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John P. Asling
Goodreads Author
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in Toronto, Canada
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John Steinbeck, Morley Callaghan, Marilynne Robinson, Margaret Laurenc
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December 2017
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Time Enough for Sadness
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Love After Love Has Failed
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A Crack in Everything: Short Stories. Tales of hope and despair, regret and redemption
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Love After Love Has Failed
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My Year of Reading - 2024
You know that question they ask at the end of those literary interviews: ‘What book are you ashamed to have never read?’
Are you troubled by it? I’m not, really, though I admit I haven’t read classics such as Animal Farm or Moby Dick. However, I have ploughed through James Joyce’s Ulysses and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, behemoths that have defeated some very big readers I know. (Both are Read more of this blog post »
Are you troubled by it? I’m not, really, though I admit I haven’t read classics such as Animal Farm or Moby Dick. However, I have ploughed through James Joyce’s Ulysses and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, behemoths that have defeated some very big readers I know. (Both are Read more of this blog post »
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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
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A Different Drummer
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Just finished A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley. I enjoyed the structural creativity, different points of view, but it felt a bit wishy was
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| I just want to say this: having read Native Son a while ago - a phenomenal read - I wanted to get further inside Richard Wright's head and heart. Black Boy takes me there. Growing up hungry for food, freedom and books, Wright, among so many accomplis ...more | |
“It will all be wildly insane.
And friends will say, Not again!
But our walking will be like praying –
for new chapters, love,
after love had failed.”
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And friends will say, Not again!
But our walking will be like praying –
for new chapters, love,
after love had failed.”
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“It will all be wildly insane.
And friends will say, Not again!
But our walking will be like praying –
for new chapters, love,
after love had failed.'
From Walking With You at 7 a.m.
John P. Asling”
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And friends will say, Not again!
But our walking will be like praying –
for new chapters, love,
after love had failed.'
From Walking With You at 7 a.m.
John P. Asling”
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