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Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
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If you’re a fan of British spy novels, don’t miss Oliver Harris’s Shadow Intelligence —one of the best I’ve read a long time.

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Done & dusted. A rainy Seattle afternoon was the perfect time to finish this entertaining 1000 piece puzzle from Galison. Now I’m off to make a cuppa for myself.

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Highly recommend Dream State, Eric Puchner’s new novel. It’s the story of a young woman, her fiancé, and the fiancé’s best friend over 50 years. (There’s a chapter set in a bookstore that that I found both very funny & cringeworthy)

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Have long loved Galway Kinnell’s poetry; this one most especially.

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“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.” — Isaac Babel

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“…the sorry masquerade known as gender.” — Michael Cunningham’s The Hours —

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Done & dusted - another entertaining Cobble Hill cat 1000-piece puzzle.

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“For help he said I should read the new translation of a Gogol story called / ‘The Two Yvonne’s’ —love this poem by Jessica Greenbaum

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"It is early in the afternoon, and we are waiting for our / Nurses to bring us our injections of cyanide so the pain and / Boredom and drain on our fathers' estates will finally end." I've tried to locate other poems by Michael Swift but have been unsuccessful. I think this poem is brilliant

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Graham Greene: “…and in the confusing night he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another’s happiness.” --from The Heart of the Matter

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The late award-winning Australian crime novelist Peter Temple is one of my favorites (he wrote the terrific Jack Irish series), but his best work is The Broken Shore, a mystery/thriller/crime novel w/a social conscience. It’s on my list of top 5 mysteries ever. Give it a try

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“In a football match, everything is complicated by the presence of the other team” - Jean-Paul Sartre. No dummy, he

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‘Rimbaud and Verlaine, that precious pair of poets / Genius in both, but what is genius?’ - Conrad Aiken, whose poetry has, I am sad to say, all but been forgotten - (Rimbaud on the left, Verlaine on the right)

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Looking forward to reading these:

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This poem: it's by Matthew Buckley Smith, from his book Midlife -

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Another winner from Galison - so much fun to do. I listened to much of Connie Willis’s delightful novel To Say Nothing of the Dog

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Throughout the 30 or so Gregor Demarkian mysteries you run across lines like this, which I love and are why I reread all of Jane Haddam’s series every third or 4th year. I wish I had interviewed her

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A real treat to do this 1000-piecer from eeBoo, a puzzle company rapidly becoming my favorite. I was re-listening to Making Money, one of my favorite Terry Pratchett novels while I was putting the puzzle together.

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Love this photo of author Karen Henry Clark giving a poster featuring her book Library Girl--the story of how my childhood reading and wonderful librarians at the Parkman branch of the Detroit Public Library made me the person I am

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