Asnia Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden
Michael Bryson
Prynne reminds me of the cleric shouting Friday sermons in the mosque near my childhood memories (Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden Michael Bryson Arpi Movsesian) https://t.co/3oV5gAFvH4
Hardcover, 2017
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Anne Carson
Next time someone advises you against adjectives, tell them that adjectives are "the latches of being"! Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red. https://t.co/ZD8lMyUOrT
Paperback, 1999
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children.
Paperback, 2006
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Paperback, 1978
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor.
Paperback, 1988
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
She has red hair and is "roller-skate skinny," a metaphor that, Salinger seems to be saying, is like jazz; you either understand it when you hear it, or you never will. Cliffs Notes. The Catcher in the Rye.
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Paperback, 2003
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Why I prefer walking over driving: "I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden!" Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Paperback, 2012
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
Paperback, 2004
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Love's Work
Gillian Rose
children left unanchored from love get this: “A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.” ― Gillian Rose, Love's Work.
Paperback, 2011
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