"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." (Emily Dickinson)
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Request: When you reference something in the book, please let us know where it is so we can all read along. Include the chapter number, page number, and the paragraph number. Like this: (C3, P245, G3) Thanks!
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What made you laugh/cry/think
Lines you loved/hated/didn't understand
Characters or scenes you identified with
Something you disagreed with/embraced
Just one request: When you reference something in the book, please let us know where it is so we can all read along. Include the chapter number, page number, and the paragraph number. Like this: (C3, P245, G3).
Happy Reading!
BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
6 Robert Frost Poems (3 Group Assigned & You Pick 3)
War as I Knew It by George S. Patton Jr.
Secret Lives of First Ladies by Cormac O'Brian
6 comments:
I really liked the recollection of Ira & Maggie's beginning to their relationship-- from the mistaken death and condolence letter, to the tension with the father, to the kiss on the doorstep, and the singing at Serena's wedding. Everyone has their own story of "how they met," and learning about theirs made me think about my own... what tender and special moments that began what I love now! I love the phrase "all because two people fell in love..."
fth: I agree with you. I enjoy hearing people's "love stories." As unique as they all are, there seems to be a common thread that ties us all together.
Maggie's relationhip with Mr. Gabriel. "All Mr. Gabriel was, in fact, was Maggie's attempt to find an earlier version of Ira..." Of course the visual of Maggie flying down the corridor in a laundry cart only to be pulled up in front of the director and stodgy Mr. Gabriel had me laughing.
I'd like to do what Serena mentions on page 55...step outside my own life.
(P113)
Serena's conversation with Maggie about why she was marrying Max really made me think.
(P203)
"Well, what a ninny," Fiona said. "If marriage was such a drag when she loved the guy, what would it be like when she didn't?"
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