DNF - page 304. Might come back to this one. Might not.
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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 A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk: 3 stars
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chianti_cimex_reads rated Consecrated ground: 3 stars
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chianti_cimex_reads rated The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Men in the sun, and other Palestinian stories: 3 stars
Ghassan Kanafani: Men in the sun, and other Palestinian stories (1978, Heinemann Educational (etc.))
Men in the sun, and other Palestinian stories by Ghassan Kanafani (Arab authors -- 11)
Il maturo Abu Qais, il giovane Asad e il ragazzo Marwàn, fuggiaschi dai campi profughi palestinesi, attraversano l'inferno del deserto …
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Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than …
Review of 'Sula' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Favourite Morrison so far. A tight novella jam packed with ideas, which I am excited to return to on an eventual second read.
chianti_cimex_reads rated Upstream: 4 stars
Upstream by Mary Oliver
"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Fathers and crows: 5 stars
William T. Vollmann: Fathers and crows (1993, Penguin Books)
Fathers and crows by William T. Vollmann (Seven dreams -- v. 2.)
chianti_cimex_reads rated Survival: 3 stars
Survival by Margaret Atwood
"'Survival' is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is ... a book of criticism, a manifesto, …
chianti_cimex_reads rated All manner of misunderstanding: 2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Jungle: 3 stars
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (Signet Classics)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the …
