So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Jeffrey Eugenides, were you a specter in my Contemporary Fiction class? I swear to you, I've taken the class described in the beginning of The Marriage Plot -- with the same people. The Marriage Plot should be mandatory reading for those of us who have ever found life's meanings in a book. The novel is a delightful, relatable, serious, and seriously funny story of three very different people coming of age in the early 1980s. A truly fantastic read.
Beautifully written, The Turning is an amazing book of monumental proportions. The modern Winesburg, Ohio; Tim Winton outdoes himself with this collection of stories.
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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mo-Mo75, November 12, 2011
Jeffrey Eugenides, were you a specter in my Contemporary Fiction class? I swear to you, I've taken the class described in the beginning of The Marriage Plot -- with the same people. The Marriage Plot should be mandatory reading for those of us who have ever found life's meanings in a book. The novel is a delightful, relatable, serious, and seriously funny story of three very different people coming of age in the early 1980s. A truly fantastic read.The Turning: New Stories by Tim Winton
Mo-Mo75, January 18, 2010
Beautifully written, The Turning is an amazing book of monumental proportions. The modern Winesburg, Ohio; Tim Winton outdoes himself with this collection of stories.