February 2011
20 posts
“After an hour his hands were scraped and there was a shooting pain in his...”
– Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
January 2011
11 posts
“I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later...”
– Helen Dewitt, The Last Samurai
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“[She] flitted in and out of the Public Library with the air of conscientiously...”
– The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
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“To be in truth literary had ever been her dearest thought, the thought that kept...”
– The Wings of the Dove, Henry James. I adore this sentence and have no idea what nippers are.
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“They could think whatever they liked about whatever they would — in other...”
– Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
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December reads
Peace out, 2010.
December was full of male novelists:
1. A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
2. White Noise, Don DeLillo
3. Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
4. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Gary Shteyngart
5. Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
6. A Ship Made of Paper, Scott Spencer
7. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
8. Home Land, Sam Lipsyte
I’ll sneak in an 8.5, Open Secrets by Alice...