More like 3.5! Will be revisiting a few of these stories, like “Hands” & “The Untold Lie”
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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 Stranger: 4 stars
The Stranger by Albert Camus
L'Étranger (French: [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]) is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and outlook are often cited as …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Living Arctic: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Short Talks: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Autobiography of red: 4 stars
Autobiography of red by Anne Carson, Anne Carson
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a …
Review of 'Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Black Like Me: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated A Season in Hell: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated I shall not hate: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Am I disturbing you?: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Anne Hébert: 4 stars
Anne Hébert by Anne Hébert (New American translation series ;)
chianti_cimex_reads rated Hedda Gabler: 3 stars
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
"In 1890, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen completed Hedda Gabler, a play that questioned the role of women in Victorian society …
Review of 'Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Don’t bother with this one. Read “The Comanche Empire” by Pekka Hämäläinen instead.
chianti_cimex_reads rated O pioneers!: 2 stars
O pioneers! by Willa Cather (The World's best reading)
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." …