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Exit Lane

by Erika Veurink

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Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life

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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

by Pearl S. Buck

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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance said: " If I had to pick one book that has influenced my life more than any other, one book that touched my heart more than any other, one book that was the best novel I've ever read...I'd probably pick The Good Earth.

I first read this book when I was twelve If I had to pick one book that has influenced my life more than any other, one book that touched my heart more than any other, one book that was the best novel I've ever read...I'd probably pick The Good Earth.

I first read this book when I was twelve. My mom suggested it and found a copy for me to read.

“Then Wang Lung turned to the woman and looked at her for the first time. She had a square, honest face, a short, broad nose with large black nostrils, and her mouth was wide as a gash in her face. Her eyes were small and of a dull black in color, and were filled with some sadness that was not clearly expressed. It was a face that seemed habitually silent and unspeaking, as though it could not speak if it would. She bore patiently Wang Lung’s look, without embarrassment or response, simply waiting until he had seen her. He saw that it was true there was not beauty of any kind in her face—a brown, common, patient face. But there were no pock-marks on her dark skin, nor was her lip split. In her ears he saw his rings hanging, the gold-washed rings he had bought, and on her hands were the rings he had given her. He turned away with secret exultation. Well, he had his woman!”

O-lan's story was shocking to me. A woman who is hardworking and self-sacrificing to the extreme, and yet O-lan is always at the bottom, always the last to receive even the smallest of acknowledgments for anything she does. And the suffering O-lan experiences. It's heartbreaking. And it reminds me to appreciate the wonderful things in my own life that O-lan never got to enjoy.

The development of Wang Lung's character is slow but poignant, too.

“And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.”

Watching the sons of O-lan and Wang Lung change as the family acquired wealth...it was a cautionary tale. Inevitable, I think.

Such an amazing book. ...more "

Jun 25, 2025 06:52PM · see review

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Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner – The Acclaimed Novelist-Preacher on Imagination by Frederick Buechner

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the people you love have two sides to them. One is the side they love you back with, and the other is the side that, even when they do not mean to, they can sting you with like a wasp.

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

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