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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Four-and-a-half books

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 I've been doing a lot of hand sewing and organizing, and so there has been plenty of time for listening to books. It is always a strugg...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

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“To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, n...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Go With Me by Castle Freeman, Jr.

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"Why?" she asked. "Why should I sit down? You're telling me you can't do anything. You're telling me I have to wa...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

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 “This was real life, but bigger than real life. This was hyper-real. Her husband may have killed a bad man. And if that bad man really was ...
Monday, October 30, 2023

The Palisades by Gail Lynn Hanson

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Esther's breath quickened. Ruth removed her hand because she was never sure how people felt about touch. A light brush could agonize, wh...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Quantum Reaction by Marc Wayne

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Not that she believed QuantiPort had Installed protective iron spikes to guard their ramparts, but old habits died hard. Trusting someone el...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The Bridge on Beer River by Terry Tierney

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Making love near nutated African violets on the last day of the world was a possibility we never discussed. - Terry Tierney, The Bridge on B...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Guests on Earth by Lee Smith

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“The insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.” -F. Scott Fitzgeral...