Will Donnelly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Will Donnelly

“After a while what is not written never happened.” ~Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Passenger’ #SundaySentence

Will Donnelly

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” ~Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’ #SundaySentence

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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” ~Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’ #SundaySentence

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“Tokyo doesn’t so much sleep as pause to allow crucial repairs to its infrastructure.” ~William Gibson, ‘Pattern Recognition’ #SundaySentence

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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." ~William Gibson, 'Neuromancer' (which I'll be teaching in the coming spring (!!!))

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“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” ~Daniel Keyes, ‘Flowers for Algernon’ #SundaySentence

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“It’s like leaving the Hope Diamond in a bus station locker: as long as nobody really understands its value, it’s perfectly safe where it is.” ~Nick Cutter, ‘The Deep’ #SundaySentence

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I haven’t seen my copy of JG Ballard’s ‘Crash’ in over a year, and that loss somehow worries me more than if it were happening with any of my other books.

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“They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.” ~Cormac McCarthy, ‘Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West’ #SundaySentence

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“Frida remembered how undark it had always been in L.A., the sky the green-gray color of something miasmic until well after midnight.” ~Edan Lepucki, ‘California’ #SundaySentence