Winter comes early in this city. The first snow covers all the soot and debris that three other seasons left behind.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

I loved that book!!! :D

"He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."

from "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf

darlet 2 just finished that book. It was one of two required summer readings for honors english.

I love that book, like I said.

I borrowed The Virgin Suicides, also by Eugenides, from the library but never got around to reading it. I liked the movie, though.