Wish O’Connor had been taken to task on her racism more in this. An alright biography but that omission made it feel a bit hollow.
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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 Nationalism, colonialism, and literature: 3 stars
Review of 'The terrible speed of mercy' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Saddest Words: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Galatea: 3 stars
Madeline Miller: Galatea (2013, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
Galatea by Madeline Miller
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Moby-Dick: 3 stars
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (2003, Dover Publications)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Dover giant thrift editions)
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Sand and Foam (Kahlil Gibran Pocket Library): 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated We: A Novel of the Future: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Sexing the Cherry: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Bhagavad Gita: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Prince: 2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: 3 stars
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Gilead: 2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Representations of the Intellectual: 3 stars
Representations of the Intellectual by Edward W. Said
Celebrated humanist, teacher, and scholar, Edward W. Said here examines the ever-changing role of the intellectual today. In these six …
