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Tag Archives: Catch-22
“‘I thought 22 was a funnier number than 14.” – Robert Gottlieb, Simon & Schuster
Wonderful article about the well-known story of the naming of the book Catch-22. My favorite is that quote from editor Robert Gottlieb in the title line. He’s right, you know.
The Books: “Catch-22″ (Joseph Heller) Excerpt 6
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Sixth excerpt from Catch-22 – by Joseph Heller A beautiful and deep and funny excerpt. Yossarian emerges from the plane, covered in Snowden- who had died in the back. Yossarian is naked. He pretty much … Continue reading
The Books: “Catch-22″ (Joseph Heller) Excerpt 5
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Fifth excerpt from Catch-22– by Joseph Heller I don’t have a favorite section of this book – the entire thing is an assault, one I love – I just ride the wave when I read … Continue reading
The Books: “Catch-22″ (Joseph Heller) Excerpt 4
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Fourth excerpt from Catch-22 – by Joseph Heller The horrifying attack of Bologna hovers over much of this book like a spectre. Heller leaps around in time a bit – we’re before Bologna, we’re after … Continue reading
The Books: “Catch-22″ (Joseph Heller) Excerpt 2
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Catch-22 – by Joseph Heller Because I must. Because he makes me laugh out loud. Because I adore him and also because I fear him. Here is an excerpt involving Chief White Halfoat. He talks … Continue reading
The Books: “Catch-22″ (Joseph Heller)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Catch-22 – by Joseph Heller As per usual, I get a little bit nervous when I come to a book in my shelf that is this important to me. I was nervous when I came … Continue reading
Ten Books I Couldn’t Live Without
1. Possession – by A.S. Byatt. Like Heather I have read this book probably 4 or 5 times – I just finished it yet again, and every time I come to it – I see different things, I relate to … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Canada, Catch-22, Dubliners, Emily Climbs, England, Herman Melville, Hopeful Monsters, Ireland, Joseph Heller, L.M. Montgomery, Lives of the Saints, Madeleine L'Engle, Mating, Moby Dick, Nancy Lemann, Nicholas Mosley, Norman Rush, Paul Zindel, Possession, Ring of Endless Light, The Pigman
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alice in Wonderland, Amongst Women, Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, At Swim-Two-Birds, Atonement, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna O'Brien, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frankenstein, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, George Orwell, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, Handmaid's Tale, Herman Melville, House of Leaves, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, In Cold Blood, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Ellroy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Lord of the Rings, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mary Shelley, Master and Margarita, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes From the Underground, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Primo Levi, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen King, The Catcher In the Rye, The Country Girls, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Passion, The Shipping News, The Things They Carried, Thomas Mann, Tim O'Brien, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Ulysses, Underworld, Vladimir Nabokov, Wuthering Heights
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Cherished Objects
One of my more constant activities in my life is weeding through the stacks of books I own, and getting rid of non-essentials. You may be surprised at how difficult this is. I have to get into a very cold-hearted … Continue reading