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Now it so happened that Mr. Jingle was walking in the garden close to the arbour at that moment. He too heard the shouts of 'Missus,' and stopped to hear more. There were three reasons for his doing so. In the first place, he was idle and
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“Part of jazz is the illusion of spontaneity and Monk played the piano as though he’d never seen one before.”
― But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
― But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
“because white men can’t police their imagination black people are dying”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“When she was widowed, there were still pleasing qualities in her, suitable for an unpretentious everyday life, and people sent matchmakers to her, but she declined any new matrimony and busied herself with the baking of savory pies.”
― The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories
― The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories
“He himself is almost a myth, and his story a legend. To tell about him, one should be French, because only the people of that nation manage to explain to others what they don’t understand themselves.”
― The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories
― The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories
“There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together; in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule.”
― The Odd Woman and the City
― The Odd Woman and the City
Colorado College Alumni Book Club
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Welcome to the Colorado College Alumni Book Club! Each quarter we will read and discuss a book by an alumnus or alumna author, CC faculty member, or v ...more
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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