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Montreal - looking for the catharsis that comes from reading finely crafted sentences, and to get in closer touch with a higher power of my understanding
"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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chianti_cimex_reads rated The Trouble with Islam: 2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Catcher in the Rye: 2 stars

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New …
chianti_cimex_reads rated She had some horses: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Epic of Gilgamesh: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Gardener's son: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Sound and the Fury: 2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Universal Harvester: 2 stars

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
"The second novel from the author of Wolf in White Van, inspired by his years living in a small town …
chianti_cimex_reads rated A Poetry Handbook: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Notes from underground: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Frood: 3 stars

The Frood by Douglas Adams, Jem Roberts
'Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.' (Sass: know, be …
chianti_cimex_reads rated White Fang (Aladdin Classics): 2 stars

White Fang (Aladdin Classics) by Jack London
The story of a wolf/dog cross, who is raised by Indians, and becomes a deadly fighter.
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Sun Also Rises: 2 stars

Canto General, 50th Anniversary Edition (Latin American Literature and Culture, 7) by Pablo Neruda
"The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic …