Lots of great quotes in this review - thank you - I really need to read Seneca. In college I was too young to appreciate most of the great wisdom I read. (Yes, "youth is wasted on the young,"

What a thoughtful, well-organized review. Thanks for this!

Excellent summary of a book - thank you for taking time to include all those quotes and excerpts! (especially the Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde quotes - personal favorites!) THE DUDE ABIDES

Oh my - I'm guessing your parents DID NOT READ this novel before gifting it to you! I was just 12 years old, and it hit me like a freight train. My parents, familiar with some of the author’s more

Thanks for the tip - I'll check out booktube!

Thanks for the screen shot, and good luck with taxes!

the story about the failed purchase - My reply got lost, and of course I didn't notice that until I'd posted. How many resources does it cost to edit a reply. Or to add another reply, to clarify and qualify.

That was my favorite part too!! I love this line: OK, let's forget about that stupidity. Let's talk about this book. I also laughed at this: the book was written "centuries ago" -- --Not even

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Sam, 5 months late, I find this post. How did I fall off the face of the earth again. You have so many amazing things to share!!! You're the first person I thought of when I happened across this item of

The ending of this novel was (in my opinion) needlessly tragic. Surprising, yes, but our hero pays the ultimate sacrifice. I'd rather his stupid girlfriend paid the price he paid... I passed over in silence

Ok, I probably gave up too soon. Twice a day for six months - nope, I did not do that. THANK YOU for the information!!! You are inspiring!

Their mom, that is, not my mom. Mom was a baby, with brothers age 10 and age 7, when their mom died. Oh the scars it can leave - however well hidden - buried deep! Food is magic; food is the cure for so

I loved Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love. The argument/showdown with Phillip Seymour Hoffman was classic! I would watch this movie based on your review alone. I'd watch it just for the soundtrack - you

Thank you so much for reading and commenting! My mom's brother did the same thing at age ten - "I wish you were dead!" - and soon Mom was in the hospital with pneumonia, and she never came home

You use DMSO? Please, please tell me how you use it!!! I have four bottles, never used! --I did try it for knee pain but quit due to the disclaimer about scrupulously clean skin and our bodies absorbing

You nailed it! The reason I am drawn to historical fiction is also the reason I'm allergic to it (so painful to read). This is a generational saga, full of magical, supernatural and superstitious elements,

Harry!!!! I love Harry Potter!!! and I love that you correctly use "penultimate" - I'm embarrassed to confess that despite a degree in English teaching, I only recently realized it means

In 2008, a friend asked me to buy this book and read it with her. She never did follow up, but I read the whole thing and learned some things, but also felt frustrated by the way he got to have a revelation

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