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Tag Archives: Cat’s Eye
The Books: “Cat’s Eye” (Margaret Atwood)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Here is my last excerpt from Cat’s Eye – by Margaret Atwood. So much of this book has come back to me in the past week doing these excerpts – the detail, the sweep and … Continue reading
The Books: “Cat’s Eye” (Margaret Atwood)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Here is a fourth excerpt from Cat’s Eye – by Margaret Atwood. Even just flipping through this book right now makes me feel creepy – I haven’t read it in years. It’s all coming back … Continue reading
The Books: “Cat’s Eye” (Margaret Atwood)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Here is a third excerpt from Cat’s Eye – by Margaret Atwood. Shivers. This section gives me shivers. I honestly don’t know if I need to read this book again, even though I keep thinking … Continue reading
The Books: “Cat’s Eye” (Margaret Atwood)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Here is a second excerpt from Cat’s Eye – by Margaret Atwood. Grace Smeath’s mother (the one with the bad heart) is one of Atwood’s most haunting characterizations. I remember my response to her when … Continue reading
The Books: “Cat’s Eye” (Margaret Atwood)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Here is an excerpt from Cat’s Eye – by Margaret Atwood. I’ve actually been dreading this moment, because I love this book so much. I don’t know how to talk about it. I’m also going … Continue reading
Margaret Atwood Is Omnipresent
Margaret Atwood has been coming up quite a bit for me, lately. There was this peripheral mention of Bodily Harm – which brought up a flood of memories from when I first read that unbelievable book – a book that … Continue reading
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
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged 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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Waiting for Godot: Waiting, In General
I like this question a lot: What books or stories can you think of that importantly feature absent characters? The answers in the thread are cool, too. The first one that comes to mind, for me, is Ulysses – where … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged Alice McDermott, Cat's Eye, J.D. Salinger, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, The Passion, Ulysses
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Sheila’s List of Contemporary Must-Read Fiction
1. This is # 1 on the list, forever. 2. If anyone ever really wants to understand, on a cellular level, how I see the world, and humanity’s place in it … I wouldn’t be able to describe it myself … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged A Wrinkle in Time, Birds of America, Cat's Eye, Hopeful Monsters, Mating, The Goldbug Variations
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