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Meredith

Meredith

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from... more »
  • Columbus, OH, USA
  • member since February 21 2008

Meredith’s last login was Tuesday, September 22 2009. show recent activity »

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  • iGNACiO S

    iGNACiO S says

    Leonard Cohen
    The man who wrote suzanne !
    join us in leonard's cohen group
    http://www.shelfari.com/groups/39736/about

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • amativus

    amativus says

    Wait who are you in SS? Your taste is awesome, I'm going to check out a bunch of these books.

    Also you said you're planning to read Snow by Pamuk. I tried it and was disappointed - the entire book works on a foundation that Turkey is dying and thus everything has some sad pall cast over it. Except that Turkey is far from dead, and without that foundation it's hard to take anything he says seriously. It's like somebody moaning about how the loss of India has turned Britain into the failed state it is today. What?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Kate

    Kate says

    haha. no, it's to be expected now! jerk... READ IT AGAIN! or go to New Orleans... or something.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )