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#776

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Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:15am

I just bought Fannie Flagg's new book, CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN. I think I will read it offstage during Laundry and Bourbon/Lone Star. Playing Cletis, I have a LOT of time offstage!

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"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#777

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Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:31am

Ya Yas in Bloom - Rebecca Wells. Third in the series, not as good as the other two but still an enjoyable read.

If you haven't read The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, you're missing out, big time!

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Life is...just a bowl of cherries...

Updated On: 7/23/06 at 09:31 AM

#778

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 1:03am

Just finished Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home...absolutely beautiful book.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

#779

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 9:09am

I finally finished When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman, which was really good, just not exactly light reading.

Moving on to Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore. I loved Lamb and Fluke so I have high hopes.

Updated On: 7/27/06 at 09:09 AM

#780

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 9:36am

FOR SPACIOUS SKIES by astronaut Scott Carpenter. It's very well written.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#781

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:14am

I'm reading Anthem by Ayn Rand. Gah, Fountainhead is so much better! If you're going to be repetitive, at least make it enjoyably so.

#782

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:06am

I think Fountainhead is the only "readable" novel Ayn Rand every wrote...

Anyway, I finished Leonardo's Swans over the weekend, so then I started The Kite Runner on Monday, and finished it this morning. Great book.

Updated On: 7/27/06 at 11:06 AM

#783

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:10am

I JUST finished reading a book by Tess Gerritsen called "The Surgeon", about a psycho who ties women up and cuts out their uterus while they're still alive.

Festive!

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Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you. Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.

#784

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:45am

The End of Iraq, by former US Ambassador to Croatia Peter W. Galbraith.

He says that the failed American policy in Iraq has caused the country to disintegrate into 3 distinct political entities: Kurdistan in the north, a Shiite pro-Iranian south and a Sunni-dominated chaotic center, with no infrastructure and no national institutions.

We have, in essence, created a Civil War there, with the possibilities of military intervention by the Iranians or by the Turks, who will not allow a free Kurdistan.

Galbraith argues that the United States will be left with an open-ended commitment to uncontrollable turmoil.
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

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#785

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:49am

Duchess Of Aquitaine: A Novel of Eleanor
by Margaret Ball

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"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

#786

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:50am

I love Anthem! But then, I'm a sucker for a good dystopian story.

#787

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:55am

Yeah, but George Orwell did it so much better in 1984.

I haven't read Atlas Shrugged, so I can't comment as to whether or not Fountainhead is Ayn Rand's only readable work, but it seems as such right now. Anthem is so short...it should take me 45 minutes to read. But I just keep reading like five pages and then putting it down because it doesn't hold my attention. Which is strange. Normally I have no problem sitting and reading for hours on end.

Updated On: 7/27/06 at 11:55 AM

#788

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 12:02pm

Just finished reading The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper. On the dust cover, it says that it will be turned into a movie, I cant wait!

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"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D

#789

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 4:26pm

I'm reading Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer for college. Though I can see why some people would like it, it is BORING ME TO TEARS.

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"That's what writers do. We cut ourselves open and just bleed all over the page."

#790

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 5:10pm

Jewish Literacy by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. It is a history of Jews throughout the ages and their literary accomplishments and how it affects our everyday lives.

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"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

#791

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:10pm

A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss. It's a murder mystery set in eighteenth-century England, and more interesting than the title may suggest.

#792

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Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:32pm

Just finished up The Alchemist, which was an inspiring book. I loved every page of it.

I think I'm gonna pick up The Devil Wears Prada now, it sounds interesting.

#793

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Posted: 7/28/06 at 7:22am

ANGELA'S ASHES by Frank McCourt. Has there ever been a more depressing book? It's filled with fathers who drink away their paychecks, mothers having babies who seem to die shortly after they're born.

Sad. Terribly sad.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#794

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Posted: 7/28/06 at 8:00am

THE DARK HALF--Stephen King.

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"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

#795

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Posted: 7/28/06 at 10:39pm

Everything Is Illuminated By Jonathan Safran Foer....It's amazing! So out there but yet hilarious and smart and just great writing. Had to share. Haven't seen the movie but am loving every second of the book!

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RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~

#796

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 5:32pm

I just finished The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards and am now on to Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs.

#797

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 5:56pm

Those are both on my To Read list, yodamarie (I think Running with Scissors will be up next though).

I just finished The Devil Wears Prada, because I picked up used copy for a buck and I wanted to commiserate with someone else dealing with the hellish task of getting that first out-of-college job in NYC. Ugh! What a horrible book! I just wanted to smack that little wench, Andrea Sachs/Lauren Weisberger. With all the complaining about Miranda in the damn thing, little Miss Prissy Pants, was the real bitch in that book, imho!

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But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)

#798

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 6:46pm

The Professor and the Madman- about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

it's BRILLIANT. Best read i've had in months!

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#799

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 7:00pm

I'm reading RUNNING WITH SCISSORS.
It's funny, so far, but I'm only on page five.

#800

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 7:04pm

Just finished LAMB by Christopher Moore.

I laughed my ass off. That guy is so funny.

I'm starting on JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL by Susanna Clarke next, though so far I must admit it seems kind of boring.