tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25643029640904054312024-03-05T15:17:56.813-08:00BooksweptYurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-86888910359385877582016-05-19T10:42:00.000-07:002016-05-19T10:54:35.109-07:00An Overdue Visit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello! Is there anyone alive out there?<br />
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I kind of miss this cozy space. I remember sitting on the floor of my high school bedroom and sliding the patio door open all the way, the screen, too, so that I sat half-inside, half-outside. I remember stacking two memory boxes to fashion a desk and logging into Blogger, excited to add to this creaky site. I scoured Tumblr and Flickr for photos and paired them with quotes from my latest reads, and though at times I thought it was clever, more often I thought it was rather unoriginal, but I loved it anyway -- this post-reading ritual, this tidy exercise of closure -- so that insecurity, always ready with its insulting questions and comments, was readily silenced.<br />
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It has been five years since, and about two years since I moved from Blogger to <u><a href="http://bookswept.com/">Bookswept.com</a></u>. Regardless of platform, so much of the blogging landscape has changed. I suspect that its long form expression is no longer tolerated; we prefer brevity, captions not paragraphs, and we prefer a continuous stream of new, skimming not reading. I kind of miss the old, messy intimacy of blogging; less likes, hearts, followers and hashtags, but also less rigid and urgent because of it.<br />
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We now shape our content to cater to platforms designed and controlled by private corporations, i.e. Instagram, Twitter, etc. If we are to create, we seem to prefer to follow rules and guidelines, to select from finite options, and to display our content in the same way as everyone else.<br />
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Of course, there is much to appreciate. I love how effortless it now feels to create, sometimes just a few taps. I love that my community expands to include people and places that are absent from my normal day-to-day, offering a peek into lifestyles, priorities and aesthetics that are not my own.<br />
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I offer no conclusion, except that I will keep writing, and reading, so I hope you will keep writing, too.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Yuri
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Bookswept has finally moved into <u><a href="http://bookswept.com/">its own place</a></u>. So long, Blogger. Thank you to all of the readers. I feel like I started Bookswept so long ago but I’m just now getting started. I hope to see you at the new place. <u><a href="http://bookswept.com/">Welcome</a></u>!</div>
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Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-21818507824549272272014-02-19T16:31:00.002-08:002014-02-19T18:31:10.642-08:00i’m alive, again<center>
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I promise that this is the last of a short series (see the original <u><a href="http://bookswept.blogspot.com/2012/02/im-alive.html">i'm alive</a></u>). Bookswept is in the midst of growing into something a little bit better than what it is now. Thank you for being such a patient bunch.<br />
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<i>Into the Wild</i>, pg. 107<br />
By Jon Krakauer<br />
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"He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other people are not likely to go or had done something that others are not apt to do." </div>
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<i>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</i>, p. 21<br />
By Carson McCullers<br />
Published 1940<br />
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Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-86122666403420174182014-01-17T22:48:00.000-08:002014-01-17T22:49:20.983-08:00Beatrice and Virgil<div style="text-align: center;">
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"Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapability to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, its shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar - the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved."</div>
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<i>Beatrice and Virgil</i>, p. 23<br />
By Yann Martel<br />
Published 2010<br />
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Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-45654820589787343612013-12-26T16:42:00.000-08:002013-12-26T16:42:04.101-08:00The Age of Miracles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction." </div>
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<i>The Age of Miracles</i>, p. 83<br />
By Karen Thompson Walker<br />
Published 2012<br />
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Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-1311666426777394522013-12-04T16:21:00.000-08:002013-12-04T16:21:54.836-08:00Looking for Alaska<div style="text-align: center;">
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"I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their homes with her, and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere. I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe 'the afterlife' is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled."
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Published 2005<br />
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Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-52666717619358743112013-11-15T16:38:00.000-08:002013-12-04T16:22:23.762-08:00Sisterland<div style="text-align: center;">
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"On average, an earthquake of magnitude 6 or greater happens somewhere in the world every three days. Mostly, they happen underwater, and we hardly take notice. It is only when the earthquake comes to us, upending the streets and houses and trees we think of as ours, that they command our attention. But the earth...is always busy."</div>
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<i>Sisterland</i>, pp. 389-90<br />
By Curtis Sittenfeld<br />
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Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-287853095068641142013-07-17T21:34:00.000-07:002013-07-17T21:34:55.678-07:00The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"We laughed, and I decided that we were the two most sophisticated people drinking <i>lattes</i> at a little round table on the pedestrian mall in all of Epiphany and possibly France."</div>
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<i>The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place</i>, p. 214<br />
By E.L. Konigsburg<br />
Published 2004Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-44131620126773030962013-06-11T20:13:00.000-07:002013-06-11T20:14:01.777-07:00Girl, Interrupted <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"It was my misfortune - or salvation - to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality... This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled."<br />
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Published 1993</div>
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"I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up. All that stuff." </div>
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<i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</i>, p. 44
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Published 1962</div>
Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-73998227128165213232013-03-24T08:23:00.000-07:002013-04-19T13:59:16.267-07:00J.D. Salinger: A Life<div style="text-align: center;">
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"When Salinger lived in Connecticut, unabashed Americanism and materialism were unquestioned values. His neighbors pursued those values religiously and weighed one another against a standard of conformity that often suffocated individuality. Salinger found such material irresistible. Having long exposed the phoniness of society, he now found himself living in a culture that not only esteemed this quality he so despised but also sought to infect all of its members with it."</div>
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Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-9645224368818678632013-02-21T22:44:00.000-08:002013-04-19T13:59:48.918-07:00The View from Saturday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"I am a passenger on Spaceship Earth." </div>
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<i>The View from Saturday,</i> p. 73<br />
By E. L. Konigsburg<br />
Published 1996Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-14986180372310273442012-12-05T08:09:00.000-08:002013-04-19T14:01:36.723-07:00The Long Goodbye: A Memoir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"I was a child of atheists, but I had an intuition of God. The days seemed created for our worship. There was grass and flowers and clouds. And then there were the words for these things: mare's tails and a mackerel sky, daylillies and lady's slippers and lilicas and hyacinth. There were words even for the weeds: goldenrod and ragweed and Queen Anne's lace. You could feed yourself on the grandeur of the sounds."</div>
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<i>The Long Goodbye: A Memoir,</i> p. 2</div>
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By Meghan O'Rourke </div>
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Published 2012</div>
Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-75099132327912021672012-11-30T20:36:00.000-08:002012-12-07T12:09:38.406-08:00The Abstinence Teacher<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"I'm halfway through my life, and as far as I can tell, the real lesson of the past isn't that I made some mistakes, it's that I didn't make nearly enough of them." </div>
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<i>The Abstinence Teacher</i>, p. 264<br />
By Tom Perrotta<br />
Published 2007
Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-18160427881124284312012-07-14T21:54:00.000-07:002012-07-14T21:58:11.904-07:00How to Buy a Love of Reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"'He's self-invented. Thinks he's self-contained. Drinks to ignore his seepage. I feel truly sorry for him. He's very young to be so lonely.' </div>
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'<i>Lonely</i>? You know <i>nothing</i>. He's—' </div>
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'People who make fiction of themselves can't be otherwise.'" </div>
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<i>How to Buy a Love of Reading, </i>p. 124 </div>
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By Tanya Egan Gibson</div>
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Published 2006 </div>Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-25936667940092472842012-04-01T01:45:00.002-07:002012-04-01T02:24:39.332-07:00The Fault in Our Stars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_HX0jPAUqZ6PfKcrsHkz_H1CaJVMSfdb7MscYxkDlqys5m43tW3zdIwvg5Y160bBdC09vy40BPuueBHZYtkXX5eVyNRqmKAK-YqaVxOL9_cV-8QZleePEIDVzTbkqS8qg-l8bjPfhqp0/s640/IMG_3073.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed."</div><i><br />
The Fault in Our Stars</i>, p. 223 <br />
By John Green<br />
Published 2012Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-47651173599988754122012-02-24T01:00:00.004-08:002012-02-25T11:50:55.684-08:00Blue Nights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTceqBG0iszd2a2PIS1HhsFqk5leZ_dbOqFIWolUtuoffFh6qqQasijZVYlewTfNjmlMQwiBXNgDJRojo-AjyugbzSVNEkZTdOjFVm9SigQtlaEZnccWn76bz4P-xJ_-rCr6BTQELIDvY/s640/tumblr_llwwornZkj1qe1s6yo1_500.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhymdjV2XkOYvpRVHsfbvI9wJJ8Bik7QTg1Nlw5KjWM_tJXQ8_jjWFne2iKpd1soFWcbc1hAa8xyepfDDbwa5pjA3Okl_8IVROIl9vHtiCgW8Xfku43DCehryDp1wA8e5woQvhyphenhyphenJaDyzU/s640/IMG_7991.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember."</div><br />
<i>Blue Nights</i>, p. 66<br />
By Joan Didion <br />
Published 2011Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-18261176464099235812012-02-24T00:56:00.000-08:002014-02-19T09:46:06.172-08:00i'm alive<div style="text-align: center;">
My last post was practically three months ago. Three. That's pretty embarrassing. I'm going to try my best to dodge all glances and stares that indicate my abandonment. Thank you for lingering. </div>
Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-67052407905023387732011-12-07T21:26:00.000-08:002014-01-10T17:39:03.516-08:00The Marriage Plot<div style="text-align: center;">
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"In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable."</div>
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<i>The Marriage Plot</i>, p. 77<br />
By Jeffery Eugenides<br />
Published 2011Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-35710959445762434612011-11-08T21:44:00.000-08:002011-11-08T21:44:15.725-08:00A Visit from the Goon Squad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix1pcDlLLo4quJ04YVEllFGaP20ZRCzNDREmZehy6H84EJIjnGtluaNFDoyPJnNub-VtURETxr5CKAZ4A1dbb5DgV74B85jeqA9H8lgphbfcUxz2yBa30OClp8Hi_Brw-XSgvWGs_XtUc/s640/tumblr_lu2v4o5QZ11qep7vdo1_500_large.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRrk-j-I1g8PvVXCbKR5csdF9BT_O5pHkCfZHM3ss7OdKx8cSK79WSn2jofz7x9-rbwhx86UMcQ9oHCMg-Z8OSMba9I2dNvlij4uEH1N99NQXN_dtFuyZcf7OMjFCcFHbTxiHj0s4FzIY/s640/tumblr_lrixh3DS1o1qlv378o1_500.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"I was working for the city as a janitor in a neighborhood elementary school and, in summer, collecting litter in the park alongside the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge. I felt no shame whatsoever in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all."</div><br />
<i>A Visit from the Goon Squad</i>, p. 71<br />
By Jennifer Egan<br />
Published 2010Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-36597350724026463302011-11-07T20:46:00.000-08:002011-11-07T20:46:13.041-08:00Tuck Everlasting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxxvv5_QYHhaCcmPHfPc0Laqq8qfDlLmsDVMrJMh_Cd5XYK37AjehwJYicNg1-QL8OX-A32bTMva3-kpKTIvrC2E7aO5pgKL_WkztELWc9-VRf68rEI-BIG20tlzhk6_r-rYusAuW0i3w/s640/205b1cj.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist of only a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?"<i></i></div><br />
<i>Tuck Everlasting</i>, p. 7<br />
By Natalie Babbit<br />
Published 1975Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564302964090405431.post-77092618268293323912011-10-15T20:35:00.000-07:002011-11-11T19:52:03.685-08:00The Westing Game<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2564302964090405431&postID=7709261826829332391&from=pencil" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVnw7oyaAYtP3ChLokF9WXYPaPxP65-XHPfu4V9HMTKb1srvdR9XSJef8nL1RUaTDdH-vuOmNb7enIhVaJB__Ctin_w5RDK5VE7iTtvl4_MeZH5N_0shwd5Vi4U1zPDSEfxIWfZ64e08/s640/tumblr_lqb4itkIS61qeqcqvo1_500.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare."</div><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VFPRTQ/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0140386645&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0SB92RMFVXTQ6TM2CVQ9"><i>The Westing Game</i></a>, p. 51<br />
By Ellen Raskin<br />
Published 1978Yurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095321392758438187noreply@blogger.com2