In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VI: Time Regained (1927) by Marcel Proust & the Lost Paradises
“I thought her very beautiful: still rich in hopes, full of laughter, formed from those very years which I myself had lost, she was like my own youth.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way (1920/1921) by Marcel Proust & Oriane’s Enchanted World of Names
“And my eyes resting upon her fair hair, her blue eyes, the lines of her neck… I cried out with myself as I admired this deliberately unfinished sketch: ‘How lovely she is! What true nobility! It is indeed a proud Guermantes.’”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (1919) by Marcel Proust & the Fairy Wood of Love
“The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. I: Swann’s Way (1913) by Marcel Proust & the Pathways of Perception
“They seemed to me now no more than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creations of my temperament.”
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13 Reasons Why (2007) by Jay Asher & the Power of Words
‘You can hear rumors,’ I said, ‘but you can’t know them.’
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Norse Mythology (2017) by Neil Gaiman & the Truth Gaiman cannot Deny
“Gaiman, the British writer, is a bit of a disappointment since much of his 2017 text has been found to closely resemble in structure and delivery (as you will soon see) many videos on Norse mythology posted on the video-sharing website called YouTube.”
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The Spy (2016) by Paulo Coelho & the Artist’s Mission in Life
“When I got to the sixth veil, I went over to the Shiva statue, simulated an orgasm, and cast myself to the ground while removing the seventh and final veil.”
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013) by Haruki Murakami & The Imaginary Reality
“Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking.”
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Author Interview: Pratima Cranse & her novel: All the Major Constellations
“When I first started writing the novel, like twenty years ago, Laura had thrown caution to the winds and accepted a part in a local production of A Midsummer Nights Dream.”
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Fields of Blood (2014) by Karen Armstrong & Is Religion the Cause of All Major Wars?
A compendium of history, politics and religion since the dawn of the agrarian age in human civilization.
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Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce & The Creation of True Art
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
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This Moment is Your Life (2015) by CG FEWSTON & A Dramatic Reading
Here is a hauntingly good reading of “This Moment is Your Life.”
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Why I Write (1946) by George Orwell & the 4 Questions Every Writer Should Ask
One can sense the sheer joy words must have given Orwell when he describes his history with reading and writing, and it makes this reader all the more glad that such poetry can live in the hearts of men and women.
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**125th Post** A Princess of Mars (1917) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
“A people without written language, without art, without homes, without love… Owning everything in common, even to your women and children, has resulted in your owning nothing in common.”
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Beowulf (?) by ? [&] Grendel (1971) by John Gardner
”The name Beowulf itself, ‘bee-wolf,’ apparently meaning bear, suggests affinities with a widely known folktale figure of prodigious strength, the Bear’s Son, the distribution of whose appearances, in North America as well as Eurasia, points to a background in that primordial cult of reverence for the bear discussed in Primitive Mythology, and which is still observed among the Ainus of Japan.”
