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Tag Archives: Self-Help
The Books: “Self-Help” – ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love’ (Lorrie Moore)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Self-Help by Lorrie Moore – a short story collection. Excerpt from ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love’ Many of the stories in Self Help are hard to excerpt – … Continue reading
The Books: “Self-Help” – ‘What Is Seized’ (Lorrie Moore)
Next book in my Daily Book Excerpt – on my adult fiction shelves: Self-Help by Lorrie Moore – a short story collection. Excerpt from the second story: ‘What Is Seized’. A story told in fragments. It’s very very sad. The … Continue reading
The Books: “Self-Help” – ‘How to Be An Other Woman’ (Lorrie Moore)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Next book on the shelf: Self-Help by Lorrie Moore – a short story collection (her first, I believe). I’ll be excerpting from many of her stories – she’s so damn good. One of my favorite … Continue reading
2007 Books Read
(in the order in which I finished them, understanding that very often I read many books at the same time). I count re-read books, by the way. I’ll include links to any posts or book excerpts I might have done … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Anne Fadiman, Billy Budd, Bleak House, Bob Balaban, books read, Born Standing Up, By the Lake, David McCullough, Dean Stockwell, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dubliners, Elinor Lipman, George Washington, Graham Greene, Gulliver's Travels, Harry Potter, John Adams, John McGahern, Mary Gaitskill, Master & Commander, Michael Chabon, Never Let Me Go, Orson Welles, Philip K. Dick, Robert Kaplan, Scoop, Self-Help, Veronica
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