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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22% complete! chianti_cimex_reads has read 11 of 50 books.
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chianti_cimex_reads rated FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: 4 stars
Ernest Hemingway: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (1976, GRAFTON BOOKS)
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Sacred and the Profane: 3 stars
Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Poisonwood Bible: 3 stars
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist …
chianti_cimex_reads rated How Europe underdeveloped Africa: 3 stars
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 …
