the booklog

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

THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX - Kate DiCamillo

I adore her books, and my son and I both find frequent references to her characters in our conversations.  And that sort of thing, makes up some of my proudest Mommy Moments.  Because dude, my kid makes literary references.  At five.

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I think this might be one of those books that’s kind of impossible not to like. This is my second reading, and I was just as entertained and charmed this time around as the first time.
It’s very clever. It’s filled with great British humor. It’s about an angel and a demon, […]

WRITTEN ON THE BODY - Jeanette Winterson

I think I love this author.
Don’t have the book in front of me, because I am lame, but it was an incredible love story.  About real love, the gut-wrenching but beautiful love… not romance novel love.

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WATCHMEN - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

“Come…dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a Quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.  Dry your eyes… and let’s go home.”
This book, which was recommended by a good friend, whom I respect much, though I have […]

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BELOVED - Toni Morrison

Baby Suggs and Denver at the end, they kind of blew my mind.
Will write more about this when I have it in front of me, too.