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I am 50 pages from the end of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and really would not recommend it. I have no idea why this won the 2007 Pultizer... I read such better Fiction that year.



Then I move on to New Moon and the other 2 remaining Twilight books. It is a guilty pleasure now that Harry Potter has come to an end. They are simple reads and somewhat entertaining so no harm in not reading them.



I got half-way through Audacity of Hope, then he became President and for some reason I wasnt motivated to finish it because it all felt so passe!



On my Yet-To-Read bookshelf, next in line is Life of Pi and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Updated On: 8/2/09 at 12:22 PM

clevername: My best friend liked it too. As did the bookseller I nabbed it from at Strand. Can you tell me why you liked it? I am completely disinterested... Well, I am enjoying some parts of it (specifically the present-time narratives about Oscar in college and the older-womens stories of the past). And while I appreciate the brief-history of the DR, I didnt sign-up for it. I have read similar story lines before (aka Middlesex) that were far more engaging. I am grasping at straws for a succinct story-line, but I cant bite into anything. I dont really care about any of the characters nor the fuku. Makes me sad, because I wanted to like it.

Updated On: 8/2/09 at 02:22 PM

I realized I have 3 E. Lynn Harris books to read. I need to get the 1st two in the "trilogy" as I have the last one and the two in between the 2nd and 3rd.

Still reading "Tweaked". Still a bit out to lunch on it. Would really like to read Kurt Andersen's "Reset" next.

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EugLoven, "Life of Pi" is one of the best books I've ever read. It's unbelievably creative and captivating, and Martel is a hell of a storyteller.

I'm currently reading "It," in a half-assed effort to scare myself.

Just started Sarah Waters's THE LITTLE STRANGER and am loving it! It's like BRIDESHEAD REVISITED or ATONEMENT--only it's (apparently) a ghost story.

Did my post get eaten?

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

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Currently - The Devil Wears Prada (yes, I know, nothing intellectual, but I finally have some time to do some fun reading)

I might read the David Sedaris book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, next.

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It's called Certain Girls, I believe StockardFan. I read it after Good in Bed but didn't like it as much when it was told in Cannie's daughter's perspective. Still a fun read though.

I'm currently reading The Omnivore's DIlemma;

Yep, that's it Taylor! I just started it a little while ago. It seems good so far, but I'm only on chapter 4.

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I just started The Time Traveler's Wife..yes, I'm a little behind. And I'm ashamed because Audrey Niffenegger is a professor at my alma mater.

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

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In the past two weeks I have read:

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell - I like the overall message and theme the author puts out but it, in my opinion, got a little too repetative and boring. Plus, reading an entire chapter on plane crashes while on a plane...not usually a good thing, lol.

Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee - Why it has taken me this long to read the play I have no idea, but I greatly enjoyed it. Quick read but I found it very moving.

New Moon & Eclipse - I finally gave in, and well now have become obsessed. It was hard to get through New Moon at first but by mid book it had me hooked, and then Eclipse I just ate up. Not really fond of the writing style per say, and honestly, Bella annoys the crap outta me, but I have been taken by the overall world.

and now I'm onto The Time Traveler's Wife like a lot of you.

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