7 hours ago by typehype

From “ Bookmobile History and Photo Album“ Now that I live two blocks from the public library in Jackson Heights, I have been ordering books like crazy through their online system since moving here a little over a month ago. When I’d left NY for CA 13 years ago, this poor little branch library had b ...

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2 days ago by MrsGorman

“I’m drawn to failure. I feel that I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.” via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger…

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2 days ago by brideofthebookgod

So another quickie review of a fun, scary read. Half-Minute Horrors does exactly what you might think; it pulls together over seventy stories aimed at giving youngsters a good fright through a mixture of prose, poetry and pictures and is really very enjoyable. The selling point for me was the range ...

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4 days ago by docshona

Book :After The Wreck,I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings And Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates From the dust jacket : In the raw was how the world felt now. My feelings were raw, my thoughts were raw and hurtful like knife blades. . . . In the blue had been my place to hide, now In the raw there was n ...

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5 days ago by Tracie

Booking Through Thursday Challenge for November 19, 2009: Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Bronte, or any of the classic authors? If so, who, and why do you think so? If not, why not? What books from this era might be read 100 years from now? There is a hidd ...

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7 days ago by Christopher

"Alma? I wonder if you could help me..." Yes, Mr. Siegl. "Some pages seem to be lost. This writing I've been doing in the dining room. I've looked everywhere, I can't understand how these pages could be lost..." Desperate he was sounding. Pathetic. Why didn't he summon the Blumenthal woman, needing ...

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7 days ago by Julie

This tome is by Joyce Carol Oates and I started it yesterday. It is very engrossing. I can’t put it down. I’m over half way through. I’ve taken it everywhere with me since I started reading it yesterday, except the reception I attended. It is sad, redemptive, authentic. I am enjoying it very much. I ...

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8 days ago by Janine

Isak Dinesen once said, "I write a little every day, without hope and without despair." Such an approach continues to be a life to strive toward and even a fine way to process this world. Yet on a recent Friday, m y motherboard and hard drive died. This after gifting the elderly DELL with new RAM an ...

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10 days ago by camapafe

Me pregunto si la historia de Herschel Schwart el “mitad judío mitad iroqués” que inventa Joyce Carol Oates en su novela ” La hija del sepulturer o” podrá haber inspirado el quehacer y modos de Aldo - el apache- Raine que aparece en aquellos malditos bastardos de Tarantino: And yet the tale would be ...

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12 days ago by Nicola di Bowery

To celebrate his birthday, The Rumpus republished Steve Almond’s essay on Kurt Vonnegut. “The Failed Prophecy of Kurt Vonnegut (and How It Saved My Life). It’s quite long, but absolutelt worth it. An old Vonnegut appears on a panel with Joyce Carol Oates and Jen Weiner in Connecticut: At one point, ...

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