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From Nicole Krauss: The History of Love

Far off, in his perch in the trees, Kafka listened to it all: the rustle of clothes being dropped to the floor, of lips fluttering along naked shoulders, beds creaking under the weight of tenderness. It all caught in the delicate pointed shells of his ears and rolled like pinballs through the great hall ( Read more... )

Finished On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (in under 24 hours - highly recommend this if you need a light, but not topically light, read).

I usually mark passages which speak to me, but I slammed through this so quickly I didn't really pause(read it in maybe 3 sittings). So this was pulled, semi-randomly.

She turned back to him. "I was curous ( Read more... )

It has been pointed out to me that my reading has slacked off severely...since arriving in NC most likely (ending my daliance with the Liberal Arts Masters program in FL). My ahem, esteemed Cul De Sac has started a book club - led by a woman with decent reading chops (volunteers with our local Library branch). So far we have read Interpreter of ( Read more... )

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Summer, Edith Wharton

Even the feeling of the ring on her hand had not brought her this sharp sense of the irretrievable. For an instant the old impulse of flight swept through her; but it was only the lift of a broken wing.
- page 198

New Yorker: March 9, 2009 by D.T. Max - David Foster Wallace

His goal had been to show readers how to live a fulfilled, meaningful life. "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being." he once said. Good writing should help readers to "become less alone inside."....[yet] he could not be a realist. The approach was "too familiar and ( Read more... )

Cormac McCarthy's The Road

They plodded on, thin and filthy as street addicts. Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breah smoking, shuffling through the back and silky drifts. They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. Houses or barns or ( Read more... )

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