“I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.” The story of the Compson Family is told in The Sound and the […]
Fiction
“‘Life,’ wrote a friend of mine, ‘is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.'” Set in the early 20th century, A Room With a View is a classic novel about a girl coming of age and trying to figure out […]
A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
“‘… so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.'” Miles is a boy who finds no enjoyment in anything. School bores him. He walks quickly from place to place not noticing anything. He finds no enjoyment in any of his toys or books. Then, […]
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
“‘I’m in disguise and running away from my husband’s best friend, who can remember the future,’ she said, because her mind was too full to conjure lies. ‘I’m trying to beat him back to his house now, so that I might steal his clockwork octopus, which runs on random gears.'” […]
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would […]
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
“And for the past year, I’ve told myself I should have died with them. I tell myself that every day. But my heart stubbornly keeps on beating. And I’m still alive. Utterly miserable and still alive.” Diane has spent the last year of her life consumed by grief, barely stepping […]
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand
“I’d always had a lousy poker face … I got away with very little. Which is why I tried to keep fairly straight these days. It simplifies things.” Callahan is a cop turned private investigator turned house-cleaning business owner. A chance encounter with an old friend due to a maid […]
Every Crooked Nanny by Mary Kay Andrews (Kathy Hogan Trocheck)
“I had an unshakable fear of horses ever since I had fallen from one on a trail ride. After that, I had sworn never to get near them again, and yet I was now moving to a horse farm.” Gracyn is about to start her senior year in high school […]
Gypsy Magic (Book 1 of Gypsy Magic Trilogy) by Tonya ...
“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town …” Faulkner is a great writer. Reading his works is like taking a breath of fresh air after being stuck inside for days. I have read good books by good […]
Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner
“I am not what you call a civilized man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!” Something interesting has been found in […]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
by Jules Verne