"For us, our house is not insentient matter—it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never come home from an absence that its face does not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we can not enter it unmoved."
—Mark Twain, 1896
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Percolations

I know I haven’t percolated in a few months but sometimes a book needs just the right time to discover it’s rightful owner.
It’s been a while since I’ve been lost in a good tome and I’m so looking forward to it.


304 pages
Minotaur Books
murder mystery

Victorian London 1856;
forensic medicine;
specimen collectors;
new theories of evolution;
pathology.
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352 pages
Random House
YA - gothic
vintage photography

A remote mysterious island off the coast of Wales;
an abandoned orphanage (or is it?);
a grandfather’s story …… 
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416 pages
Mariner Books
fantasy

Philosophy;
language theory;
conundrums of time paradoxes;
and science.
A linear narrative about a young graduate student who discovers a fourth dimension in a rare book that should not have been found.
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336 pages
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
(Written in the First Person Plural)

An eccentric professor of Shakespearean studies
and his three daughters who are reluctantly reunited.


“……we are not fated to do anything, that we have chosen everything in our lives, that there is no such thing as destiny. And we would be lying.”

1 comment:

g said...

That house is a bit "wordman" like don't u think?

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