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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The Dark Forest: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2 (2008/2015) by Cixin Liu & The Future of Humanity
“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).
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The Three-Body Problem (2006/2014) by Cixin Liu & the Remembrance of Earth’s Past
“She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.”
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Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami & the Songs of Seeking Love
“Well, to me, that’s what love is. Not that anyone can understand me, though.”
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Hills Like Giant Elephants (2016) by CG FEWSTON
A short story
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Author Interview: Darren R Leo & His Novel: THE TREES BENEATH US
“I write to create.”
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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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The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles & the Saving Grace of Art
“He seemed as he stood there to see all his age, its tumultuous life, its iron certainties and rigid conventions, its repressed emotion and facetious humor, its cautious science and incautious religion, its corrupt politics and immutable castes, as the great hidden enemy of all his deepest yearnings.”
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Daniel Martin (1977) by John Fowles & the Artist’s Search for True Art
“I create, I am: all the rest is dream, though concrete and executed.”
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Hills Like Giant Elephants (2016) by CG FEWSTON
A short story
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Adultery (2014) by Paulo Coelho & the Object of Love
“To love abundantly is to live abundantly. To love forever is to live forever.”
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In the Evil Day (2015) by Richard Adams Carey & the Tragedy in Colebrook, America
“It had rained Saturday night, but the rain had dwindled to a stop before dawn, and across the river, above and beyond the belfry and steeple, the green whaleback of Monadnock was wreathed in gossamer wisps of fog.”
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The Good Luck Cat (2014) by Lissa Warren & the Truth Behind One Woman’s Smile
“And then, on Christmas Eve, a miracle occurred: Ting-Pei Warren, the Judeo-Christian Buddhist cat, high on catnip and tuna water, silently scaled the six-foot spruce while her family sat by the fire, making short work of a pecan-encrusted cheese log. The three of us turned just in time to see her, a silver star atop the highest bough. And just in time to see her lose her balance and take the entire tree down with her.”
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Journey of an American Son (2014) by John Hazen & Ben Albert’s Historical Saga to India
“I want to tell you a story. This story is about the man you’re named after and about the woman who looked after you early in your life and about the man she called her American son.”
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Wind/Pinball (1979/1980) by Haruki Murakami & the Existential Mood of Being Forgotten
“There are wells, deep wells, dug in our hearts. Birds fly over them.”
