EccentricMuse

Eccentric Musings (jakaEM)

"I have undergone sharp discipline which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy." Emily Brontë

 

still figuring this place out - Jen W


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Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro
Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro
Progress: 115/288 pages
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature - Margaret Atwood
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Margaret Atwood
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November
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Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro
currently reading
Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature - Margaret Atwood
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Margaret Atwood
May 2014
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We Need to Talk About Kevin, while not the best novel I’ve read in 2014, is certainly the most gripping, the one that had me ...
February 2014
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Some books have an amazingly unexplainable ability to transcend the purpose of their creation and take a leap into being an i...
February 2014
09
text: Reading progress update: I've read 115 out of 288 pages.
True story: When Alice Munro won the Nobel, my very first thought was - "Al...
Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro
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Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro
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Holy. Shit. HOLY SHIT. I should know by now it's impossible to read a Wolfe novel once and move on with life, without it ex...
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"The morning after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones." It's been ...
February 2014
8
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February 2014
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“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt the...
January 2014
29
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My Antonia - Willa Cather
January 2014
28
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January 2014
27
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I think I've posted this before, but it's still cool enough to post again. Thanks to Kelly for sending it my way!
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Just noting that I have exactly 666 books shelved and I am reading Wuthering Heights. Coincidence? I think not. Heathcliff is...
January 2014
26
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I've now read two John Green books, and I'm sure that's not enough to fully gauge his entire oeuvre. But it is enough to feel...
text: Oh My Antonia!
lord love a duck, I just spent 20 mins trying to find the right edition of ...
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Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry, Rohinton Minstry
reviewed: Such a long journey ... well worth taking
(read a different edition) A better understanding of the political events...
Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry, Rohinton Minstry
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People slam doors, defy society and fall madly in love. ..THIS is the weakest of the Brontë sisters? It will take pages, l...
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