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Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is starting How to Be Both
It's early 2019, and I already know that Ali Smith is one of my great discoveries this year. Of course, you all already know her, but I'm late to the game.

This books stunned me. A gorgeous walk through the rivers of gender, time, art, and sight.
Jan 31, 2019 03:52AM Add a comment
How to Be Both

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 24 of 91 of On Being Blue
""There are a number of difficulties with dirty words, the first of which is that there aren't nearly enough of them; the second is that the people who use them are normally numskulls and prudes; the third is that in general they're not at all sexy, and the main reason for this is that no one loves them enough."
Sep 02, 2016 11:06AM Add a comment
On Being Blue

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 91 of 182 of Trois contes
Un Coeur Simple is a strange-beautiful story.
Nov 21, 2015 02:10AM Add a comment
Trois contes

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Carrie Chappell is on page 106 of 336 of Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
"In the fog of flattery, he lost sight of the fact that goats and peasants are seldom the helms of empire."
Aug 07, 2015 06:13AM Add a comment
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

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Carrie Chappell is on page 343 of 455 of The Discovery of France
"There are Bretons still alive who remember the mortifying difficulty of learning French—'a language whose words were like half-empty boxes, and you weren't even quite sure what was inside them'—and the endless insults from sneering teachers and patronizing newspaper articles."
Jul 19, 2015 08:20AM Add a comment
The Discovery of France

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 206 of 455 of The Discovery of France
"The 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees defined the frontier between France and Spain as 'the crest of the Pyrenees', but more than two centuries passed before the snowy battlements were measured accurately and the people of the high Pyrenees found out whether they were Spanish or French."
Jul 03, 2015 01:40PM Add a comment
The Discovery of France

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 140 of 455 of The Discovery of France
"The usual speed for an earth-shattering piece of news travelling over a hundred miles was between 4 and 7 mph. Le Havre heard about the fall of the Bastille (late afternoon, 14 July 1789) in the early hours of 17 July."
Jun 19, 2015 03:21AM Add a comment
The Discovery of France

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 106 of 455 of The Discovery of France
"In a rare surviving love note, written on a postcard in the 1900s in almost indecipherable spelling, a Vendée peasant told his fiancée, 'You're so fresh and lovely the only thing I can compare you to is fields of young cabbages before the caterpillars have got to them.'"
Jun 11, 2015 05:46AM Add a comment
The Discovery of France

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 99 of 558 of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
mccullough's ability to create historical narrative is wonderful. my proof is in my disturbance--my new fear of cholera!
Aug 08, 2014 08:49AM Add a comment
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 30 of 71 of End of the Sentimental Journey (Infidel Poetics, 1)
I've already become really taken with this book. Poets, I think you should read it. But probably every writer should.
Feb 04, 2014 11:02AM Add a comment
End of the Sentimental Journey (Infidel Poetics, 1)

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 230 of 361 of Lookaway, Lookaway
I don't know about this book yet...
Jan 13, 2014 09:26AM Add a comment
Lookaway, Lookaway

Carrie Chappell
Carrie Chappell is on page 80 of 256 of Men We Reaped: A Memoir
It's so beautiful and so crushing, thus far.
Dec 22, 2013 08:15AM Add a comment
Men We Reaped: A Memoir

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