Claire Richie

English and history double major, archaeology minor. I read a lot.

[Julia Olszewski @ojubes347]

Why does no one in this story find it creepy that Aureliano is teaching his child wife to read and write when she is not playing with dolls?

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

As much as I dislike the whole magical realism concept, the ending of this book never ceases to blow my mind.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

Lots of connections between Fernanda and time + its progression.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

These characters seems to catch love like a disease and it cripples them. Ex: Aureliano's asthma attack around Remedios.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

One Hundred Years of Solitude, more like One Hundred Years of Incest. #amiright?

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

I read this book in high school and did not enjoy it at all. Reading it again, I'm still not enjoying it.

[Andrew Soboeiro @soboeiro347]

Connection between this novel and "As You Like It?" Both about former aristocrats hoping to regain their status.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

@mcevans347 I totally agree. He perhaps was a little ashamed, but he didn't think himself a failure until others influenced him.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

"Mary says I share other people's troubles that don't exist." #ohdidyoumean #mylife

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

"Can a man think out his life or must he just tag along?" What a question. Do we have power over out own futures?

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

"I know in my bones and my tissue that will one say, soon or late, stop living and so I fight against sleep, and beseech it..."

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

"Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure."

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

"Read Moby Dick, dog. That's my advice to you." Sounds like me talking to my dog. #helistens

[Katherine Hjerpe @hjerpe347]

@ClaireR347 Steinbeck is perhaps my favorite author; he is simultaneously beautiful, tragic, hilarious, && moralistic — & somehow American.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

And I've found more humor in the first eight pages of this book than I did in the entirety of As I Lay Dying.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

@ClaireR347: I like the writing in this book. Very snappy dialogue without being too confusing. *cough* Hemmingway *cough*

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

♫ Music to Listen to As You Lay Dying Claire Richie http://t.co/phGasGFDV4 #NowPlaying

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

Ew, totally creeped out by that image of the nails being bored into Addie's face.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

Maybe it's because I don't like children, but I think Vardaman's chapters are the hardest for me to get through.

[Claire Richie @ClaireR347]

@hollielf347 Totally agree!