- Read 5 (or more) canonical works
- Read 100 books
jan 3 2012 ∞
jan 3 2012 +
- Updike describes deer in Toward the End of Time as "tender-faced ruminants"
jun 21 2009 ∞
jun 21 2009 +
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- Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — "God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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one of us can ever express the exact measure of our needs, or our ideas, or our sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when we long to move the stars to pity." - Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (trans. Lydia Davis)
- "The State is a condition, a certain rela...
jan 5 2011 ∞
mar 10 2011 +
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- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously
- Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
- Yiyun Li, Golden Boy, Emerald Girl
- Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
- Dame Darcy, Meat Cake
- Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
- Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
- Lynda Barry, Cruddy
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Lynda Barry, What It Is
- Hillary Chute, Graphic Women
- Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front
- Catherynne Valenti, Deathless
- Charles Portis, True Grit
- Johanna Adorjan, An Exclusive Love
- Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
mar 10 2011 ∞
dec 9 2011 +
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