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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.86 — 268,365 ratings — published 2008
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,029,183 ratings — published 1992
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,098,924 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,425,466 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,867,847 ratings — published 2018
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 360,219 ratings — published 1989
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 611,353 ratings — published 2014
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,222,263 ratings — published 1963
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.28 — 928,105 ratings — published 2015
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,213,702 ratings — published 2012
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.10 — 425,755 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.67 — 373,994 ratings — published 2016
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,850,994 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,629,002 ratings — published 2018
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.60 — 564,426 ratings — published 2018
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.56 — 129,622 ratings — published 2015
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.32 — 667,376 ratings — published 2016
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,895,209 ratings — published 1951
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,040,881 ratings — published 2013
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,919,351 ratings — published 1925
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,890,167 ratings — published 1818
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.81 — 341,117 ratings — published 2024
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.47 — 794,388 ratings — published 2022
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,348,616 ratings — published 2018
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,354,639 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,313,385 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.12 — 855,432 ratings — published 2020
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.65 — 382,166 ratings — published 2007
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.78 — 356,817 ratings — published 1925
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,597,865 ratings — published 2003
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 295,864 ratings — published 1962
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 945,985 ratings — published 1955
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,402,369 ratings — published 1942
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,048 ratings — published 2003
Annie Bot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 67,607 ratings — published 2024
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.17 — 229,318 ratings — published 1864
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,459,692 ratings — published 2020
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.99 — 178,389 ratings — published 2020
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,448,570 ratings — published 2012
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 468,608 ratings — published 2011
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 599,183 ratings — published 2012
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 835,135 ratings — published 2010
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,028,196 ratings — published 2024
The Librarianist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.41 — 23,944 ratings — published 2023
The Guest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.27 — 114,429 ratings — published 2023
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.09 — 729,711 ratings — published 1966
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.94 — 155,210 ratings — published 2009
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.35 — 249,170 ratings — published 1965
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.29 — 597,046 ratings — published 2016
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.18 — 137,464 ratings — published 1983
“This strong and rough man, whose feathers were constantly being ruffled, had suddenly softened and brightened. Something unusual and entirely unexpected had begun to stir in his soul. Three years of separation, three years of a broken marriage had dislodged nothing from his heart. And perhaps every day of those three years he had dreamed of her, of the beloved being who had once said 'I love you' to him. Knowing Shatov, I can say for certain that he would never have allowed himself even to dream that any woman could say 'I love you' to him. He was fiercely chaste and modest, regarded himself as a dreadful freak, hated his own face and character, compared himself to some monster who was fit only to be taken around and exhibited at fairs. As a consequence of all this, he valued honesty above all things and dedicated himself to his convictions to the point of fanaticism; he was sullen, proud, quick to anger and sparing with words. But now this single being who had loved him for two weeks (he had always, always believed that!), this being whom he had always regarded as immeasurably superior to himself despite his utterly sober understanding of her faults; this being whom he could forgive everything, everything (of which there really true, so that in his eyes he himself was guilty of everything could be absolutely no before her), this woman, this Marya Shatova, was suddenly question, for just the opposite was actual again in his house, before him again... this was almost impossible to understand!”
― Demons
― Demons
“The Peacock & The Eagle: Cleopatra's Entry Into Tarsus by Stewart Stafford
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
