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Book of the week...

"You are resolved then to have him?"

"I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected to with me."

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

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I am due for my first chemo on Monday morning. With a life driven by sports, sales, and Catholicism, my dad's MO will doubtlessly involve attacking it, staying positive, and having faith.

The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan

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The book of the week...

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"He tried to teach her to be a real white, to revive for her his failed dreams of an American -born noble, to supress her fondness for pickled iguana and armadillo strew. He attempted almost everything except asking himself whether this was the way to make her happy."

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Garcia Marquez is most famous for One Hundred Years of Solitude and for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He has an amazing flair for writing the fantastic as if it were common and everyday... "magical realism", I think they've named it.

Big Tease!

I was perusing a new-to-me blog http://www.sixlitchicks.blogspot.com/ and found a fun idea. You take whatever you are currently reading and randomly turn to a page. Choose a couple of sentences (without spoiling anything important) and cite them as a teaser for your fellow readers. Be sure to give the title and author.

Here we go!

"He had seen many dogs in the last two days, and he had tried to shut them out of his mind. They were pathetic, and he did not like to think about what was happening. Some of them looked starved; some of them looked too well-fed." p. 41

Stewart, George R. Earth Abides. New York:Ballantine Books, 1949.