Matthew Schlieper Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Matthew Schlieper

"It was a sad moment, but sad moments were to be celebrated as much as happy ones, or half the liquor in the world would go undrunk." /#SundaySentence from Mick Herron's "Slough House"(#7 in his wonderful Slough House series).

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"The sound hovered mockingly once they'd gone; it lingered in the stairwell, fluttered about like a moth in search of a bulb."/From Mick Herron's "Spook Street". #SundaySentence

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"With the fat applauding in the fryers, the exhaust fans roaring, and the boom box blasting the heartsick kundimans of Benito's Manila childhood, the clientele makes free with their secrets."/From Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union #SundaySentence

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@mattzollerseitz Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. A wonderful writer from Ireland who puts his own unique spin on the phrasing & sentences he uses.

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@harrysiegel Someone by Alice McDermott. Love how it spans from the 1920's to the 1970's. You witness how the main characters change & also the changes within Brooklyn itself.

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"What you know about women," replied Maude, "could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer."-#SundaySentence from John Boyne's "The Heart's Invisible Furies"

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My #SundaySentence is a favorite from @john_boyne 's The Absolutist. "Above us the sky is lousy with aircraft and the dark blue that forces its way through the grey clouds holds a certain beauty, but it's dangerous to look up so I keep moving, my heart pounding (1)

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"You return to that earlier time armed with the present, and no matter how dark that world was, you do not leave it unlit." -Michael Ondaatje's "Warlight" #SundaySentence

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"He looks across the river to where the sun is coming up like a stabwound, leaving smudges of dirty light on the New York City skyline." #SundaySentence From "Stolen Child" in Colum McCann's story collection "Fishing the Sloe Black River"

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"Excuse me, I have to burn this page and write a letter to God while it's on fire."-From "The Starlight on Idaho", a story from Denis Johnson's short story collection "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden". #SundaySentence

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