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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 Lost Memory of Skin: 3 stars
The Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
This is a novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results. Suspended in …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Saga: Volume Three: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Colonizer and the Colonized: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The prophet: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The time machine: 3 stars
The time machine by H. G. Wells (The Modern Library classics)
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Paying the land: 4 stars
Paying the land by Joe Sacco
In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Hellbound Heart: 3 stars
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
From his Books of Blood to The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, and The Great and Secret Show, to scores of short …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Cities of the Plain: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Role models: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Outlander: 2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Siddhartha: 4 stars
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] (listen)) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: 3 stars
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 non-fiction book by American …