June 2012
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Book Review- To Have and To Hold
I’m not the biggest fan of the “chick” genre (mostly because I find the word quite demeaning), but every once in a while, I like to switch my brain off and enjoy a popular chick flick or chick lit book. On a bad day, there’s nothing quite like watching Mean Girls for the umpteenth time, amiright?
I picked up Jane Green’s To Have and To Hold at a bookstore,...
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“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t...”
– Tim O’Brien (The Things They Carried)
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Book Review- Freedom
@elascalza gave me this book and really, I cannot thank her enough.
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom is one of those rare books that’s a total game changer; eloquent, precise, and merciless in its portrayals, it reveals human suffering, joy, and motivation in full force. The story follows the lives of the Berglund family, composed of Walter, a liberal environmentalist and all round nice...
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It’s always the good books that leave me stunned, slightly breathless and with tears in my eyes.
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“Lord! When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper...”
– Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels. Epigraph from The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall (via epigraphic)
“I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, in the New York Times Book Review (via vikingpenguinbooks)
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“Everyone looked radiantly better adjusted than she was feeling.”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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all-my-dreams-limitless:
Do you ever get the feeling, when you haven’t read one of your favorite books after a while, that you just miss the characters like you’d miss your closest friends? That’s why, in spite of the sheer number of books in the world that I have yet to read, I still re-read the ones closest to my heart.
Story of my LIFE.
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Book Review- Little Men
A sequel to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Little Men is a novel rich in the author’s characteristic themes of innocence, love, integrity, and family values.
The book revolves around Plumfield, the progressive school started by Professor Bhaer and his wife, Jo (the second of the March sisters). As in Little Women, much of the storyline consists of the antics of the children, and...
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Book Review- Everything I Never Wanted to Be
Yet another one of those books that I discovered only because its Kindle edition was available for free on Amazon. Dina Kucera’s Everything I Never Wanted has relatively high ratings and good reviews, and since the dark world of addiction fascinates me, I decided it was worth a try.
Now, for the facts-Kucera’s autobiographical novel is a jarring, unapologetic look into a world that...
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Book Review- Little Women
This was one of my favourite books when I was younger, and I decided (rather listlessly) to reread it recently when I found the ebook for free on Amazon. I was apprehensive that time might have dulled the charm this story held for me when I was eleven.
I was wrong. Oh so wrong.
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, based loosely on the author’s own life, is the charming tale of a...
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“With Jo, brain developed earlier than heart, and she preferred imaginary heroes...”
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (via quietontheinside)
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Book Review- A Beautiful Mind
I watched the movie A Beautiful Mind many years ago, but even my love for Russell Crowe cannot change the fact that this biography is far, far superior to its cinematic version. In my opinion, this is true for all books and their corresponding films, but in this case it is even more so.
The novel opens with the childhood of John Forbes Nash, an introverted, eccentric mathematician who achieved...
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“She believed that by giving problems a name they tended to manifest themselves,...”
– Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
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Book Review- The House of the Spirits
This book was my first foray into the writings of Isabel Allende. I’d always heard a lot about her, and I’m now sorry that it took me this long to discover her books!
The House of the Spirits is arguably Allende’s most famous work, and with good reason. This novel (which has little to do with either a house or spirits, despite its title) is set in South America, where the...
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Book Review- The Other Boleyn Girl
If, like me, you’re fascinated by history and historical fiction, this is the book for you! Philippa Gregory constructs an intricate web of scandal, deceit, loyalty, and politics within the factual framework of a fascinating period in English history. The Other Boleyn Girl is an excellent portrayal of one of the tumultuous reign of King Henry VIII. Under his direction, the English Court...
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