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seeking my source: My 50 classics
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Nd Prejudice, Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen. Persuasion, Jane Austen. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West. Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton. The Good Earth, Pearl Buck. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith. Howl, Alan Ginsberg.
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seeking my source: October 2011
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Friday, October 28, 2011. My Lousiana Sky, by Kimberly Willi Holt. This is the kind of book I devoured by the dozen when I was a middle-schooler. On the young end of the YA spectrum, it features a misunderstood heroine on the brink of adolescence, struggling with issues that are just a little harder than average. I'd recommend this to girls in the 10-13 age group. It's thought-provoking in a quick-read kind of way, with a very satisfying it's-okay-to-be-yourself message. Links to this post. Been gotten, ...
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seeking my source: Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart
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Friday, March 23, 2012. Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart. Oh, it was super sad. Absolutely. Although the saddest part of this satire was the disintegration of American society. The love story was sad, too, though more in a disturbing, pathetic train-wreck-of-a-relationship kind of way than a star-crossed-lovers sort of way. These shifting and combining themes of alienation, along with the beautifully realized dystopia of the almost-now, are deeply affecting, and at times very funny. Lenn...
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seeking my source: December 2011
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011. November has caught me reading several books at a time, which is always tricky - once I divert my attention it's hard to say whether it will ever return. An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel. By Brock Clark, but only got through about half. The tone charmed me at first, but soon grated. He's sort of a modern-day Vonnegut, and his novel would benefit from Vonnegut-like brevity. I'm mid-way through Chang and Eng. By Justin Torres, is a first novel and.
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seeking my source: Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See
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Thursday, March 8, 2012. Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See. For some reason I expected to really like this book. Let's just say I won't be running out to get the sequel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Book-related sites I can't stay away from. 52 stories: a (good! New short story every week. Flashlight worthy books: reading lists for every taste and mood. Jess Walter's reading log. Award winners I'd like to have read. Blogs I like to check in on. A Book A Week. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Throwi...
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seeking my source: March 2012
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje. I first read this book about 15 years ago, and was blown away. I rushed to finish it the day before the movie came out, and thus ruined my enjoyment of a highly acclaimed film. My disappointment stemmed from the filmmakers choosing what I considered to be the secondary love story as their main theme. Otherwise, I remember it as beautiful and moving. What can I say, the book is always better. Links to this post. Friday, March 23, 2012.
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seeking my source: Chang and Eng, by Darin Strauss
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Sunday, March 11, 2012. Chang and Eng, by Darin Strauss. Yesterday I told my friend Tessa that life is too short to read anything you don't thoroughly enjoy. Then I went back to slogging my way through this book, which I have been failing to enjoy lo these many months. The premise is pretty fascinating; it's the fictional memoir of one of the original Siamese twins. The writing is good, the story is promising, but I just didn't like it. I loved Darin Strauss' memoir, Half a Life. And look forward to read...
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seeking my source: February 2012
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Saturday, February 25, 2012. The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace. This is a posthumous work, painstakingly stitched together from the papers Wallace left upon his untimely death. The editor, Michael Pietsch, describes it as a labor of love, but it must have been Herculean. One can only imagine how great the novel would have been if finished; as it is, we are lucky to have it in this form, and it is fantastic despite its lack of polish. What is the book about? Links to this post. But there can't be too...
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seeking my source: The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje. I first read this book about 15 years ago, and was blown away. I rushed to finish it the day before the movie came out, and thus ruined my enjoyment of a highly acclaimed film. My disappointment stemmed from the filmmakers choosing what I considered to be the secondary love story as their main theme. Otherwise, I remember it as beautiful and moving. What can I say, the book is always better. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A sweaty ...
