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Bookies & Milk: February 2010
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Saturday, February 13, 2010. He references a lot of things I have to look up to get. And at the risk of sounding like somebody on Yahoo! Labels: On the Road. Wednesday, February 10, 2010. YOU in the afterlife. This you have to see. Your eyes hurt, and you itch, because you can't take a shower until it's your time to take your marathon two-hundred-day shower. I'm so looking...
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Bookies & Milk: July 2009
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Quarter in a mud puddle. After reading the first of the 13 stories in Elizabeth Strout's "Olive Kitteridge," I wasn't sure I was going to like this book. How can you like a novel if you can't like, or at least relate to, its protagonist? Each of these stories reveals a new side of Olive through the eyes of her fellow townspeople. Angie has played ...
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Bookies & Milk: November 2012
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Thursday, November 1, 2012. My next thing was "The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte" but I have put him on hold in favor of the new am Homes: "May We Be Forgiven." Branwell is fascinating, but when I get a shiny new hardback in the mail and it's signed by the author, I have eat it before it spoils. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Million Little Pieces. A Room of Ones Own.
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Bookies & Milk: Fun and games until ...
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Monday, March 19, 2012. Fun and games until . There was no past, no present, no future. Everything living is part of the whole. We are all bound, one to the other, through time and eternity. I felt myself on the brink of some tremendous discovery when I fell asleep.". Du Maurier's sense of humor never ceases to surprise me. Labels: Daphne du Maurier. The House on the Strand.
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Bookies & Milk: August 2009
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Tuesday, August 11, 2009. The only olive i'll consume. Highlights from Winter Concert. Funny to have tickets in order to get into a church.". What a lonely thing to be a young girl! Mrs Lydia was looking at her with those new eyes; unnerving to have a sixteen-year-old's eyes looking at you from an old woman's head.". Another plot-driving narrative, though this one includes...
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Bookies & Milk: Help me Daphne du Maurier, you're my only hope
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Friday, January 6, 2012. Help me Daphne du Maurier, you're my only hope. It's the notes I was supposed to report back on. Ugh. There are some really beautiful parallels in the lives of the four family members profiled in this book. Janet, Joseph and Christopher all died in connection with the Janet Coombe. Labels: Daphne du Maurier. Monday, January 09, 2012. Let the Right ...
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Bookies & Milk: January 2012
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Monday, January 23, 2012. We had softshell crab and swordfish, too! Friday, January 6, 2012. Read anything good lately? I was asked this question by one of my bosses today, and when I replied, "Yeah I started reading this Gertrude Stein book . " he replied, "So no." What is this magical gentleman reading? Help me Daphne du Maurier, you're my only hope. Joseph throws his li...
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Bookies & Milk: May 2010
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Sunday, May 30, 2010. How did it take me three months to finish "On the Road"? Labels: Daphne du Maurier. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Million Little Pieces. A Room of Ones Own. And the Ass Saw the Angel. Central Park in the Dark. How to Talk About Books You Havent Read. Ill Never Be Young Again. Let the Right One In. Me Talk Pretty One Day. Memoirs of a Survivor.
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Bookies & Milk: I've never been old before
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Sunday, July 22, 2012. I've never been old before. Anyone doubting Du Maurier's ability to hook you with suspense early in her career should read the first chapter of this book more closely. Dick's description of impending death as he stands on the edge of a bridge ready to jump was more than enough to convince me I was at home in this novel. Labels: Daphne du Maurier.
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Bookies & Milk: March 2012
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I've got a library copy of Gone With the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! So says Neely, from "Valley of the Dolls". Tuesday, March 27, 2012. I mean, raisin tart? Did she try to poison them each in turn for their family fortune? Or were Philip and Ambrose really so similar in character that they both misread her actions out of paranoia, and it's only a coincidence that they both became ill during their time with her? The driver of the car in Alabama received a jail sentence; but in Cornw...