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Tag: book

  • Books: Delta of Venus

    At least three people over the weekend have asked me: “What are you reading?” Without a wince, unapologetically and unashamedly I replied: “Porn.” Or perhaps more accurately I should have said erotica. Because that was what it was. Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus was a journey into the hot and bothered, into the sexual deviances and discoveries of…

  • TBL Book Review: The Giver (1993)

    The Giver (1993) follows a boy named Jonas through the thirteenth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to “Sameness,” a plant that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past…

  • The Book List

    These books are ones I associate with turning points in my life: my foray into the rebellious, my love affair with the nonsensical, my enduring hunger for the philosophical. Some of the books here are so loved that I have two copies, one to read and one to cherish. Some of them aren’t even with…