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Mister Pip

Posted in Books, tagged , , , , on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There are those people for each of us, acknowledged or not, whose influence runs so deeply and purely that we strive to become a bit of whom they are. That’s a bad sentence, but it’s late and I’m having trouble hammering out thoughts on this novel without getting too close to an emotional precipice that [...]

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Hurry springtime

Posted in Random thoughts, tagged , on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Still very few signs of Spring in toastland. There are some fat robins prancing on the lawn, and the days are longer. It will happen. Meanwhile, luck brought me the Tim O’Brien novel last month via the Goodwill store. I read it in one day and it’s the best thing so far in 2008. Last year was such an incredibly [...]

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