Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.”
“Jefferson’s advice on how to win friends and influence people did not have much appeal for a pugnacious John Adams.”
“Sometimes, you will feel as if you have rowed right off the planet and are now rowing among the stars.”
Brown Bagger’s Book Club Selections
“Just Go Knock on the Door!”
“It is the only home I remember.”
“Message in the Closet”
“Hunting makes you animal, but the death of an animal makes you human.”
“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments when you shouldn’t be?”
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
“I was born with the devil in me . . . I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
