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Family: What We All Are Reading
Bren: re-reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel Jean: reading The End of the Affair, and also Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Dad: reading The Far Side of the World (he finished Treason’s Harbour) Siobhan: … Continue reading
The Books: “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” (Michael Chabon)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – by Michael Chabon. This is one of my favorite books ever written – and I consider it to be in the pantheon of great American novels. I … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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typed in from blackberry … hence, the serial killer typing style: mad libs pilates with the o’malley siblings ocean – the beautiful beautiful ocean stubbies boggle reading crossword puzzles sunblock daily red sox game the mason jar ipods being charged … Continue reading
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Tagged Buster Keaton, Compulsion, family, Red Sox, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Fiction Meme
Which fictional character frightens you the most? Cathy from East of Eden. She haunts me. I’ve written about her multiple times – usually in other contexts (here – in a post about Leslie van Houten. And here. That one started … Continue reading
Favorite Fictional Characters
A revised list, from a post I did a while back. My favorite characters from fiction. I am limiting my choices to just novels – and leaving out such amazing characters as Hamlet, or Stanley Kowalski. Here is how I … Continue reading
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Tagged A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Catch-22, Charlotte's Web, Crime and Punishment, East of Eden, Emily of New Moon, Geek Love, Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, L.A. Confidential, Little Women, Moby Dick, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Pride and Prejudice, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Brothers Karamazov, The Catcher In the Rye, The Passion, The Shipping News, Ulysses
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Recommended Reading: Fiction
And now for the Fiction recommendations. (See the Non-Fiction ones below) Choosing books out of all the books I love is rather torturous for me. So this is an impulsive, scanning-the-bookshelves-with-mine-eyes and writing titles down spur-of-the-moment kind of list. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Atonement, Charlotte Bronte, Crime and Punishment, England, fiction, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Going After Cacciato, Harriet the Spy, Herman Melville, Ian McEwan, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jane Eyre, Louise Fitzhugh, Michael Chabon, Moby Dick, Possession, Russia, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Catcher In the Rye, The Dead, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, Vietnam
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A Week of Talk
My entire week has been filled with vigorous and interesting conversations: 1. With my mother, about what happened in her painting class. She had spent one class, kind of standing next to who she thinks is the “best painter in … Continue reading
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Tagged cab drivers, Eminem, family, friends, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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