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2026 update: Downgraded from four stars to three stars. (Original rating based on much-earlier reading and was added as one of the many books I rated when I first joined Goodreads.) The Big Sleep, written in 1939, is best consumed with a whiskey and a ...more |
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| I enjoyed Whistler from front to back, inhaling it in just two days. It is the story of two sisters, their mother, and her three husbands, and the resulting total is so much more than the constituent parts. While there isn't much of a plot — at least ...more | |
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"There may be no better pairing of critic and author than Nabokov and Gogol. Perhaps Johnson and Shakespeare. Nabokov's criticism is every bit as sonorous as it is insightful. We learn a great deal of Gogol, but we are never in any doubt that we are s"
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"As with The Tempest, this was a reread for a project I'm writing. Othello doesn't rank as one of my favorite of WS's plays, but it may contain Shakespeare's most enigmatic and compelling villains. Iago's machinations, seemingly without motivation, al"
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds:
"This was more of a book about the people who study owls and less about the actual owls, I assume because we don't actually know enough about owls to fill a book. Also, it was kind of dull. Like stuck in school on a beautiful day dull."
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| Cool Machine is a love letter to a gorgeous, raw, flawed, complex New York City and all its inhabitants, particularly those who lived there through the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. That's not me, but it didn't prevent me from loving every part of this conc ...more | |
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| Country People isn't Daniel Mason's best, but it is a gem. It follows a California couple and their two kids as they relocate for a year to a small town in Vermont. Mason keeps the quirky small-town neighbors coming but stops short of overwhelming th ...more | |
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“Its hold was loaded with coffee, rice, tea, oil seeds and jute. Black smoke poured from its one stack, darkening the hot cloudless sky. Alexander”
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