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Tag Archives: Paul Zindel
2022 Books Read
Some re-reads this year, but a lot of new-to-me authors as well. New novels written by faves. Been a year of upheaval and transitions. I’ve managed to keep up my regular reading schedule. I just don’t feel right if I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Fadiman, art, Australia, Biography, books read, Canada, Christopher Hitchens, Edmund Burke, Elinor Lipman, England, entertainment biography, essays, Eve Babitz, friends, Germany, Greece, Hitler, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Joseph Cornell, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Master and Margarita, Memoirs, Michael Curtiz, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mitford sisters, nonfiction, Paul Zindel, politics, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Victor Klemperer, Victor Serge, war, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth, WWII, YA fiction
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The Two Days That Came Before
About 15 years ago, I gave myself the exercise to write down everything that happened “the two days that came before” – one of the reasons being that both days were unique and memorable, in their own small ways, nights … Continue reading
2015 Books Read
Even I am impressed with how much I read this year. Along the course of the year, occasionally I’d think to myself, “Good job, Sheila, with your Self-Imposed Reading Plan!” I’ve read a lot of new novels (not really my … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alexander Hamilton, Baseball A Literary Anthology, books read, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Marlowe, Edvard Radzinsky, Elvis Presley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hunter S. Thompson, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jeanette Winterson, Jincy Willett, Joan Didion, John Banville, John Wayne, Joshua Ferris, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Margaret Atwood, Norman Rush, Patricia Highsmith, Paul Zindel, Rasputin, Rebecca West, Ron Chernow, Russia, science, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Vietnam, W.H. Auden, William Styron
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Book Questionnaire Full of Shame, Loathing and Lying
I can’t remember where I initially found this questionnaire, but in re-doing my Categories I found the questions saved in Drafts. I had obviously seen them somewhere, and wanted to answer them eventually. Thought I’d bring it out now. Haven’t … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Billy Budd, By the Lake, Charles Dickens, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Hopeful Monsters, John McGahern, Paul Zindel, Philip K. Dick, Richard Bach, Ryszard Kapuściński, The Bridge Across Forever, The End of the Affair, The Great Gatsby, The Pigman, The Shipping News, War and Peace
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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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The Books: The Girl Who Wanted a Boy (Paul Zindel)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA books: Next book on the shelf is The Girl Who Wanted a Boy by Paul Zindel. There’s a funny story behind this book – which I loved as a teenager. I signed it out of the … Continue reading
The Books: The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas (Paul Zindel)
Children’s/YA fiction bookshelf: Next book on the shelf is The Undertaker’s Gone Banana’s by Paul Zindel. All I remember about this book is that two kids – Bobby and Lauri – become convinced that a tenant in their building has … Continue reading
The Books: Pardon Me, You’re Stepping On My Eyeball(Paul Zindel)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA books: Next book on the shelf is Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball! by Paul Zindel. Of all of Zindel’s books, this might be my favorite. Don’t let the title throw you off. It’s sort … Continue reading
The Books: “The Pigman’s Legacy” (Paul Zindel)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA books: Next book on the shelf is The Pigman’s Legacy by Paul Zindel. The sequel!! The sequel is nothing compared to The Pigman – and the plot is basically a repeat of what happened in the … Continue reading
The Books: “The Pigman” (Paul Zindel)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA fiction: Next book on the shelf is The Pigman by Paul Zindel. Okay, I always get a bit nervous when I pull a book off the shelf that not only do I love – but I … Continue reading