bookshelves: essays, philosophy, nonfiction, published-2007, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, sciences, fraudio Read from January 03 to 05, 2014 The Portable Atheist read by Nicolas Ballanthology of atheist writing through the ages.1. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens2. Lucretius: from the N...
All in all, this is a great representation of what life is like as an intern. It's overtime and angry consultants and the camaraderie of your fellow interns. It's exhausting and terrifying in equal parts and I think the book does a good job of showing it. I also liked how being a doctor starts to im...
There is a misnomer on the cover of this book. Some short stories in this volume have not been commissioned for the book. Several of them have appeared in various magazines and collections (some have appeared over a decade ago).This is okay, for this is the first time that they are all collected t...
I was not in love with this book. There are quite a few good things about it, but in the end its hero Robert Angstrom is not that interesting or appealing to me. The prose is good. It reads easily and well. It's an examination of lower middle class America in the 50's, its meaninglessness, anxie...
I think reading this slowly from late Summer to Md-Autumn is the perfect time.Oh, and... it so was not what I did remember from the movie with Nicholson, when I was a child.
The title is a good summation of the character and plot. Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom runs: runs out on his heavily pregnant wife and two-year old son, runs to the arms of a prostitute, runs into the minister who invites him to play golf. (When Rabbit shows up at the minister's house, he slaps the ass of...
The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
This is a collection of 33 essays on short story writing--introduced by no less a literary light than John Updike. It features an essay on "The Finer Points of Characterization" by Orson Scott Card and "The Carrot and Some (Writing) Tricks. But I don't recognize any of the names of the other contrib...
"An imagined kiss is more easily controlled, more thoroughly enjoyed, and less cluttery than an actual kiss. To kiss in dream is wholly pleasant. First, the woman is one of your selection, not just anyone who happens to be in your arms at the moment. Second, the deed is garnished with a little sprin...
I'm going to cheat a bit here because this isn't the edition I'm reading. I'm reading the free ebooks (linked below), but there isn't an easy way of noting "hey, I'm reading both of these." Both are actually short stories rather than what we'd consider books, and my argument is that if you want to r...
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