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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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22% complete! chianti_cimex_reads has read 11 of 50 books.
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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 …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Fences: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated We Should All Be Feminists: 3 stars
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of …
chianti_cimex_reads rated What Is Anarchism?: 3 stars
What Is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman (Working Classics, 1)
chianti_cimex_reads rated Grapefruit: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Bluest Eye: 4 stars
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Written on the Body: 4 stars
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
"The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Child of God: 3 stars
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Call of the Wild: 3 stars
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, …
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis #1-2) by Marjane Satrapi
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Hobbit (Collins Modern Classics): 3 stars
The Hobbit (Collins Modern Classics) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Life of Pi: 3 stars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only …