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Evan is Currently Reading

Evan Beazley is currently reading

The Two Towers: The Lord of the Rings: Part II

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Jul 10, 2024 03:57AM

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In the Upper Country

by Kai Thomas

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Oct 05, 2023 09:19AM

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Desert Oracle

by Ken Layne

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Sep 11, 2023 05:18AM

“I think about how much of a good story seems to happen elsewhere, off the canvas or screen or page, in Europe or a backwater New Brunswick town, in what is left unsaid. A word on the tip of the tongue, ungraspable. The teasing smush of a feather boa over naked breasts in a striptease.”
― Lisa Moore, Open: Stories

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“I could see my mother's beater Chevy way down below in the parking lot and I pushed the green button on her automatic starter to see how far away I could be from something to make it come to life. Nothing happened, no lights came on.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

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“Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

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“Truth: I'd rather leave it
to chaos, nature's oddball math;
why try drunk punching through
a losing brawl?”
― Danny Jacobs, Songs That Remind Us of Factories

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“La literatura se parece mucho a la pelea de los samuráis, pero un samurái no pelea contra otro samurái: pelea contra un monstruo. Generalmente sabe, además, que va a ser derrotado. Tener el valor, sabiendo previamente que vas a ser derrotado, y salir a pelear: eso es la literatura.”
― Roberto Bolaño

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