Remember That One Book...?

Books you almost forgot (or wish you could)

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“It’s a very remarkable story.” “Remarkable’s a well-chosen word. It doesn’t give you away.” ― James Hilton, Random Harvestc

What makes Random Harvest remarkable?

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Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

Paperback, 254 pages Published October 1964 by Dell Publishing Co. Inc. (first published 1949) Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13. Just when it seems that Brat will pull off the deception, he discovers the truth about Patrick’s disappearance, a dark secret that threatens to tear apart the family…

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A Cast of Killers by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

A Cast of Killers by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

A Cast of Killers  Sidney D. Kirkpatrick Hardcover, 301 pages Published June 1986 by Dutton Books   The blurb: On February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Reports of strange activities at the scene of the crime circulated soon after. When the police arrived, was the head of Paramount…

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Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (via books-n-quotes)

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Remember all the books of Bible stories in the musty bookshelves at church?

I had forgotten this early 1970s Norman Vincent Peale volume until I rediscovered it on Open Library. The stories are about what you’d expect from old Norm, but the Grabianski illustrations are beautiful.

And Jesus is inexplicably redheaded.

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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (via books-n-quotes)

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The Umbrella Maker’s Daughter by Janet Caird

A chilling study of the personality of a small town, as singular and alive as its inhabits

Remember that one book about cholera and witch hunts?