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Alice’s 2024 Year in Books
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Alice Sherman Simpson
Goodreads Author
Born
New York City, The United States
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Influences
Author: Richard Yates, Elizabeth Strout, Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Re
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January 2009
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https://www.goodreads.com/asimpson
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The Winthrop Agreement
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2023
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6 editions
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Ballroom
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2014
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5 editions
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SPEAKING OF BOOKS
May 10,2025
Alice Sherman Simpson, author and visual artist will be guest speaker at PEO: Philanthropic Educational Organization, at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont, CA.
The P.E.O. Sisterhood is a nonprofit organization that has helped more than 125,000* women pursue educational goals by providing more than $435 million in educational assistance, making a difference in women's lives through si Read more of this blog post »
Alice Sherman Simpson, author and visual artist will be guest speaker at PEO: Philanthropic Educational Organization, at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont, CA.
The P.E.O. Sisterhood is a nonprofit organization that has helped more than 125,000* women pursue educational goals by providing more than $435 million in educational assistance, making a difference in women's lives through si Read more of this blog post »
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"The best novel I've read that wrestles with the meaning of life was once The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. That honor now belongs to Of Human Bondage, written by Maugham thirty-nine years earlier. This voluminous, passionate epic of ideas and "
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"I love the main character in this book so much, I was sad to say a final goodbye to him after spending 700 perfect pages with him.
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"Has one of literature's great lines about reading:
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"This is a difficult book to review because it defies categorization. It is composed of 13 short stories about or involving the title character, Olive Kitteridge. It can also be called a novel because the stories flow, one into the next building a con"
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“For the company to assemble at a late hour and engage in unusual, exciting and severe exercise throughout the entire night, is often too great a tax upon the physical system. To dress too thinly, and in a state of perspiration to be exposed, as ladies at the ball frequently are, to draughts of cold, is oftentimes to plant the seeds of a disease from which they never recover. Again, to come in contact, as ladies are liable to, more especially at the public ball, with disreputable men, is sometimes to form alliances that will make a lifetime of sorrow.' —Thomas E. Hill, Evils of the Ball, 1883”
― Ballroom
― Ballroom
“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE:
"Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least for more fibrous forms of art. One reason, surely, why readers throw down books when they don't contain sufficiently "likable" characters is that their tolerance for any sort of moral challenge - for being asked, say, to sympathize with homeless little boys who are godless and truculent and a bit smelling - has been eroded by too many fairy tales masquerading as adult literature."~ wrote Zoe Heller for Bookends in the Sunday's NY Times Book Review interview”
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"Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least for more fibrous forms of art. One reason, surely, why readers throw down books when they don't contain sufficiently "likable" characters is that their tolerance for any sort of moral challenge - for being asked, say, to sympathize with homeless little boys who are godless and truculent and a bit smelling - has been eroded by too many fairy tales masquerading as adult literature."~ wrote Zoe Heller for Bookends in the Sunday's NY Times Book Review interview”
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“She can’t explain or quite understand what it is that is special about dancing with Harry. When he opens his arms to her, he is so sure, the way he holds her, not too hard, not too soft. Like coming home. Where she belongs. The way he moves her. They are a part of the music. Their bodies fit together, move like one person. Perfect. The way a man and a woman must feel, she thinks, when they are in love. He makes her feel beautiful, too, like when he assures her that someday she will be good enough to be a professional dancer. Harry must know, because he is the best dancer, the best teacher, a girl could have, patient and gentle. She is lucky that he believes in her. That is how she feels outside his door.”
― Ballroom
― Ballroom
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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
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“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
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Hello again, Alice! How have you been? Thank you for choosing me again. Have a great 2023--I hope it's gotten off to the right start. Blessings and peace. Best wishes from Majenta 💙💛🌻
Hello, Alice! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your book. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Happy October! Have a good day and a great month. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Alice wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "I read The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and loved it. Thanks for the recommendation. Hope all is well with you. Bonnie"Definitely not everyone's cup of tea,
Bonnie-
There's an excellent discussion going on at NYRB Classics about "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne."
Bonnie wrote: "I read The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and loved it. Thanks for the recommendation. Hope all is well with you. Bonnie"Definitely not everyone's cup of tea,
It's like a swamp here in Southern California. Might as well be in New York in July! That looks like a beloved pooch. Is it a Jack Russell? I have a fox terrier!
I read The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and loved it. Thanks for the recommendation. Hope all is well with you. Bonnie
C.J. Heck
Hello Alice,
It's such a pleasure having you for a friend here at Goodreads. I’m looking forward to reading “Ballroom”. Again, just let me know when it’s released and we’ll do a promotion for it on CJ’s Writer Thoughts!
Thank you so much and best wishes to you.
My warmest regards and respect,
CJ
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