Book 56: Slammerkin – Emma Donoghue
What a stark contrast to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. I’m not sure if this is because a woman wrote […]
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Book 50: Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina is the story of Ruth Anne “Bone” Cartwright. It’s a story about survival and about perseverance.
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Book 47: The Help – Kathryn Stockett
After hearing Emma Donoghue recommend this book, I of course immediately added it to my list of books to read.
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Book 1: White Teeth – Zadie Smith
White Teeth was a much more interesting read than I thought it would be. It was originally selected as one
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Quotes from A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood
“With that body which sprawled stark naked, gaping wide in shameless demand, underneath Jim’s nude body? Gross in sucking vulva,
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Quotes from At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
“How did Doyler do this? He could make Jim so angry with himself, so ashamed. The next minute he was
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Quote from The History Boys – Alan Bennett
“Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude? History is a
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