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"Really enjoyed this book and cherished the characters. The nostalgia hit hard for me, looking back on carefree times when the world felt so large. The reflections of age and the lived experience hit close to home. "
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Maybe I should sit with this book a while longer before writing a review, but here I am at the keyboard. Is this book good? Yes, it is. The first thing I'll say is that, for a poet, Lerner did a good job writing a novel that didn't get mired in poeti ...more |
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This Scorched Earth: A Novel of the Civil War and the American West:
"As with so many of Gear's novels, his work is richly descriptive and weaves an incredible story with a panoply of deeply human lessons for us to reflect on. Few modern authors can adequately deliver the anthropological insights as Gear does. The cult"
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| An excellent book, no doubt. The warning to Americans here is probably more relevant now that it was when the book was written. If I have an issue with Roth it's that when his narrator goes deep into the minds of the other characters in the book, he ...more | |
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| Debt is incredibly funny in a very bleak way, but Parrish keeps the balance skewed perfectly so the book never slides into a pit of dreary despair. It absolutely is asking moral questions in a modern context that if not immediately familiar to most r ...more | |
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“We wake up every morning thinking that the day we're about to live is going to be one kind of way. Like the days before it. One to shuffle in with all the rest. When we look back at our lives and all the things that we've done, there's a sad realization hat most days are entirely wiped from our memories. We know those days must have happened or else we wouldn't be where we are, but the substance of them is gone. Of a lifetime of conversations, only the sentiments remain. Specificity eroded down to a nub of ambiguity. On inspection, whole years are nothing but a vague sense built out of the moments that lasted. The moments that made a deeper imprint. Occasionally, the truly spectacular, but more often, the deeply embarrassing. The tragic. Then without realizing we invent material to fill the gaps. Words never said and actions never taken to add flourish or valor or meaning where likely there was none. Even my two years working at Saladas. Most of it is gone. Washed away by the repetition of it all.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
“No one here ever asks what I plan to do with my life. They only ever ask what I plan to do tonight.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
“We wake up every morning thinking that the day we're about to live is going to be one kind of way. Like the days before it. One to shuffle in with all the rest. When we look back at our lives and all the things that we've done, there's a sad realization hat most days are entirely wiped from our memories. We know those days must have happened or else we wouldn't be where we are, but the substance of them is gone. Of a lifetime of conversations, only the sentiments remain. Specificity eroded down to a nub of ambiguity. On inspection, whole years are nothing but a vague sense built out of the moments that lasted. The moments that made a deeper imprint. Occasionally, the truly spectacular, but more often, the deeply embarrassing. The tragic. Then without realizing we invent material to fill the gaps. Words never said and actions never taken to add flourish or valor or meaning where likely there was none. Even my two years working at Saladas. Most of it is gone. Washed away by the repetition of it all.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
“No one here ever asks what I plan to do with my life. They only ever ask what I plan to do tonight.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
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