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I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Archive for November, 2005

"The two hardest things to contemplate in life… are failure and age; and those are one and the same.  Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential.  Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men.  It’s simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see […]

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LOLA CARLYSE REVEALS ALL - Rachel Gibson

Christ, this was the typical trash novel, only instead of sheaths and swords it was the worlds most famous lingerie model and a secret government agent.  They hate each other, but they want to fuck so bad.  Then the love each other, but don’t want to admit it, then they have lots of sex and […]

I really liked The Other Boleyn Girl, but this one… it was just fine.  I guess.
I liked the premise of the story,  a woman falling in love with her slave.  But, the story never quite got there.
The descriptions about slaving, and the business of it, were great.  They were vivid, actually enough so to give […]

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