the booklog

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

Archive for August, 2007

“I thought how strange it is, the way the shape of your life grows up around you unbidden, like weeds.  In the beginning you do not intend to live any particular way, you think you are living freely, are hardly aware of the subtle choices you are making.  But as the years pass your life […]

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I really like epistolary novels, and this was no exception. Style wise, at least, I like this sort of thing. This is the first one that I’ve read, though, that only one side of the correspondence was shown, the rest just assumed or mentioned in responses. At the beginning of the novel, […]

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SCANDALOUS LOVERS - Robin Schone

On the front of this is says something about being best selling erotic fiction. That’s a kicker, because I am interested in what people in general consider erotic. What do women fantasize about?
However, this book surely cannot be it. I know that stereotypically females like to talk. About everything. […]

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THE WELL OF LONELINESS - Radclyffe Hall

“At that moment she felt an imperative need to believe that the stricken beast had a Maker, and her own eyes grew bright, but with blinding tears because of her mighty need to believe, a need that was sharper than physical pain, being born of the pain of the spirit.”
“They were pawns in the ruthless […]

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