Less (2017) by Andrew Sean Greer & the Blue Suit
“I don’t mean the middle America of small minds and malt shops, or midcentury America, but rather the middle, the muddle, the void of America.”
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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. 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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Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998) by Daniel Goleman & Systems Theory
Some “secrets of success”: “rapport, empathy, persuasion, cooperation, and consensus building.”
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The Stories of John Cheever (1978) by John Cheever & the Creation of Fiction as Art
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos.”
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His Bloody Project (2015) by Graeme Macrae Burnet & Questions of Innocence
“I opened my eyes and watched the droplets of water fly up like sparks from a fire.”
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1Q84 (2009) by Haruki Murakami & the Two Moons
“The continual afternoon rain made the pine windbreak dark and heavy. He couldn’t hear the waves at all. There was no wind, just the rain falling straight down from the sky.”
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What They Teach You at Harvard Business School (2008) by Philip Delves Broughton & the Crimson Dilemma
“HBS smacks of an ivory tower, cut off from the world outside.”
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie & 30 Principles to Live By
30 Principles to Live By
1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want
4. Become genuinely interested in other people
5. Smile
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The Truth behind the last 100 Years of the Pulitzer Prize in Novel & Fiction
We are, however, all too familiar with the penchant judges and editors have for writers located in the coastal regions of the United States. From the list, the affiliated universities relating to the winners’ education and/or employment were found to be primarily located in the eastern coastal region of the United States: namely the New England Region and the Eastern Coastal Region which had an incredible 92 associated wins, the bulk of those coming from institutions in the state of New York (thought provoking); California, on the west coast, had an accredited 7 wins. Predictably and regrettably, since New York State and its institutions had the most associated wins by far for any state or region, the Pulitzer Prize in Novel/Fiction becomes, without question, the least diverse of all the book awards inside the United States of America.
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Death’s End: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3 (2010) by Cixin Liu & the End of Humanity and the Universe
“It’s not even accurate to call it the past, for the events related in these pages didn’t occur in the past. The details that have been preserved are already abundant. Sealed in floating bottles, they will hopefully reach the new universe and endure there.”
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*** 200th Post *** The Good Earth (1931) by Pearl S. Buck & the Great Chinese Novel
“And he remembered as one remembers a dream long past how O-lan rested from her work a little while and fed the child richly and the white rich milk ran out of her breast and spilled upon the ground. And this seemed too long past ever to have been.”
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Nutshell (2016) by Ian McEwan & Dreams had in a Mother’s Womb
“But lately, don’t ask why, I’ve no taste for comedy, no inclination to exercise, even if I had the space, no delight in fire or earth, in words that once revealed a golden world of majestical stars, the beauty of poetic apprehension, the infinite joy of reason.”
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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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I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around (2016) by Ann Garvin & the Woman who Didn’t Want to Grow Up
“The big question in my mind is not if your mom is coming back. It’s if Pete is, and if I’ll get a chance at having someone like you.”
