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| Suggestions: April 2010 Book of the Month You know what to do. ![]()
__________________ " Reality is relative.Devils,evil spirits,witches and so on became real enough to the people who believed in them.Just as God is to the people that believe in Him.When people live their lives by their beliefs,objective reality is almost irrelevant..." Chocky, John Wyndham |
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| I'd like to go back to some of the great novels. Here are five I suggested in 2008: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James |
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| The Poe Shadow, by Matthew Pearl
__________________ "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe |
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| I would also like to read "The Age Of Innocence", since I already own it...
__________________ "A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Cicero |
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| I shall be seconding The Age of Innocence.
__________________ Sheep go to heaven. Goats go to hell. |
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| Do we all agree The Age of Innocence for April?
__________________ " Reality is relative.Devils,evil spirits,witches and so on became real enough to the people who believed in them.Just as God is to the people that believe in Him.When people live their lives by their beliefs,objective reality is almost irrelevant..." Chocky, John Wyndham |
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| I agree.
__________________ "A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Cicero |
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| Sounds good to me. I will give it a shot!
__________________ "Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero." - Horace |
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| I'm in! |
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| Good, finally a book I own! I almost bought Three Cups of Tea thinking it was Book of the Month for March but then I remembered the elephants... I think I need to start writing things down ![]()
__________________ "Reading novels is a deep and singular pleasure, a gripping and mysterious human activity that does not require any more moral or political justification than sex." Philip Roth |
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__________________ " Reality is relative.Devils,evil spirits,witches and so on became real enough to the people who believed in them.Just as God is to the people that believe in Him.When people live their lives by their beliefs,objective reality is almost irrelevant..." Chocky, John Wyndham |
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