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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe826ca | Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 8ba3950 | Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward, edited by Isaac Metzker.) | Nancy Pearl | ||
| eb71cc4 | Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| c8e7fad | Montserrat Fontes's disturbing novel of a family trying to survive the brutal Porfirio Diaz regime at the turn of the twentieth century, Dreams of the Centaur, is followed by First Confession. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 40c668c | Some of my favorite contemporary Montana writers and their books include Annick Smith's Homestead, a memoir of her experiences, along with her husband and four children, homesteading in the Blackfoot Valley on 163 acres in the 1960s; Deirdre | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 2060a5b | In Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan, the bloody violence sweeping India after partition has not yet touched Mano Majra, a small village of Muslims and Sikhs on the India-Pakistan border. But in the summer of 1947, the murder of a Hindu moneylender and the arrival of a trainful of dead Sikhs set off a tragic chain of events. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 5e17138 | Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener." | Nancy Pearl | ||
| dbf67ed | James Buchan's The Persian Bride combines a moving love story, a political thriller, and a history of modern Iran in a beautiful novel about the relationship of two people caught up in the Iranian revolution: John Pitt, a young man from England who arrives in Isfahan, Iran, in 1974, and seventeen-year-old Shirin, one of John's students, whose father is a general in the shah's army. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 3bd86fe | Amy Wilentz's Martyrs' Crossing is set against the ongoing tension of Israeli-Palestinian relations. When a Palestinian woman is turned back at the checkpoint at Ramallah as she attempts to take her sick child to an Israeli hospital, she and the young Israeli soldier who's guarding the crossing find their lives altered forever. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 399cd75 | A. B. Guthrie's 1947 novel The Big Sky (even better than its sequel, The Way West, which won the Pulitzer Prize), The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940), and Jack Schaefer's Shane (1949) were all made into well-regarded movies, but these three classics of Western fiction continue to make for wonderful reading. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 97b80d4 | Pueblo, Colorado, a corrupt and decaying mining town high in the Rockies, is the setting for Heidi Julavits's The Mineral Palace, a story of motherhood, a troubled marriage, and the unveiling of long-held secrets. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| daae382 | In Breaking Clean, Judy Blunt looks back on her childhood and early married life in the 1950s and '60s on cattle ranches in northeastern Montana, and explores what it meant to be female in that place and time. | Nancy Pearl | ||
| 791d415 | we would say. Not "forever", just Prince Edward Island." | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| b88398e | Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| d9254ba | Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| dab369e | There was also a wall vase with artificial flowers in it. The flowers were made of crepe paper dipped in wax. They did not resemble any actual flowers and there had been no attempt to convey a general truth, such as what a flower is or why there are such things as flowers, but merely to make one more disconcerting object. There were no magazines on the mission table. It was not part of the hospital's intention to offer entertainment or to m.. | William Maxwell | ||
| 560068f | Positive, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| ef86f88 | Prejudice, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 53624ee | The values and assumptions of that household I took in without knowing when or how it happened, and I have them to this day: The pleasure in sharing pleasure. The belief that is is only proper to help lame dogs to get over stiles and young men to put one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. An impatient disregard for small sums of money. The belief that it is a sin against Nature to put sugar in one's tea. The preference for being home ov.. | family-history | William Maxwell | |
| 58e4010 | At that period, rising in the world meant giving up working with your hands in favor of work in a store or an office. The people who lived in town had made it, and turned their backs socially on those who had not but were still growing corn and wheat out there in the country. What seemed like an impassable gulf was only the prejudice of a single generation, which refused to remember its own not very remote past. | family-relationships wheat | William Maxwell | |
| f9c2598 | You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could. | family-history | William Maxwell | |
| cdabdd5 | The music of Beethoven's Fidelio always rises up in my mind when I think of that meeting in the forest, and my throat constricts with an emotion that is, I'm afraid, purely factitious--unless feelings are more a part of our physical inheritance than is commonly believed, in which case it is Mary Edie's joy, unquenchable, passed on, and then passed on again, generation after generation, along with the color of eyes and the shape of hands and.. | fidelio | William Maxwell | |
| 0225abf | No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. --William E. Gladstone | Maxwell Maltz | ||
| 01b427b | In 1862, the Scottish mathematician James Clerk Maxwell developed a set of fundamental equations that unified electricity and magnetism. On his deathbed, he coughed up a strange sort of confession, declaring that "something within him" discovered the famous equations, not he. He admitted he had no idea how ideas actually came to him--they simply came to him. William Blake related a similar experience, reporting of his long narrative poem Mi.. | David Eagleman | ||
| 3d23b59 | The original Pikers from Kentucky and Missouri, in the words of pioneer diarist William Audley Maxwell, were considered "of a 'backwoods' class," | Rinker Buck | ||
| cf105df | Mother, listen to me. Now's your chance, do you hear? I know that when I start to talk about what I really think and want and believe, something comes over you, some terrible fit of impatience, so that your knees twitch and you can't even sit still long enough to hear what I have to say. You listen to other people. Anybody but your own daughter you have all the patience in the world with. I've watched you. You know just what to say and what.. | William Maxwell | ||
| eb34ba9 | The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot be watched over, twenty-four hours of the day. At what moment, from what hiding-place, the idea of evil will strike, there is no telling. And when it does, the result is not always disastrous. Children have their own incalculable strength and weakness, and this, for all their seeming helplessness, will determine the .. | danger evil parenting | William Maxwell | |
| 5064ec9 | With no sense of the passing of time, they held each other and lost themselves in the opening, unmasking tenderness that always comes after a satisfactory quarrel. | William Maxwell | ||
| a5536c2 | It was the unexpected that happened, always. | William Maxwell | ||
| a1b3b3e | If your first plan fails, try another!" - Napoleon Hill If" | William Maxwell | ||
| 39c01f3 | Harvard generally frowned on Aiken's postwar activities, however, including his close ties with industry, and ultimately the continual struggle for funding drove him to retire from the university at the minimum age in 1961. When he died suddenly at a conference in March 1973 at the age of seventy-three, Aiken left a generous bequest to Harvard. His generosity was not reciprocated. In spring 2000 the new Maxwell Dworkin computer sciences bui.. | Kathleen Broome Williams | ||
| a1f49c0 | Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 5c05ad1 | Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| a4e89c3 | Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 3ef8a57 | Twice, adv. Once too often. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| dc5d6b5 | Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 6fc5744 | White, adj. and n. Black. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 56fd450 | children were more partisan about their gaming choices than most political parties were about their manifestos. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| f4c552f | And just as there is random horror-murder,suicide,child abuse,car accidents.......there is also indiscriminate kindness. Not merely miracles,though I have experienced them.But simple human connection,either brokered by an angel or sourced by one. That is why I try to encourage people to be receptive to that new person who seems to have appeared in their life out of nowhere. | you-never-know | Chris Bohjalian | |
| a0c0e1f | Dead men walked the Earth, killing the living. The apocalypse had arrived. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| c876dda | but my biggest worry was that he would | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 1c2585a | Do not judge a man in war, judge him in peace. Once | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| b7b9f0d | Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 08114db | And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you. | Gregory David Roberts |