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Mark Scheel
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Hemingway, Salinger, Steinbeck, Capote.
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"Although the text is only a bit over 300 words, this was an incredibly busy book to read. The book opens during WWII, from years 1942 to 1944. The men on the American home front suffer for those who've gone missing in action. There are foreigners lik"
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"This is a strong issue. It is filled with lamentations: to dead parents; to our burning world; and to human failings and fragilities, more generally. Standout contributions include: “Interstate” by Meghan O’Rourke; “BloodSlow Riot” by Aaron Coleman; "
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Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
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Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman:
"Naula O'Faolain died in 2008 from cancer of the brain, lungs, and liver (mainly due to chain smoking): a sad way to go. Frank McCourt gave her a very warm review. But as I read along (I did read more than half the book), I got a bit tired of the repe"
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"I admit I’m a bit partial to William Trowbridge’s poetry. I probably have all of his books now and often hear him reading at The Writers Place here in Kansas City. But it’s the original, quirky, funny, sometimes sad, too, way he looks at the world in"
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Well, I admire you for sticking with it and then warning the rest of us!
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Thank you, Maryfrances, for saving me from a disappointing read.
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Wishing you luck! BTW, did you get my message on your website?
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| Finding Strength is an apt title describing what the main character, a 17-year-old girl, must achieve being faced with numerous challenges that would perplex even most adults. The historical setting of the Midwest in the late 1800s is meticulously re ...more | |
“War is the most complex, physically and morally demanding enterprise we undertake. No great art or music, no cathedral or temple or mosque, no intercontinental transport net or particle collider or space programme, no research for a cure for a mass-killing disease receives a fraction of the resources and effort we devote to making war. Or to recovery from war and preparations for future wars invested over years, even decades, of tentative peace.”
― The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
― The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
“The problem with the world is not that there is evil. The problem with the world is that there is evil that people think is good.”
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