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Atonement

by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 17, 2012 09:39PM

“I miss how Harriet was forever showing us how to read. How to look for shapes and layers. How to see that stories have a “meanwhile”—an important thing that’s happening while the rest of the story moves along.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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“Tomorrow, though: tomorrow was already a wonder-in-progress, a gift unwrapping,”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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“Harriet sits with my story for a few minutes, the way she sometimes did in Book Club. Let it settle first, she'd tell us. Let it settle before deciding what it's about.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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“I look like someone at a costume party who nobody can guess what they’re supposed to be.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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“I used to race through books one after another, but in Book Club Harriet taught us that when you slow down, you notice more, and when you notice more, you feel more. Reading one book makes it part of all the books you've ever read, Harriet said, so she was forever dragging other books into our discussions.

QUESTION: If Gatsby had a brother like Ethan Frome, would he have made the same mistakes?

QUESTION: If Frank and Zooey could speak from the Spoon River graveyard, which one would tell the story, which the "meanwhile"?”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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