Sally Smith
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"Oh, what a glorious book. I adored Tom’s previous, equally idiosyncratic novel Villager, and was looking forward to this immensely.
Eric, approaching 70, spends his time buying and selling vintage vinyl and walking the green woods and hills of south w" Read more of this review » |
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I've never read a book of Tom's (fiction or non-fiction) that I haven't loved, and this is no exception. It's a few years in the life of a man who has cats, including the incomparable The Bear. Plus many amusing observations of rural and small-town E ...more |
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“We’ve been paying a fraction of what things really cost to make, but meanwhile the planet, and the workers who made the stuff, take the unpaid costs right in the teeth.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother", everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...”
― Carpe Jugulum
― Carpe Jugulum
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.”
― Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
― Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights





























