | pigeonfiles
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Readings and travel writings. Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel. April 14, 2016. April 15, 2016. While the subtitle of this book announces itself as a novel, in terms of length, it more closely resembles a novella or short story, as it can be read in one sitting. But in terms of the depth of emotional involvement it manages to draw out, it reads more like a novel. My Name Is Lucy Barton. By the end of the novel, Lucy reflects on the pain she has caused her own children and adds,. What is...
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Patrick Modiano’s Honeymoon & Dora Bruder | pigeonfiles
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Readings and travel writings. Patrick Modiano’s Honeymoon and Dora Bruder. April 16, 2016. Eighteen years later, Jean returns to Milan. As a documentary filmmaker, he has spent most of his adult life making films about explorers who disappeared. Not only is he tired of making films no one cares about, but he’s tired of his life, so he decides to disappear. Modiano’s novels often engage with this theme. In. Was written while writing. Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel. This is a beautiful ...
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Reading Catching-Up: Brian Kiteley’s Still Life With Insects & Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango | mirabile dictu
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The Best of Packaging: Cat in a Box! Doris Lessing’s A Ripple From the Storm →. Raquo; Reading Catching-Up: Brian Kiteley’s Still Life With Insects and Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango. Reading Catching-Up: Brian Kiteley’s Still Life With Insects and Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango. August 10, 2015. I have read so many remarkable books this summer that I haven’t had time to write about them. 1989 classic, Still Life With Insects. The Gods of Tango. Still Life With Insects. Is one of the ...
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The Best of Packaging: Cat in a Box! | mirabile dictu
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Bill Moyers’s Tribute to Doris Lessing. Reading Catching-Up: Brian Kiteley’s Still Life With Insects and Carolina De Robertis’s The Gods of Tango →. Raquo; The Best of Packaging: Cat in a Box! The Best of Packaging: Cat in a Box! August 8, 2015. I love it when books arrive in the mail. When DH is away, I smuggle it out to the recycling bin, à la. He thinks everything should now be on the e-reader. But there are others who revel in book mail days. The white cat comes first to investigate. How could it be?
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Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites | mirabile dictu
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The Boringness of Dreams and My Mother’s Strawberry Shortcake. Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time →. Raquo; Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites. Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites. August 3, 2015. I try to catch up on new fiction in the summer. No, I am not reading the Man Booker Prize longlist, nor the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize list. I just pick up what interests me. I recently read Alice Hoffman’s. The Marriage of Opposites,. Was chosen for the Oprah Book Club. Still, Hoffman’...
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves ~ Karen Joy Fowler | Thinking in Fragments
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But making connections too. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler. June 24, 2015. June 23, 2015. For a number of reasons I resisted reading Karen Joy Fowler’s Booker short listed novel. We Are All Completely Beside. When it was first published in 2013. Like so many book club addicts I’d read and enjoyed. The Jane Austen Book Club. Well, more fool me! So, what is it about this book that makes it stand out as one of the best books I’ve read so far this year? A chimpanzee and who lives wit...
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‘Banned’ Authors | Thinking in Fragments
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But making connections too. 8216;Banned’ Authors. June 4, 2015. June 4, 2015. Coincidentally, I was browsing through some old copies of. Yesterday and came across an article by Francis King which began. In the light of the above, it is hardly surprising that when…a friend of mine…pressed Lewis’s ‘The Revenge of Love’ on me, I read it with growing annoyance. At the close of Part I, I gave up on it. I wonder how you feel about this? Do you think you would react in the same way? Posted in Reading Groups.
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‘Notes from a Dead House’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky – Four Years of Hard Labor in a Prison Camp in Siberia | Tony's Book World
https://anokatony.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/notes-from-a-dead-house-by-fyodor-dostoevsky-four-years-of-hard-labor-in-a-prison-camp-in-siberia
Tony's Book World. In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene. Forgotten Novels by Decade. Top Ten Lists By Year. Laquo; ‘To Be a Pilgrim’ by Joyce Cary Caution, Read at Your Own Risk. Broken Glass’ by Arthur Miller The Kristallnacht Play. Notes from a Dead House’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky Four Years of Hard Labor in a Prison Camp in Siberia. Posted May 9, 2015 by Anokatony in Book Reviews. Notes From a Dead House. Notes from a Dead House’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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The Boringness of Dreams & My Mother’s Strawberry Shortcake | mirabile dictu
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Mosquito Trucks and Who Stole the Bug House? Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites →. Raquo; The Boringness of Dreams and My Mother’s Strawberry Shortcake. The Boringness of Dreams and My Mother’s Strawberry Shortcake. August 2, 2015. I dreamed about my mother. Dreams are boring. Skip to the strawberry shortcake if you like. Mom, age 30, with me. I opened the door. There she was, crying but alive. She died two years ago. I suppose that’s why I dreamed. All, all are dead now. My snobbishly-brought-up ...
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Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel | pigeonfiles
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Readings and travel writings. Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel. April 14, 2016. April 15, 2016. While the subtitle of this book announces itself as a novel, in terms of length, it more closely resembles a novella or short story, as it can be read in one sitting. But in terms of the depth of emotional involvement it manages to draw out, it reads more like a novel. My Name Is Lucy Barton. By the end of the novel, Lucy reflects on the pain she has caused her own children and adds,. What is...
