Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“It’s a great art, is rowing. It’s the finest art there is. It’s a symphony of motion.”
“The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.”
“Difficulties are inevitable.”
“Bribing of Librarians”
“Our house is the future as well as the past.”
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
“Whatever else it was, it was one hell of a summer.”
“Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread.”
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
“Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess.”
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
