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If I had written a review just after finishing this book, it would have been an entirely different review. Frankly, the stream of consciousness gets old after awhile. If you take the basic plot, though, it's a good story. Adultery. Unwed pregnancy an
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“A book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else's head. You see out of the world through somebody else's eyes. It's very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book by one of those people.”
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“Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.”
― The Memory of Blood
― The Memory of Blood
“Maybe it’s true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. But you’d go mad reading all of their rough drafts,”
― The Fracking King
― The Fracking King
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
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History is Not Boring
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Ask Helene Wecker - Tuesday, January 14th
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Join us for a special discussion with author Helene Wecker on Tuesday, January 14th! Helene will be discussing her book, The Golem and the Jinni, ...more
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