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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
Feel bad because so many people loved this but it just couldn't hold my attention somehow.
Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
"Deets, the black man, seeing Pea Eye try to inspect the hooves in the dark, brought him a light and stayed with him while he went down the line of horses, picking up their hooves one by one. It was a kind thing, which Pea Eye never forgot. Most of the men stayed as close to the fire as they could get, but Deets left the warmth and came to help him make sure that the horses' feet were sound." p. 85
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
"All his work, and it hadn't saved anyone, or slowed the moment of their going by a minute."
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
Might revisit this one day if I feel like reading it but fantasy isn't really my genre and I've got so much I want to read.
What I read of it was fun though!
What I read of it was fun though!
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Shukhov ate his bread down to his very fingers, keeping only a little bit of bare crust, the half-moon-shaped top of the loaf- because no spoon is as good for scraping a bowl of porridge clean as a bread-crust. He wrapped the crust in his cloth again and slipped it into his inside pocket for dinner, buttoned himself up against the cold and prepared for work. Let them send him out now! Though of course, it would be better if they'd wait a bit longer." P. 45
The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
"I was bewildered, in shock. What an intense feeling shock is. A thought that consumes itself because of excessive tension." p. 328
Excellent book about memory, trauma, and trying to escape a patriarchal father. A portrait of a disapointed artist, Italy, and the way that abuse passes down through generations.
I was gripped from the first page to the last.
Excellent book about memory, trauma, and trying to escape a patriarchal father. A portrait of a disapointed artist, Italy, and the way that abuse passes down through generations.
I was gripped from the first page to the last.
Walking Practice by Dolki Min
Fun and unique book that I read in a sitting although I can't say it'll leave much of an impression on me.
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
"After a few months she left off speculating about the villagers. She admitted that there was something about them which she could not fathom, but she was content to remain outside the secret, whatever it was. She had not come to Great Mop to concern herself with the hearts of men. Let her stray up the valleys, and rest in the leafless woods that looked so warm with their core of fallen red leaves, and find out her own secret, if she had one; with autumn it might come back to question her. She wondered. She thought not. She felt that nothing could ever again disturb her peace. Wherever she strayed the hills folded themselves round her like the fingers of a hand." p.84