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[595] The Long Song – Andrea Levy 23 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
” July sucked upon her teeth for a long while; being called Marguerite by this woman was what began the cuss, but its vent was lengthened for having this missus bid her, as if she were still her slave...
Goddard 22 Aug 2013 | 01:38 am
Some of my cherished novels with academic setting are Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris, The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook, and A Separate Peace by John Knowles. A search for similar bo...
Got Style? 21 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
I love grammar books. Since I was a very young learner of English language back in Hong Kong, then a British colony, I kept a copy of Concise English Grammar published by Macmillan. In college, freshm...
[594] Solar – Ian McEwan 20 Aug 2013 | 06:12 am
” Beard comfortably shared all of humanity’s faults, and here he was, a monster of insincerity, cradling tenderly on his arm a woman he thought he might leave one day soon, listening to her with sensi...
[593] Golden Boy – Abigail Tarttelin 17 Aug 2013 | 01:17 am
” It’s not often that you really look at yourself, is it? It’s not often that you stare in a mirror. In the bathroom this morning I saw an androgynous fullness to my lips, a softness to the long slope...
Neither a Borrower 16 Aug 2013 | 03:40 am
I checked in at the Booking Through Thursday blog, which is the host for a weekly book meme or blogging prompt. Here is this week’s prompt: I’ve asked before how you feel about lending your books. I’...
Missing Parent 14 Aug 2013 | 01:23 am
After Maggie O’Farrell’s Instructions For A Heatwave, the story about how the missing patriarch in a family provokes self-examination on the part of every family member, I’m intrigued to find, in the ...
[592] The Why of Things – Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop 13 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am
” All that Sophie said in the note she left behind was that she loved them, and that she was sorry. But sorry isn’t good enough for Eve; sorry isn’t why. ” (Ch.3, p.111-112) Two inexplicable tragedie...
Tragedy and Comedy 11 Aug 2013 | 09:40 am
I checked in at the Booking Through Thursday blog, which is the host for a weekly book meme or blogging prompt. Here is this week’s prompt: All other things being equal (good writing, enthralling sto...
[591] The Gods of Heavenly Punishment – Jennifer Cody Epstein 9 Aug 2013 | 02:24 am
” To build new kitchens and garages, roads and cars and business connections until the old, war-torn city was no longer visible—any more than the broken people who had scraped out their lives there in...
