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« on: July 06, 2009, 01:08:12 PM » |
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I just finished Augusten Burroughs' 'Possible Side Effects'. I am currently reading a book titled 'The Magician's Assistant' by Ann Patchett. Tell me what you're reading. Keep in mind, I might use it to update our Facebook page what are you reading thing, but I'm just going to put the book cover up, not ur name. Like here: http://www.facebook.com/literary.mary(look to the bottom left.) |
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2009, 07:00:47 AM » |
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i just finished Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber along with relentless by dean koontz i havn't picked up a new book to read. |
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2009, 03:25:09 PM » |
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I'm reading Obamas 'Dreams from my Father' Its really well written. They say he writes a lot of poetry also. I'll be looking for that. I just finished another Biog' of the Orkney Poet George Mackay Brown. He's a fantastic poet and the author Maggie Ferguson creates a fantastic portrayal of his life. His Best poem IMHO: 'Hamnavoe'
My father passed with his penny letters
Through closes opening and shutting like legends
When barbarous with gulls
Hamnavoe's morning broke
On the salt and tar steps. Herring boats,
Puffing red sails, the tillers
Of cold horizons, leaned
Down the gull-gaunt tide
And threw dark nets on sudden silver harvests.
A stallion at the sweet fountain
Dredged water, and touched
Fire from steel-kissed cobbles.
Hard on noon four bearded merchants
Past the pipe-spitting pier-head strolled,
Holy with greed, chanting
Their slow grave jargon.
A tinker keen like a tartan gull
At cuithe-hung doors. A crofter lass
Trudged through the lavish dung
In a dream of corn-stalks and milk.
In the Arctic Whaler three blue elbows fell,
Regular as waves, from beards spumy with porter,
Till the amber day ebbed out
To its black dregs.
The boats drove furrows homeward, like ploughmen
In blizzards of gulls. Gaelic fisher-girls
Flashed knife and dirge
Over drifts of herring.
And boys with penny wands lured gleams
From tangled veins of the flood. Houses went blind
Up one steep close, for a
Grief by the shrouded nets.
The kirk, in a gale of psalms, went heaving through
A tumult of roofs, freighted for heaven. And lovers
Unblessed by steeples lay under
The buttered bannock of the moon.
He quenched his lantern, leaving the last door.
Because of his gay poverty that kept
my seapink innocence
From the worm and black wind;
And because, under equality's sun,
All things wear now to a common soiling,
In the fire of images
Gladly I put my hand
To save that day for him. |
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"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live"- H.D. Thoreau
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2009, 10:24:19 PM » |
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I tried reading Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things but couldn't stand the unbelievably pretentious prose, so I picked up E. Annie Proulx's Postcards instead, which is so, so much better so far. I put House of Leaves on hold. I needed something lighter after a month of intense housework, which could be just about any other book. |
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When you get blue and you've lost all your dreams, there's nothing like a campfire and a can of beans. |
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2009, 01:54:15 AM » |
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2009, 01:53:31 PM » |
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i have started reading a childrens collection of spike milligan poems because he is amazing, although my faviourite poem of his is not included (Soldiers at Lauro) |
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« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2009, 11:25:21 PM » |
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 What Are You Reading/What Have You Read Recently? Here: http://fatherluke.org/cunningham-mccreesh/ |
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2009, 12:22:35 AM » |
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i just finished Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
along with relentless by dean koontz
i havn't picked up a new book to read.
How are you liking Sybil? I thought it was in credible. Run, Rabbit, Run was also pretty incredible if it's a topic you're highly interested in. |
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2009, 12:24:08 AM » |
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I'm reading "The Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve. I'm not going to recommend it, primarily because (please forgive me this is NOT a sympathy post, just an observation) my own husband died in a plane crash, and I dont find her reaction or thoughts relatable. But then again it's all a matter of who we are I guess. |
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2009, 08:08:39 AM » |
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i just finished Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
along with relentless by dean koontz
i havn't picked up a new book to read.
How are you liking Sybil? I thought it was in credible. Run, Rabbit, Run was also pretty incredible if it's a topic you're highly interested in. it was an amazing book, although i did find it annoying that sometimes there were jumps of a few years in which your told virtually nothing about, i know that nothing interesting may have happened during the time but even a brief note on it would be better, considering it is supposed to be a psychology book rather than a non-fictions novel. Torey Haydens books are quite good, it's kinda autobiographical, she's a special ed teacher and they detail of some of her carreer (usually focusing on one person or a class she had for a year or two) |
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2009, 09:18:48 PM » |
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 What Are You Reading/What Have You Read Recently? |
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« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2009, 05:55:17 PM » |
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My Daughter bought me a copy of "the no spin zone" by Bill O'Reilly. She got it at a garage sale. Its my second time hrough it and I like it more the second time through. I am ready to catch flak now. |
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« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2009, 11:35:14 PM » |
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My Daughter bought me a copy of "the no spin zone" by Bill O'Reilly.
She got it at a garage sale. Its my second time hrough it and I like it more the second time through.
I am ready to catch flak now.
You're lucky the 88 misfired. One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest (again) |
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When someone said, "Most people laugh at you," his reply was, "And so very likely do the asses at them; but as they don't care for the asses, so neither do I care for them."
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« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2009, 09:06:43 AM » |
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The collected poems of Raymond Carver. Anyone who doesn't like his writing can just fuck off. I also read a poem by some stranger who came up to me in the park. Not good. Poor guy seemed to have issues though, I suggested maybe poetry wasn't the best route for his madness. |
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