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The shipping news by Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her …
Since I discovered the fediverse I must have written like 10 new bios for profiles. And, as you may know, it's hard to keep telling who you are to people you've never met and you probably never will. Especially when you're not really sure yourself.
This list of books here is wildly incomplete. I was one of those weird kids that spend their time reading. I don't even remember what books I've read. I try to keep track but I get lost, I forget, I lose interest. Also, my attention span is getting funny with age.
Everything is getting funny with age.
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At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her …
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a 'difficult' woman. By no means is she conventionally 'nice', but she will …
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, …
Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story …
Thomas Harris will seize you with an emotion more profound than terror.
Of his previous novel, Stephen King wrote, "The …
Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by. Then her husband's lover, …
The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires, [le tʁwɑ muskətɛːʁ]) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by …