DNF - page 304. Might come back to this one. Might not.
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"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 Rabbit redux: 3 stars
Rabbit redux by John Updike
353 p. ; 22 cm
chianti_cimex_reads rated Kamouraska: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Rubaiyat: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Half of a Yellow Sun: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Mysteries: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Consecrated ground: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Dubliners: 3 stars
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 …
Review of "Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 6-Book Boxed Set : Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse" on 'Goodreads'
chianti_cimex_reads reviewed Sula by Toni Morrison (Oprah's Book Club (46))
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)