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The Iliad
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by Homer
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"This newest translation got my attention. I've tried two others, never finished. Here's hoping...
The book itself is maybe the nicest book I own! Norton had A LOT of confidence in it! It's gorgeous!"
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Happier Here With...
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by Amy Gail Hansen (Goodreads Author)
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Book cover for Brideshead Revisited
Its theme—the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters—was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.
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Gabrielle Zevin
“How about I tell you what I don't like? I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be - basically gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mashups a la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and cross breeding rarely results in anything satisfying... I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred and fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and - I imagine this goes without saying - vampires.”
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Gabrielle Zevin
“...she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows”
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Gabrielle Zevin
“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
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Gabrielle Zevin
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
We are not quite novels.

The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
In the end, we are collected works.
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“We are not quite novels.
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

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