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My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

  Ahh this book. This book. It’s not a happy novel, or one with a promising ending, or one that’s particularly optimistic. However, I continually find myself coming back to this novel (or suggesting it to others) when I want to read something that is well-written, inclusive, and filled with love. 

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Monday Literary Quote

Dorris Lessing, British writer and the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away on Sunday at the age of 94. In her honor: “What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate.

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Weekend Reading

Literary Sylvia Plath’s unseen drawings from her private letters were displayed on Brain Pickings this week. I could spend days on that blog. Beautiful, wise words aren’t only found it books. November 19 marks the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.

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Ireland – Galway, Aran Islands, Clonmacnoise, Swords

Ireland trip continued! Intro is here. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. After a whirlwind three days of traveling around the south of Ireland, we settled in for a cozy 3 nights in Galway at the Almara House.

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Monday Literary Quote

In honor of Veteran’s Day: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

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Weekend Reading

Happy Friday folks!   Literary (words and stuff) Albert Camus wrote this beautiful, touching letter to his former teacher after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. I think we can all learn from this man’s humble and gentle manner. “I embrace you with all my heart…”

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Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

  I think Swamplandia! is one of those books that critics loved (it was the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year) but readers are not as convinced.

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Monday Literary Quote

It’s getting cold here in New York. I drank a lot of lattes over the weekend. The NYC marathon ran through my neighborhood on Sunday so we walked over to watch.

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Weekend Reading

It’s Friday! Literary Stuff For Breaking Bad fans: Walter White’s “I am the one who knocks” as written by other authors. We’re still catching up to the final season!

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Fall Fun – Because Fall Is Hip

And… It’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers. Fall has become the hippest season. If hipster was a season, it would be fall. It was cool before winter. (Too much? Ok.) Fall has always been my favorite season so I’m glad that everyone is catching up to me.