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Sunday Sentence: The Signature of All Things

September 29, 2013

signature of all things

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent—and working at a pace so slow—that I would be able to hear myself living.     ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Enon

September 15, 2013

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.     ...I deliberately found the thickest novels I could, for the pleasure of lingering in other worlds and other people's lives for as long as possible. -Enon by Paul Harding ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: The Perfume Collector

September 8, 2013

Perfume Collector

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   “It’s a tango don’t you find? Sometimes dramatic, sometimes quiet, but always with a few good hard slaps thrown in.”      -Madame Zed describing fate ... Read More...

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Waiting on Wednesday: Mrs. Poe

September 4, 2013

Mrs Poe

Waiting On Wednesday (WOW) is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights an upcoming release I'm eagerly anticipating at The Gilmore Guide to Books.   Goodreads says: A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe—at the same time she becomes the unwilling confidante of his much-younger wife. It is ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Living Beautifully

September 1, 2013

Living Beautifully

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. What the fundamental ambiguity of being human points out is that as much as we want to, we can never say, “This is the only true way. This is how it is. End of discussion.”  ... Read More...

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Waiting on Wednesday: Mother Mother

August 28, 2013

Waiting On Wednesday (WOW) is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights an upcoming release I'm eagerly anticipating at The Gilmore Guide to Books.   This week it's Mother Mother by Koren Zailckas. Release date is September 17th.   From Goodreads: Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly ... Read More...

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