I love this city - don't get me wrong - but I love the feeling that you get moving away from it on The Island Ferry, feeling the quality of the air change as the breeze moves across the water and licks the grime off your skin. The girls are so excited they could burst and we contemplate the possibility of needing to shield innocent bystanders who don't realize (or have forgotten) that a ferry ride can produce spontaneous gleebustion. But only minutes later we are approaching the dock, the boat hissing and inching, with the eruption of the horn, which startles all in sight, excepting the family of swans, with four cygnets, a few feet away.
And then The Island: a world apart.
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
Carol Shields Republic of Love
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Stolen and Dime Store Magic Kelley Armstrong
White as Snow Tanith Lee
Effigy Alissa York
Radiance Shaena Lambert
Pulpy & Midge Jessica Westhead
Let Me In John Ajvide Lindqvist
Getting the Girl Susan Juby
The Golden Arrow Mary Webb
Blankets Craig Thompson
Chiggers Hope Larson
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (1) Bryan Lee O'Malley
Fresh from the Farm Jeff Lemire
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Borrowed Finery Paula Fox (memoir)
Call of the Dove Fadia Faqir
Case Histories Kate Atkinson
Eucalyptus Murray Bail
Fixing Shadows Susan Barrett
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
Liars and Saints Maile Meloy
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
We Need to Talk about Kevin Lionel Shriver
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