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 Divisadero (Vintage International)Best Price: $7.89 Michael Ondaatje writes in his new novel, "[T]here is the hidden presence of others in us,... |  My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler RampikeBest Price: $13.95 Typical of Oates, this a dark novel, but darker than many of her others. The protagonist often... |  Red Bird: PoemsBest Price: $13.39 Some typical and upbeat poetry. But, felt contents were a little less than authors usual... |  Animal Farm: Centennial EditionBest Price: $7.81 The story is well described in the other reviews, especially in the first one above from the... |  A Poetry HandbookBest Price: $8.10 Mary Oliver makes variations of poetry styles clear and useful to a serious writer of poetry or... |
 Max Notes 1984 (George Orwell's 1984)Best Price: $1.17 "1984" is George Orwell's warning of the dangers of a totalitarian society. The main... |  New and Selected Poems, Volume TwoBest Price: $5.64 A must to complete the set. For some reason, I bought volume 2 first. As an aficiando of Mary... |  The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Oxford Paperbacks)Best Price: $10.91 When I went to graduate school for a course of study that involved primarily reading, I did not... |  Homage to CataloniaBest Price: $7.49 "Homage to Catalonia" has long passed from the shelf for current events to the shelf... |  A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other StoriesBest Price: $3.99 If you every had any thoughts on what the South was like pre 1964, then this certainly is the... |
 1984Best Price: $8.70 Orwell was a pioneer in this form of literature. His insight into a "possible" future... |  The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)Best Price: $10.20 This is a fantastic sampling of American memoir and reflections on race, gender, nature,... |  21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin Series)Best Price: $12.36 It was good to see that the author was still working on continuing the outstanding Aubrey -... |  Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series)Best Price: $1.85 Many complain that this volume lacks sufficient adventure, focusing too much on the manners of... |  Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.92 I confess that reading Ovid's Metamorphoses has left me a changed man. His focus on... |
 Running in the FamilyBest Price: $6.36 Ondaatje seems to be trying too hard. The language is overly flowery and the plot is often lost... |  The Mauritius CommandBest Price: $3.75 I enjoyed this book as much as the previous by the author. The continuous character development... |  Wise Blood: A NovelBest Price: $8.05 I'm a huge fan of Flannery O'Connor so when someone asked me to name my favourite novel I picked... |  The Nutmeg of ConsolationBest Price: $7.64 I love this series, I can't stop reading them. Well written, and descriptive, they really take... |  Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America)Best Price: $18.77 Now that I've read everything by O'Connor (including works that were part of her thesis for her... |
 Billy Budd and Other TalesBest Price: $1.13 I went into Billy Budd expecting fully unique characters, dynamic adventure scenes,... |  Big Mouth & Ugly GirlBest Price: $4.57 This was my first Oates book so I had no idea what to expect. What I got was a book with very... |  The Wine-Dark SeaBest Price: $6.25 From the opening chapter of "The Wine-Dark Sea," the 16th book in Patrick O'Brian's... |  The Hundred Days (Aubrey/Maturin Series)Best Price: $6.99 We made the mistake of buying this ABRIDGED version of The Hundred Days, not noticing the FINE... |  Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and HemingwayBest Price: $14.00 Joyce Carol Oates notes where the title for this volume comes from, as she quotes verse from... |
 Blonde: A NovelBest Price: $6.75 Ambivalent because that's how the book left me. Maybe confused, certainly affected. I had not... | Blonde: A Novel Best Price: $6.75 Ambivalent because that's how the book left me. Maybe confused, certainly affected. I had not... |  Blue at the MizzenBest Price: $6.66 While I have not read this group of books myself, I can tell you that my husband and son... |  Desolation Island (Aubrey Maturin Series)Best Price: $4.94 I enjoyed this book. Besides the fact that Napoleonic History is a hobby of mine, I believe... |  A Collection of EssaysBest Price: $5.50 A good writer can take you places; George Orwell, better than good, can take you places you... |
 H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey Maturin Series)Best Price: $1.75 This book, third in the wonderful series, is the first that makes one think that perhaps some... |  MetamorphosesBest Price: $5.00 I love this book! Originally a textbook for a Mythology class, I have kept it and read it... |  Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)Best Price: $4.99 I am a fan of Joyce Carol Oates and believe that even her worst work is better than most. She... |  The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey-Maturin)Best Price: $6.49 This last in the series was obviously thrown together. I believe that O'Brian said he was not... |  The Letter of MarqueBest Price: $5.94 The last few books in this series had gotten very complicated and very dark. This book hits a... |
 The Reverse of the MedalBest Price: $5.99 This book, which by all means should be read before "The Letter of Marque" is a... |  The Commodore (Aubrey-Maturin Series)Best Price: $7.88 Patrick O'Brian's "The Commodore" is the seventeenth book in Patrick O'Brian's... |  Treason's Harbour (Aubrey Maturin Series)Best Price: $6.00 I started reading this series a little more than a year ago, and have been pacing myself. I... |  The Ionian Mission (Aubrey Maturin Series)Best Price: $5.90 I've read all his books up to this one. All are good, but this is the worst. |  The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series)Best Price: $4.65 This deep into the Aubrey-Maturin canon, it seems pointless to write an in-depth review for an... |
 The Far Side of the World (Aubrey Maturin Series)Best Price: $2.00 This was perhaps one of the best novels in the series. For those that enjoyed the film, loosely... |  Mystery and Manners: Occasional ProseBest Price: $8.46 My husband purchased this book, but I'm going to write a review for it. He loves it, BUT...read... |  Burmese Days: A NovelBest Price: $6.00 With his very first novel, Orwell earned an honorable position on the crowded shelves of Raj... |  Essays (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)Best Price: $21.80 In these by times highly emotional essays written in the 1930s and 1940s George Orwell gives us... |  Shades of GrayBest Price: $2.57 I read this book as a preview for the upcoming year of Sonlight 3+4 curriculum. While I liked... |
 Our WorldBest Price: $12.32 OUR WORLD BY MARY OLIVER IS A MEMOIR AND A TRIBUTE TO MS. OLIVER'S LONG TIME PARTNER AND FRIEND... |  The Things They CarriedBest Price: $15.15 I thought this book was good in both what happens physically to soldiers body and what happens... |  Ovid: Amores, Metamorphoses : SelectionsBest Price: $26.48 I have been taking an intensive second year latin course, and we have used quite a few book... |  The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and WarBest Price: $17.16 One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was... |  The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'ConnorBest Price: $11.99 My thirty-five-year-old copy of this book is worn to tatters, and not just because of O'Connor's... |
 Waiting for Lefty and Other PlaysBest Price: $6.50 As a leftist, inspiring pieces of literature are not exactly few and far between - but ones this... |  Everything That Rises Must ConvergeBest Price: $8.10 Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964) was a Southern writer and a Catholic writer, the former obvious... |  The Violent Bear It Away: A NovelBest Price: $8.14 I am in awe of Flannery O'Connor. After studying her in college, I finally sat down to read... |  Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes ElectraBest Price: $3.50 Its the only play i read in the book. It was an interesting read. The dialect is sometimes... |  The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and SuspenseBest Price: $11.20 While agreeing with fans of Joyce Carol Oates that her prose and general writing style are... |
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