#sentenceoftheday #RichardRusso #booksky #BridgeofSighs "The middle, she said, was the real America, the America that mattered, the America that we were worth fighting wars to defend."

#sentenceoftheday #RichardRusso #booksky #BridgeofSighs "The middle, she said, was the real America, the America that mattered, the America that we were worth fighting wars to defend."
Another #sentenceoftheday #RichardRusso #BridgeofSighs #booksky #Venice #amreading "I'm starting with the squid ink risotto, and you should, too," Hugh announced once they were settled.
Reading #RichardRusso is making me want to write more. That's really a shock because, well, we have nothing in common π #amreading #booksky #BridgeofSighs
#sentenceoftheday #RichardRusso #booksky "My mother had, more than once in my young life, suggested that she knew me better than I knew myself, so I supposed it was possible." I picked up this book because I thought it was set in Venice but it isn't. It's about WANTING to go to Venice, lol
Settling down for my first Richard Russo novel: Bridge of Sighs. I'm surprised I can relate to any of the characters -- MC is white, male, married but childless, and lives in a small town -- but amazingly I can? #RichardRusso #booksky #amreading #novel
#sentenceoftheday #amreading #BridgeofSighs #RichardRusso #booksky "You don't identify with people worse off than you are."
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