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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I ordered the book having read it already, just to have it for my library. It has a beautiful geometric pattern cover, which looks better on the computer screen than in real life. I prefer the hard-cover edition, but this one will make a nice, inexpensive, but meaningful gift.... »
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Essays of E. B. White (Perennial Classics)
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I live on a small rural island in the Pacific Northwest, home to fewer than a thousand people in the winter, so I have a deep understanding of what E. B. White means when he writes: "Feeling ran so high that some people stopped speaking to each other--which is a form of discourse."
Lately, I felt the need for something calming in my life... »
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Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette)
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That's my one-line summary. But let me go at least a little beyond that for the sake of completeness. Big picture: there's really not really actually. This book felt like a disturbed sleep with a lot of dreams. Dreams are seldom coherent, jumping realms of space and time as they so wish. So does Winterson in this book. I recognize it's a conscious deci... »
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Radio Golf
This is a proper finale to Wilson's century cycle, I read this play and the nine others as part of a college class and it wraps up the saga with Wilson's ... »
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Omeros
Creating an epic poem based on Homer and Odysseus seems a risky proposition for a modern poet, but Derek Walcott accomplishes the feat with stunning resul... »
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
"Joe Turner's Come & Gone" is the first play of Wilson's that I've read. I finished the play the week before his death. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning play... »
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Vile Bodies
This is a tale of rich, popular young adults set in the first half of the 20th century. Waugh witnessed the birth of the world we inhabit today with a sen... »
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The Mating Season
or a sunny one for that matter. P.G always delivers!! If you haven't read him don't wait!... »
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