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Ducks, Newburyport
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The fact that I loved Ducks, Newburyport to bits, although I am aware that some things did not go so well, the fact that since I finished reading this novel I have been feeling like a part of me is gone, the fact that now I have to literally force myself not to start all over again, the fact that I am grateful to my Goodreads friends for following my crazy - crazee! - journey and making this reading experience even more special.
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Reading Progress
May 18, 2020
– Shelved as:
to-read
May 18, 2020
– Shelved
July 7, 2020
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Started Reading
July 8, 2020
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1.0%
"'the fact that, seriously, my life’s all shopping, chopping, slicing, splicing, spilling, frilling, fooling, cooling, heating, boiling, broiling, frying, and macrophages, Tuesday, dentist, trash, mush,'
Ruth Miller Kempster, Housewife, 1935."
Ruth Miller Kempster, Housewife, 1935."
July 9, 2020
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3.0%
"Getting slightly obsessed with this book! Yesterday I saw this on my way home:
...and of course my immediate association was:
'the fact that folks just expect you to know certain things like the word hydrangea, they do, or some people do anyway, hydrangea, hydrangea, and if you don’t they think you’re weird'"
...and of course my immediate association was:
'the fact that folks just expect you to know certain things like the word hydrangea, they do, or some people do anyway, hydrangea, hydrangea, and if you don’t they think you’re weird'"
July 13, 2020
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12.0%
"...'the fact that elephants would probably be amazed if they knew how much we think about them, all the times we’d painted them and photographed them and dreamt about them, the fact that elephants are scared of mice, though I think it depends on the elephant, and maybe on the mouse'...
LeRoy Neiman, Elephant Family."
LeRoy Neiman, Elephant Family."
July 15, 2020
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18.0%
"...the fact that my obsession with Ducks, Newburyport is in full bloom, the fact that yesterday I had an inner struggle because I saw this and wanted to buy it immediately:
the fact that I won the battle but regret it already, the fact that I can't stop writing 'the fact that', the fact that I will miss this novel when I finally finish it..."
the fact that I won the battle but regret it already, the fact that I can't stop writing 'the fact that', the fact that I will miss this novel when I finally finish it..."
July 16, 2020
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28.0%
"...'the fact that maybe only babies liked my 1 cakes, the fact that they make the best kind of customer because they’ve never seen a cake before, striped onesie,1, the fact that a one-year-old probably wouldn’t notice if Michelangelo himself had drawn pictures all over his cake, though my efforts were more Salvador Dalí'...
[Pinterest]"
[Pinterest]"
July 18, 2020
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32.0%
"...'the fact that there are some female frogs who decide on which frog to mate with, depending on the number of croaks he can do, the fact that they like the ones who croak the most, the fact that it’s news to me that frogs can count, the fact that Jake can’t'...
Andy Warhol, 'Pine Barren Tree Frog II.294' (From 'Endangered Species Suite')."
Andy Warhol, 'Pine Barren Tree Frog II.294' (From 'Endangered Species Suite')."
July 20, 2020
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43.0%
"Boating in 'The Sound of Music': Julie Andrews promised to keep an eye on the girl who couldn’t swim "but in the chaos of the boat turning over Julie Andrews forgot all about the kid, who was left to struggle out on her own, [...] the fact that this is another reason why every kid should learn how to swim, just in case they’re ever in a boat with Julie Andrews, the fact that she’ll be too busy yodeling to save them"."
July 22, 2020
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50.0%
"About "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" by Mary Cassatt: 'the fact that the little girl looks so funny and fed up, the fact that you know, there aren’t enough paintings of bored, sulky kids, the fact that kids actually look great when they’re mad, though it would make them even madder if you told them so'...
"Little Girl in a Blue Armchair""
"Little Girl in a Blue Armchair""
July 25, 2020
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62.0%
"'the fact that sometimes I wish we were all chimpanzees, because maybe we’d relax more if we didn’t think we were all so gosh darned important, the fact that maybe chimps think they’re important though too, the fact that of course they do'...
Banksy, Parliament"
Banksy, Parliament"
July 26, 2020
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76.0%
"...'the fact that Joyce Carol Oates hates pear trees, the fact that they tried farming pears when she was a kid, the fact that they had a whole pear orchard [...], the fact that we often see signs by the road, “FREE PEARS,” same with zucchini, the fact that people say don’t leave your car window open around here in the summer, or when you get back it’ll be floor-to-ceiling zucchini in there'..."
July 27, 2020
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84.0%
"'the fact that in Tennessee it’s illegal to shoot animals from your car, unless it’s a whale, the fact that they make an exception for that, the fact that Tennessee’s not even on the coast, so unless a lot of whales swim upstream from SeaWorld or something, Orlando, killer whale show but anyway, you’re free to shoot them '...
Michael Serafino"
Michael Serafino"
July 28, 2020
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90.0%
"...'the fact that some flautist sued his own orchestra for ruining his hearing during a Wagner concert, the fact that he was sitting right in front of the horn section and the noise reached decibel levels equivalent to being inside the engine of a plane, the fact that he’s never been the same since, acoustic shock, and it’s all because of Wagner'..."
July 29, 2020
– Shelved as:
united-states
July 29, 2020
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Finished Reading
July 30, 2020
– Shelved as:
animals
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By the way, the word 'pronto' at once made me think about a passage I read yesterday:
'the fact that I never expected to hear from the Whispering Willow again, but they sent me an email as soon as I got home, saying both pies were “fantastic” and they wanted more pronto, time is money, the fact that that’s how Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,” the fact that Mommy never knew what to say when they said that, the fact that she struggled with Italian during that year in Rome, poor duck, the fact that once she memorized a whole spiel and managed to get it all out, over the phone, and the person at the other end answered with an equally long long spiel, and she was sunk'. 🙂
I can imagine that. I felt I missed the narrator, like a kind of deprivation, when I finished reading it. Besides, I love animals and that business of the lioness being hunted by all those crazee armed men and the lost dog made me really distraught!!
Oh my my, you have floored me with this one, Jola!! :)
And with your illustrations! I couldn't see them in the summer since I must have been on the app when I visited your review, but now that I did, I find them so inspired!