jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | books, life
Quoted: She had just broken up with a boyfriend she still loved and was desperate to justify her decision. “Can you believe it!” she shouted into the phone. “He hadn’t even heard of Pushkin!
- jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 30 2008 | books, history, life
Quoted: My new policy, more or less, is to get rid of most books once I’ve read them, keeping only those that I’m pretty sure I’ll ...
- jacoxnet | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 06 2007 | books, life, religion
Discussion of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy. Cecily is reading the first book in this trilogy now.
Quoted: Strictly speaking, the three novels that make up “His Dark Materials”—“The Golden Compass,” “The Subtle Knife,” and “The Amber Spyglass”—are children’s books, but their ideal reader is a precocious fifteen-year-old who long ago came to find the Harry Potter books intellectually thin.
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Interesting. I always love a good Kay Graham story. I also like his takes on scorecards and U2.
1 FaverViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: “Buffett began to be seen out with [Washington Post Publisher Katharine] Graham more and more. She made it her job to try to give him more polish. … [He] became a regular guest at Graham’s famous dinners, which he called her ‘Kay Parties.’ He enjoyed his status as the hayseed who was flummoxed by a lobster.”
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