Fausti's Book Quest

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• To Kill A Mockingbird (audio)
  on Dec 9, 2014
  I've read To Kill a Mockingbird many times.  I probably wouldn't have been ready for another reread if it weren't for I Kill the Mockingbird, which I read and adored a few months ago.  As I wandered the library stacks a couple of weeks ago,...
• Rose Under Fire
  on Jul 2, 2014
  Rose Under Fire  by Elizabeth WeinThis is sort of a sequel to Code Name Verity and it certainly lives up to its predecessor.  I found Verity to be thrilling, harrowing and life-affirming, which considering Verity's fate, is a smid...
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
  on Jul 1, 2014
  How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia  by Mohsin HamidThis book made it into this year's Tournament of Books, only to be knocked out in the first round by Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for a Time Being. I haven't read the Ozecki yet, despite checking out...
• COYER Summer Challenge ... and All the Stuff I Didn't Do this Spring.
  on Jun 30, 2014
       So, I'm over a week late posting this, because time just gets away from me.  I've come to the conclusion that I will never be a juggler. I can't keep multiple balls in the air and I certainly can't have too many projects/inte...
• Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
  on Apr 25, 2014
  Phenomenal WomanPretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The cur...
• On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats and Wish You Were Here by Incubus
  on Apr 24, 2014
  On First Looking Into Chapman's HomerMuch have I traveled in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western isles have I beenWhich bards in fealty to Apolo hold.Oft of one wide expanse had I been toldThat deep browed H...
• The Tyger by William Blake and Anna Begins by Counting Crows
  on Apr 23, 2014
  The TygerTyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand d...
• Resume by Dorothy Parker and Capital G by Nine Inch Nails
  on Apr 22, 2014
  ResumeRazors pain you;Rivers are damp;Acids stains you;And drugs cause cramp.Guns aren't lawful;Nooses give;Gas smells awful;You might as well live.~ Dorothy Parkerimage from lauralannes.comI know this one seems like a downer, but it always gives me...
• Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson and These Are Days by 10,000 Maniacs
  on Apr 17, 2014
  "Hope" is the thing with feathers"Hope" is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—And sings the tune without the words—And never stops—at all—And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—And sore must be the storm—That could abash th...
• The Prayer of Saint Francis and (Where is the) Tenderness
  on Apr 16, 2014
  The Prayer of Saint FrancisLord, make me an instrument of your peaceWhere there is hatred, let me sow loveWhere there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where th...

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