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chained_bear I would read The Danger Tree again. After I get through the bookcase-sized stack of stuff I'm sposta read first. Mar 20, 2009
reesetee It's one of the few books I've read twice. Mar 20, 2009
chained_bear I finished it last night. Very nice! I don't read a lot of fiction (as I probably mentioned on this site ad nauseam), but this one was worth the time. Mar 20, 2009
reesetee Ah, you're reading The Bird Artist! Let me know what you think of it. :-) Mar 20, 2009
chained_bear "... the ice-fishing shanties lined up off-season at the end of the sawmill road, cold storage shacks dug into hillsides, the seine gallows, trestles made of rough rails we called 'starrigans,' used for drying newly barked nets."
—Howard Norman, The Bird Artist (New York: Picador USA, 1994), 22 Mar 19, 2009