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The Last Best Year: January 2008
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The Last Best Year. If not now, when? Tuesday, January 01, 2008. Last Post from this site. I've moved to http:/ elizabethnow.blogspot.com/. Please come over and have a cup of tea. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Last Post from this site. View my complete profile. August J. Pollak.
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Life and Literature: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Saturday, June 18, 2011. The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller. In a previous blog, I mentioned that Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose. The characters of Green Plums. Reacted to the continuous oppression by engaging in a variety of schemes to outwit the authorities, including the hiding of books and silencing of any conversation that could even remotely be considered the least bit...
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Life and Literature: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Thursday, February 14, 2013. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Lee's only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. 1961) has been read by more people than perhaps any other book our group has read previously (30 million copies sold), with the possible exception of Lolita. Wm Faulkner, 1929). By Bradbury) appeared, then again in 1957 by Doubleday, preceding Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Life and Literature: Candide (or Optimism) by Voltaire
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Candide (or Optimism) by Voltaire. At least 250 years after its publication in 1759, Candide. Is still very funny satire. My favorite line from Candide. Is, "let's eat some Jesuit"- probably because a good portion of my education is due to the Jesuits. Perhaps it would be even funnier to me if I was a Catholic, or maybe I would just laugh guiltily. Was a...
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Life and Literature: February 2013
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Thursday, February 14, 2013. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Lee's only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. 1961) has been read by more people than perhaps any other book our group has read previously (30 million copies sold), with the possible exception of Lolita. Wm Faulkner, 1929). By Bradbury) appeared, then again in 1957 by Doubleday, preceding Mockingbird. Links to this post.
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Life and Literature: July 2012
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. By Chuck Palahniuk (rhymes with colonic! Which won the 1997 Pacific Booksellers Award and the 1997 Oregon Book Award for best novel. Those awards are not what people typically think of when they think of Fight Club. Palahniuk's book was, as noted above, well-received critically- even though he did not have the assistance of an...
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Life and Literature: June 2011
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Saturday, June 18, 2011. The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller. In a previous blog, I mentioned that Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose. The characters of Green Plums. Reacted to the continuous oppression by engaging in a variety of schemes to outwit the authorities, including the hiding of books and silencing of any conversation that could even remotely be considered the least bit...
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Life and Literature: December 2010
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Candide (or Optimism) by Voltaire. At least 250 years after its publication in 1759, Candide. Is still very funny satire. My favorite line from Candide. Is, "let's eat some Jesuit"- probably because a good portion of my education is due to the Jesuits. Perhaps it would be even funnier to me if I was a Catholic, or maybe I would just laugh guiltily. Was a...
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Life and Literature: January 2011
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Thoughts about the book group's selections. Sometimes, I write the about the endings of books, films, and other narratives. Friday, January 28, 2011. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. Stegner's Angle of Repose. Fortunately, a member of the book group dispelled the controversy by sharing some information from her edition, explaining that the Foote family wanted to share the letters, but also wanted to remain anonymous. Well, if you are Stegner, what do you do? Structurally, Angle of Repose. Which, given...
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