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Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years

10 Music for Torching by A.M. Homes (1999) First Sentence: ”It is after midnight on one of those Friday nights when the guests have all gone home and the host and hostess are left in their drunkenness to try and put things right again.” As the only woman on the list, A. M. Homes deserves recognition for her amazing writing skills, her unique voice and her gloomy view of the world. Homes shines when writing about screwed-up, out-of-love or on the brink of out-of-love couples. Torching is no exception. The married couple, Paul and Elaine, first appeared in a short story in The Safety of Objects, and then took on a life of their own. Married in suburbia, with two young boys, we follow them in their search for happiness, or some form of contentment, which they never seem to find. Smoking crack in the dining room, having affairs, trying to burn down their own house…nothing seems to change their boredom and disappointment. They’re stuck. They’ve become strangers to each other, t...
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The 100 Most Meaningful Books of all Time

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Things fall apart Chinua Achebe Fairy tales and stories Hans Christian Andersen Pride and prejudice Jane Austen Old Goriot Honore de Balzac Trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, The Unnamable Samuel Beckett Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Collected fictions Jorge Luis Borges Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Outsider (The Stranger) Albert Camus Poems Paul Celan Journey to the end of the night Louis-Ferdinand Celine Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Nostromo Joseph Conrad The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Great expectations Charles Dickens Jacques the fatalist and his master Denis Diderot Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin Crime and punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Possessed Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Middlemarch George Eliot Invisible man Ralph Ellison Medea Euripides Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner The Sound and the ...
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15 Honest Questions The Person You Marry Should Be Able To Answer

1. Why do you love me? People seem to feel this is a question that doesn’t especially need answering. Most will say we love others simply because we love them — a horrible answer. All people need to know exactly why it is that they love the people they love. Loving someone is a very selfish act, and it’s okay. You love the person you love for what that person does for you and how he or she makes you feel. We may all have slightly different answers as to why we love someone, but if we aren’t able to exactly define the parameters of our love, then we’re likely to struggle later on once the initial intensity dies down. If your partner can’t answer why he or she loves you now, then imagine the inevitable uncertainty down the road. 2. Why do you want to spend the rest of your life with me?  “Because I love you” is not a good answer. Life is a journey — one that is best not traveled entirely alone. However, not everyone has the same destination in mind. Wanting to take d...
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21 Questions to Ask Your Spouse Instead of “How Was Your Day?”

1. Did you listen to anything interesting today? 2. If you could do any part of today over again, what would it be? 3. How much coffee did you drink today? 4. Will you remember any specific part of today a year from now? Five years? 5. Did you take any photos today? What did you photograph? 6. What app did you open most today? 7. How can I make your day easier in 5 minutes? 8. If we were leaving for vacation tonight, where do you wish we would be heading? 9. If you won $500 and had to spend it on yourself, what would you buy? 10. If your day was turned into a movie, who would you cast? 11.What did you say today that you could have never expected to come out of your mouth? 12. What did you do to take care of yourself today? 13. When did you feel appreciated today? 14. If you could guarantee one thing for tomorrow what would it be? 15. If we traded places tomorrow what advice would you give me for the day? 16. What made you laugh today? 17. Imagine committing the next year to learning o...
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