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𝐀 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞, 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐲! "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚'𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏. 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒔." Back in 1999, when I first read The God of Small ...more |
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For the love of words! A slow-paced, well-researched, and beautifully crafted novel that speaks about etymology of words, and the people who love them—some visible, many invisible; some celebrated, others faded into oblivion. I loved the way how Esme ...more |
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𝗔𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. The Mermaid Chair begins as a story of the mundane, about the midlife crisis when people overlook what they have in hand and go around chasing mythical ge ...more |
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This is another novel from Sue Monk Kidd that I intentionally slowed down to read. 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥—𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞. Every written sentence (except for two: see below) flourishes as if they were cultivated by the autho ...more |
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𝑬𝒅𝒈𝒂𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. This is the story of half-Apache, half-White Edgar. It's fun at times, painful otherwise, as Brady Udall takes us through the everyday st ...more |
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| Vernon God Little found me (yes, it came buried under a hundreds used books) at a crucial point in my life, like a miracle. I was half through with Saint Richard Parker, where I used first person POV in present tense, employing an absurdist tone. Tho ...more | |
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There has been much confusion about what Saint Richard Parker is about. Here comes the author’s perspective. 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆. This is a satirical take on the maladies of South and Southea ...more |
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This is another novel from Sue Monk Kidd that I intentionally slowed down to read. 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥—𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞. Every written sentence (except for two: see below) flourishes as if they were cultivated by the autho ...more |
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“The most beautiful things in life are unassuming and simple to begin with.”
― A Dowryless Wedding
― A Dowryless Wedding
“To you, the beautiful human in you, who, like everybody else on this planet, is on an everyday struggle to love and be loved. I hope you find the love, happiness, and enlightenment you have been looking for, in you, in your backyard, in your wretched little neighborhood.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“Let your ego go . . . This is how the world is. Everyone chases love, but very few recognize it. Because to love unconditionally is the toughest task on earth. Learn to accept it.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“Buccal list: A list of food a person has never tried before but wants to taste during their lifetime.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“If you had closed your eyes and looked inward, you would have seen me; you would have seen us. We have always been inseparable, like night and day, light and dark, flowers and fruits, and spirituality and sexuality.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“Swim, crawl, stagger, walk, bend, stagger and gone – that’s life in simple terms, and all that matters here is how well we fought.”
― A Dowryless Wedding
― A Dowryless Wedding
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