Great literature continues apace: Portuguese author and Nobel Literature Laureate José Saramago was born Nov. 16, 1922…
Saramago is a self-declared pessimist who nonetheless describes the aspirations and attemps by people to lead tolerable lives even when hindered on all sides by bureaucratic or totalitarian regimes…
The Nobel Committee gave this motivation in 1998 for selecting Saramago as an author ”who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality…”
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This book was BY FAR my favorite book when I was little. I think I checked it out of the library every other time I went. I’ve read this book more times than I can count, and still am not sick of it. In fact, I may bring my copy back from my parents’ house when I go home for Christmas.
I also lovelovelove all the Little House books and the Little Women books. The most exciting part about visiting South Dakota was knowing I was on the same territory Laura Ingalls wrote about. Though Manny turned out to be kind of a bum deal, I thought their story was so romantic. I also think about getting up in the morning to start the coal fireplace when I get out of bed here and they haven’t turned the radiators on. I also lived near Plum Creek in CO, which in my head is the same Plum Creek that the Ingalls lived next to when they lived in their thatched home in the side of a hill, when the ox put a hoof through the roof.
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The Reader… by *bittersweetvenom
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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A bookcase with a GIRL !!! WANTED
Mary Bonham Carter 
and you may ask yourself, well, how did i get here?
For sure you know the guy !
ahaaaaa ! Dustin Huffman
