HeyJudeNotJudy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Jude Hopkins. Novel "Babe in the Woods" available now. Essays in Los Angeles Times, The Belladonna, other places, other times. https://t.co/rVDSC0Ufiy

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
Scott A. Sandage
"The losers among us, people who bear failure as an identity, embody the American fear that our fondest hopes and our worst nightmares may be one and the same" — Scott A. Sandage, "Born Losers" #SundaySentence https://t.co/D3GBmwttdA
Paperback, 2006
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The Eve of St. Agnes: A Poem...
John Keats
It's John Keats's b-day as well as Halloween. Who but an English teacher to connect the two? Keats's poem "Isabella or the Pot of Basil" celebrates both man and eeriness in a poem featuring Izzy beheading her murdered lover and putting said head in a flower pot w/basil. https://t.co/6BL0ztoY06
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Don't let the chilblains get your toes in this blast of cold winter air. Charlotte Bronte gives us a description of such a malady in "Jane Eyre": https://t.co/8e3iKaqYCl
Paperback, 2006
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Melancholic Joy: On Life Worth Living
Brian Treanor
“All things shine,” Brian Treanor writes in “Melancholic Joy,” "if only we know how to look." No host of angels needed, he writes, just receptivity to the “bittersweet feeling associated with a brief moment of transcendent beauty." https://t.co/YrOml8Z8Oh
Paperback, 2021
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There Is No Frigate Like a Book: He Ate and Drank the Precious Words, A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
Emiy Dickinson
How tragic that young students slipped in math and reading skills. As for reading, kids need to know "there is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away" (Dickinson). Books are crucial. Whenever I read to my college freshmen, they were stilled, rapt. Stories, friends.
Hardcover, 2017
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Ulysses
James Joyce
It's James Joyce's birthday. "Plenty to see and hear and feel yet...Feel live warm beings near you...Warm fullblooded life" — "Ulysses"
Paperback, 1990
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Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
"She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out" — Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland" #sundaysentence https://t.co/iUa7TEU900
Paperback, 2015
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
"If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed" — Thomas Hardy, "Explanatory Note to the 1st ed. of 'Tess of the D'urbervilles'" #SundaySentence https://t.co/JbH8n9ZxNp
Hardcover, 2020
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The Sacred Fount: Novel
Henry James
"Who can imagine free selection —which is the beautiful, terrible whole of art—without free difficulty?" —Henry James, "The Art of the Novel" #SundaySentence https://t.co/KAe1qoj6Ol
Paperback, 1995
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The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces
Henry James
"Who can imagine free selection —which is the beautiful, terrible whole of art—without free difficulty?" —Henry James, "The Art of the Novel" #SundaySentence https://t.co/KAe1qoj6Ol
Paperback, 2011
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