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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 George Orwell's 1984: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated American Hardcore: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Of Mice and Men: 3 stars
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Venus in the Blind Spot: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Break: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated milk and honey: 3 stars
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
The book is divided into four chapters, each chapter serves a different purpose. They deal with different pains; heal different …
chianti_cimex_reads rated A History of My Brief Body: 3 stars
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Road: 4 stars
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Oprah's Book Club (57))
The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive.
A father and his son walk alone through …
chianti_cimex_reads rated All the Pretty Horses: 5 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The War of the Worlds: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Outer Dark: 5 stars
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Persepolis: 5 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The great god Pan: 3 stars
The great god Pan by Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen's first book, THE GREAT GOD PAN, published in 1894, is still one of the greatest works of weird …