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His mates on the Metropolitan Police Force are having a raffle about which arhitectural landmark of London will be blown to smithereens next by PC Peter Grant, junior member on the Force and rookie practitioner of magic. It's not like he del..." Read more of this review » |
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"(2.5) Is it a simple account of the implosion of two Washington, D.C. fortysomethings’ marriage? Or is it a sweeping epic of Judaism from the biblical patriarchs to imagined all-out Middle Eastern warfare? Can it succeed in being both? I didn’t re..."
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"How I loved reading this book! The humoresque style in which it is told. It' a twenties story but actually very actual about a middleclass estate agent who is confronted with midlife crisis and something as a burnout. He wants to be popular, wants..."
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What a beautiful, quiet, and atmospheric novel set in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, beginning in 1972, of a family waiting for their lost family member who has gone missing from the Vietnam war. I loved the relations..." Read more of this review » |
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Happy Christmas and New Year, Marita. Your reviews have been great all year, always a pleasure to read and helpful.
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Excellent review, Praveen. I enjoyed this, too.
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Thanks David. No question it's a tough read.
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When I first arrived in Florence two friends I made were about to go to film school in Rome and both loved the scripts Handke wrote for Wenders. I too
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She was really interesting when the BBC interviewed all the Booker nominees, especially when she spoke about this novel. I'm encouraged by your five
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“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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