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“She had felt somehow that she, by mere exertion of will, could keep him alive, could bring him healing. It seemed impossible for him to die while she lived.” “Magic: The Gathering: The Thran” by J. Robert King Everything has a beginning and this stand-alone book in the Magic: the Gathering series is the beginning…
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” ‘…When a man becomes a writer, he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.’” “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. As a fan of the few Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. books I have read so far, I was extremely pleased to find an old, endearingly battered copy…
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” ‘No. It’s not very important. High school isn’t a very important place.’ “ “Carrie” by Stephen King. Continuing my trend of finally getting around to reading some of those iconic books that should be in my repertoire, (and just in time for a remake of the classic movie I already know and love, no…
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“…for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise [sic] the mind as a steady purpose–a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley Considering how much of an avid reader I am and that my degree encompasses a Literature focus, it’s a little staggering how few of the ‘Classics’ I’ve…
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“Poor lumpy Maudette, with her bitten thighs, was more interesting in death than she’d ever been in life.” “Dead Until Dark: Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries Book One” by Charlaine Harris The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris have been on my To-Be-Read list ever since the HBO show based on the books, True Blood, came…
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“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky It has been a very, very long time (too long?) since a book has affected me in the way that The Perks of Being a Wallflower has. I’m talking…
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“What else was there in any life–human or artifact, mortal or immortal–besides a useful existence?” “Magic: The Gathering – Bloodlines – Artifacts Cycle Book VI” by Loren L. Coleman With the completion of Bloodlines, I have officially read through an entire Magic: the Gathering book cycle. Now, I’m not much of a player of the…
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“…it is, indeed, the art of ellipsis, or of suggestion,–the incredible technique of impressing the inexpressible by non-expression of an impression.” “Renaissance in Japan: A Cultural Survey of the Seventeenth Century, Japan’s Literary Giants: Basho, Saikaku, Chikamatsu” by Kenneth P. Kirkwood Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a bibliophile. I can’t borrow books, because…
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” ‘Eileen,’ Mary Helen said bluntly, ‘every murderer is someone somebody knows.’” “A Novena for Murder: A Sister Mary Helen Mystery” by Sister Carol Anne O’Marie” In my train station here in the Chicago suburbs is one of the greatest things ever: the Book Cart. Passengers on the BNSF line can leave books, borrow books,…
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“I believe the costuming of today’s Japanese young women reveals, in a powerful way, how for many young Japanese females, Japan is a hard place to become a grown-up woman.” “Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women are Changing their Nation” by Veronica Chambers For me, Japan has always been an interesting country, and part of…
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