By Kristen on Aug 15, 2008 in Future Classics...? | 1 Comment
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Trish from Hey Lady, Whatcha Readin? tagged me for the Book Buzz meme… I’m really glad she did, since this is the sort of meme that’s right up my alley! Each month when I send out my Book Bites Newsletter (free, by the way — sign up on the far right sidebar), [...]
By Kristen on Aug 7, 2008 in Future Classics...?, Literary News | 5 Comments
Since we are still travelling about, I can’t write my usual Booking Through Thursday post today! So, I will just pass along two tidbits from last week that have caught many a reader’s eye…
First, Run by Ann Patchett is now out in paperback! This is truly one of my very favorite novels of the [...]
By Kristen on Jul 31, 2008 in Booking Through..., Future Classics...? | 18 Comments
What are your favourite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its last sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the last line?
Oooh good! The companion question to last week’s BTT! I thought I remembered reading the “Best Last Lines” somewhere [...]
By Kristen on Jul 22, 2008 in Future Classics...?, Life - a little bit better | 6 Comments
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Last week, while playing cards with my girlfriends (the game was 500 — a cross between Bridge and Euchre), Eve mentioned a feature in Newsweek that asks people what 5 books they believe have been most influential in their lives so far. Notice the category is not “favorite” or “best” books, but “influential.” [...]
By Kristen on Jul 13, 2008 in Future Classics...? | 1 Comment
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
Release date: 2007 / 289 pages
First line: “In those days, even before the war had swept up all the young men from the ranches, there were girls who came through the country breaking horses.”
Synopsis (from jacket cover): In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George [...]