100 books
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“We accepted their congratulations with good grace and proper modesty, but I felt then as I feel now, that I would have given my life to save Dresden for the World’s generations to come. That is how everyone should feel about every city on Earth.” “Armageddon in Retrospect” by Kurt Vonnegut Slowly, but surely, my…
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“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.” “Mort” by Terry Pratchett I warned you all that there would be a lot of Terry Pratchett on this list. Mort, Pratchett’s fourth Discworld novel, is…
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“‘Don’t expect miracles. She’s an accident waiting to happen.’” “Lean Mean Thirteen: A Stephanie Plumm Novel” by Janet Evanovich I don’t typically read a lot of chick lit, and I’ve only just recently gotten into mysteries. Lean Mean Thirteen is the type of book that might easily turn me off to both genres by how…
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“It’s a jungle out there in alphabet-land.” “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing” by Margaret Atwood I may be a little biased, since I truly enjoy Margaret Atwood’s writing, but I believe that her collection of essays on writing, reading, and being a writer should be reading for anyone who has ever wanted…
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First off, a big Thank You! to Tracy for the subscription! Welcome aboard! I look forward to reading some of your posts, too! And now, to the review: “It sometimes helps to remind myself that not everyone is like me. Not everyone writes things down in a notebook and then transcribes them into a diary.…
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“Soon they could see the spire of Notre Dame de la Victoire–and then they were in the shadow of the rock itself. When she stepped upon the shore, Cécile remembered how Sister Catherine de Saint-Augustin, when she landed with her companions, had knelt down and kissed the earth. Had she been alone, she would have…
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“When he opened the door to 101, he felt a rush of hope. There, lying on the floor like a gift, was a shotgun. ” “Resident Evil: Zero Hour” by S.D. Perry Clearly, I picked up Resident Evil: Zero Hour, the “novelization of Resident Evil Zero” as a bit of a palette cleanser, and that…
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“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho I’m always never really sure where I fit in with The Alchemist. This is my second time reading the book; the first was when I decided to pick it up with all the excited hype surrounding it when it was published…
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“I have chosen! God’s thumbs! What a time I had in deciding. I chose God’s thumbs because thumbs are such important things and handy to use. I thought to make a list of all the things I could not do without my thumbs, like writing, plaiting my hair, and pulling Perkin by his ear, but…
L.S. Engler 