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Books 6/29/05

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The last two books I read created an interesting synergy. As I posted earlier, I got an advance copy of The Zahir by Paulo Coelho from Harper Collins. Contrary to some other people, I like his writing, and his fable-istic Read more ›

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Books 6/24/05

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Every couple of weeks, my sister brings her kids over to my house and one of the possible treats of going to “auntie’s house” is going to the library. My nephews are 2 and a bit, and for them the Read more ›

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Books 6/22/05

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Flannery O’Connor hurts my brain. In a good way, but hurts nonetheless. I just finished Wise Blood, and my thoughts are struggling to connect themselves. There’s so many threads of yearning, struggling for redemption, for identity; trying to free yourself Read more ›

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Books 6/21/05

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I just finished Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All Story collection, a smorgasborg of stories from the Zoetrope All Story journal, never before printed fiction, and original essays on film. From the introduction (and not because I have an encyclopedic knowledge Read more ›

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Books 6/18/05

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I finished The Vagabond by Colette days ago and have moved on to Zoetrope All Story, a collection of short stories that appeared in Francis Ford Copalla’s magazine of the same name. I’m enjoying it muchly and will write about Read more ›

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Books 6/11/05

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Distraction has struck again. Well, not completely. I’m in the middle of reading The Vagabond, which I fully intend to finish, I just got an unexpected Amazon shipment containing Ruddy Gore, the most recently reprinted Phryne Fisher mystery by Kerry Read more ›

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Books 6/10/05

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I just finished Creating Colette Vol. 1 by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, the first in a two volume biography of the French writer Colette. Colette is one of my favorite writers, her short stories are targeted and precise, and Read more ›

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Books 6/6/05

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I will get to Misfortune, I really will. I mentioned my distracted state of mind in the last post (or so), and that same distraction led me to pick up the first volume of Creating Colette by Claude Francis and Read more ›

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Books 6/3/05

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I know I said I was going to be reading Misfortune by Wesley Stace next, but I forgot that I was actually in the middle of reading Ibid by Mark Dunn. The fact that I forgot that I was reading Read more ›

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Books 6/1/05

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After reading A Factory of Cunning, I was inspired to pick up the recent French mini-series version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The director made some interesting decisions as far as character motivation, and overall it was a very good adaptation. Read more ›

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