Tag: romance
group name: bookadventure
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June 09, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
This book is an alphabetically language of lovers and will inspire many journey's both geographical & emotional.
Excerpt from the book:
"They were married beside an anonymous . . . more
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June 09, 2008 11:50 PM EDT --
The book opens with an epigraph by Elizabeth Bishop, excerpted from her poem "Questions of Travel":
"Think of the long trip home/ Should we have stayed at home and thought of . . . more
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June 09, 2008 11:59 PM EDT --
The physical descriptions of Ambrose and Zipper are parallel in structure, with paragraphs devoted to their tastes in clothing, in music and literature, in food, and brief descriptions of their appearances . . . more
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June 11, 2008 02:39 AM EDT --
As "average" as everyone considers Ambrose to be, he has some exceptional qualities, including his ability to visualize history as though seeing through time.
What does this instinct . . . more
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June 11, 2008 02:43 AM EDT --
Ambrose loves to walk, to experience his life through walking, referring to his favorite Paris route as his flânez and wearing a self-circumscribed path through his London neighborhood.
Does . . . more
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June 11, 2008 02:52 AM EDT --
"Ambrose Zephyr liked what he liked and didn't like what he didn't like." Consider the ongoing debate Ambrose and Zipper have about the Rockeby Venus.
What do you think of their . . . more
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June 09, 2008 11:54 PM EDT --
CS Richardson has called this book "a fable, a parable on the notions of love and loss and relationships, and how far you would go in the name of love."
How does the tone of fable impact . . . more
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