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The Song of the Lark
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The penguin classic editions are sure nice little books. It's my first Wila Cather book and I was expecting much more (actually not more, but better) from the reviews I've read. The style is of a quiet, unpretentious storyteller, almost intimistic tone; but it doesn't deliver anything. I was waiting and waiting for the great moment in the narrative, th... »
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The Ladies
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This is just a sweet old fashioned love story... a lesbian love story that is. I happened upon a hardcover copy in a used bookstore. The cover looked idyllic, pastoral... two ladies dressed in riding habits, surveying the english countryside. It is a story of the enormous risks they took to be together, and the creative life of beauty that they share... »
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Extra Innings: A Memoir
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I enjoy this book very much. It is not one that I have read once never to pick up again. I have highlighted may portions of this book as I have found them to be very insightful for my own life as a woman and as a writer. I enjoy her candor and observations. I appreciate her ability to express herself, even during her sadness. It is real. True aut... »
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Fifty Days of Solitude
When her companion Sylvia left for an extended book-buying trip, Doris Grumbach was given 50 days alone in their home on the coast of Maine. It was the wi... »
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Life in a Day
With the recent plethora of memoirs delving into traumatic lives and despairing experiences, this quiet memoir from the author of The Book of Knowledge... »
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O Pioneers!
The first in her prairie trilogy, O Pioneers! starts with the death of John Bergson, a Swedish immigrant with a keen foresight to the eventual worth of hi... »
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The Magician's Girl
The book isn't what I expected--it's probably better! I thought it would be a lighthearted look at three college friends, but it has some very grim and d... »
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The Pleasure of their Company
As Grumbach is planning her 80th birthday party, she reflects on friends both living and dead as well as writers and books and assorted artists that've ... »
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