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Rooms with Windows: April 2015
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Friday, April 10, 2015. The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean. Sub-title: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the Periodic Table of the Elements. If you didn't like science and didn't get chemistry or you love both you'll appreciate this read. Published: 2010 Read: April 2015 Genre: Non-fiction, Science. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Followers join here or with Google to get a notice of new posts.
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Rooms with Windows: Miracle at Augusta - James Patterson & Peter de Jonge
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Saturday, August 15, 2015. Miracle at Augusta - James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. It was fun to read and I might try some other "golf" stories. Published: 2015 Read: August 2015 Genre: Fiction. ISBN: 9 780316 410977. Post your comments here, would love to hear what you think. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Followers join here or with Google to get a notice of new posts. We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas. Euphoria - Lily King.
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Rooms with Windows: February 2015
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Ravelstein - Saul Bellow. After reading it and not "getting it" I looked up reviews and found that it was considered a masterpiece that told the thinly veiled story of Bellow and his mentor, Alan Bloom, a philosopher from the University of Chicago. It was the last book Bellow wrote; he was 85 at the time. If you dislike existence then death is your release. You can call it nihilism, if you like.". I think the...
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Rooms with Windows: January 2015
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See. I enjoyed this book. It's been on my TBR for a long time and I found it recently in the used book store. It's the story of two girls in China in the 1800's who become laotong. Or life time friends. They share a secret woman's language that they use to record messages between one another on a fan. Lily tells the story of their becoming laotong. The Language of Flower...
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Rooms with Windows: July 2015
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Sunday, July 26, 2015. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd. I'd been on a two week vacation with hardly anything to read (ack! The Mermaid Chair is the story of a middle aged woman, a recent empty-nester who goes back to her family home on an island and has an affair with a local monk-in-training. The opening line is great:. At one point she ponders the meaning of soul. A squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which colle...
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Rooms with Windows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Thursday, May 7, 2015. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. My goodness, it looks like I haven't done any reading in over a month! We're treated to a friendship, a courtship, a community of survivors that are slowly revealed in the exchange. I delighted in the way the characters unfolded and how their quirks and personalities were so pointedly portrayed in their quick retorts and po...
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Rooms with Windows: November 2014
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Sunday, November 30, 2014. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt. I picked this book up to read for one of my book clubs, intending to pass it on to a different one of my other book clubs. It received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and had pages of rave reviews in the beginning of the book so I dove in, despite it being over 700 pages. Here's the poor little orphan reflecting on when his father left:. At least his life is, the spoiled whining brat.
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Rooms with Windows: October 2014
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Monday, October 27, 2014. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh. Published: 1948 Read: October 2014 Genre: Fiction. Sunday, October 26, 2014. X - Rated - Bonnie Louise. I couldn't help but wonder if some force somewhere is painting X's on some of us these days. When you finally seem to finish all the growing prescribed for you, when you've reached your full potential and stand tall for all the world to see, someone comes along and declares y...
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Rooms with Windows: August 2015
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Monday, August 31, 2015. We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas. As a young girl, her father takes her to see how the better half lives, beginning her desire for a better life:. There were places, she saw now, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be content to stay where you were.". When the real problem is revealed she wonders why it's happening. She had never had a ...
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Rooms with Windows: June 2015
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A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann. Friday, June 26, 2015. Lobster Chronicles - Linda Greenlaw. Sub-title: Life on a very small island. Published: 2002 Read: June 2015 Genre: Auto-biography. The Seven Daughters of Eve - Bryan Sykes. Sub-title: The Science that reveals our genetic ancestry. P 28 - Like more familiar instruction systems such as language, number or computer binary code what matters is not so much the symbols themselves bu the order in which they appear.".
