October 30, 2014

Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon.

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Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert "Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, sh...
October 19, 2014

And sometimes during my waking hours I think, wouldn't it be something if this life was just a dream too?

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This Is Where I Leave You By Jonathan Tropper I was not expecting this book to be so, so funny & it's the first in a long while...
October 10, 2014

"If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else."

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Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout "Oh, Winnie," Julie said. But she was squinting at her baby finger, and then she unscrew...
October 08, 2014

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful?

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Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout "There was a beauty to that autumn air, and the sweaty young bodies that had mud on their leg...

She had forgotten how angelic he'd looked, like some creature newly hatched, as though he had not yet grown a skin and was all light and luminescence.

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Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout I finished the book and I finished the miniseries. Both (IMO) very much worth reading and seeing. ...
September 27, 2014

Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

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Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout The adaptation of this book is coming to HBO as a four-part miniseries in November. I watched the ...
September 21, 2014

But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers ... it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped.

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In Cold Blood By Truman Capote Chilling, sad, disturbing. People like Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith still exist today...