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#976

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Posted: 2/2/07 at 11:50pm

Just finished Little Children and was quite dissapointed by the ending, but over all, i enjoyed it.

I'm moving on to Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead. i'm SO excited.

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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

#977

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Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:05am

The Hours. I have about 70 pages left, and I am loving every word of it.

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How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...

#978

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Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:47pm

Re-reading My Sister's Keeper, one of my favorite books. It's seriously heart-wrenching.

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"It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things."

#979

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Posted: 2/3/07 at 5:12pm

just picked up "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" - it is great. (it's a novel, not a textbook)

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"The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." - Arthur Miller

#980

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Posted: 2/8/07 at 10:50pm

I just finished Gemma by Meg Tilly and am not sure when the nightmares will stop. Prob ablt the most horrifying book I have ever read.

Almost donem with Family Tree by Barbara Delinksy. I like it but hope it isn't as predictable as I think it will be.

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Sunchips: Best Kept Secret in the chip aisle!!

#981

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Posted: 2/8/07 at 10:55pm

Oooh, ThankstoPhantom, Michael Cunningham is one of my all-time favourite authors. Have you read anything else by him?

I just started Dragonfly in Amber, by Diana Gabaldon. It's the one that comes after Outlander, which I stayed up way too late reading every night!

#982

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Posted: 2/8/07 at 11:00pm

Allie--My wife ownes the whole Outlander series and reads them over and over. She LOVES them

I think I am going to pick up The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Has anyone read that? Is it any good?

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

#983

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Posted: 2/8/07 at 11:02pm

I always make fun of my mom for refusing to read certain books on the basis that they're hardcover, and therefore too difficult to read in bed, but I have to say... the copy I had of Outlander was GIGANTIC. I'm surprised I didn't sprain a wrist holding it up. But it was so good. Lots of fighting and running. And sex. Good stuff.

#984

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Posted: 2/9/07 at 12:01am

ThankstoPhantom- i tried The Hours, i really did. But i just couldn't get through it. maybe in ten years or so

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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

#985

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Posted: 2/9/07 at 12:29am

I'm reading Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts...The first book of the circle trilogy.

#986

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Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:50am

Up in Lost, it wasn't so much the BD/SM as the idea that Beauty was essentially raped to be awakened that bothered me.

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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

#987

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Posted: 2/9/07 at 11:55am

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

#988

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Posted: 3/2/07 at 11:53pm

Breathe, Eyes, Memory- Edwidge Dandicat.

#989

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Posted: 3/3/07 at 12:09am

Lolita

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#990

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Posted: 3/3/07 at 12:34am

Through the Childrens Gate

Adam Gopnik is my hero!

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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

#991

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Posted: 3/3/07 at 9:18am

Bridge to Terabithia

It was my favorite book as a kid and I've been wanting to read it again since the movie came out. It's the same beat up copy I read as a kid, with the yellowed pages and my kid-writing signature on the inside cover.

#992

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Posted: 3/3/07 at 9:26am

I am almost finished with The Death and Life of Superman

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

#993

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Posted: 3/3/07 at 2:17pm

Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

#994

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Posted: 3/3/07 at 9:29pm

I finished Tuesdays with Morrie yesterday and am now reading Marley & me

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BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless

SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!

#995

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Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:45am

I finished Pynchon's AGAINST THE DAY, and read Edward St. Aubyn's MOTHER'S MILK. Nest up: I don't know. Reading the Pynchon took a lot out of me, my attention span has really dwindled. I might need something light and quick. Maybe one of the Ian Rankin mysteries I picked up last year. Anybody read Rankin?

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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

#996

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Posted: 3/4/07 at 12:21pm

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I'm halfway through it, & I'm totally loving it.

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"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
-Gilda Radner

#997

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Posted: 3/20/07 at 2:00pm

While on vacation, I finished Gilead, as beautiful a book as I have ever read. Thanks to touchmeinthemorning for the gentle nudge to stick with it.

I am in the midst of two books now: Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett, a witty and engaging memoir, and Marcus Borg's The Heart of Christianity, which I am reading for a Lenten study at church. I dig me some Marcus Borg.

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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

#998

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Posted: 3/20/07 at 2:02pm

I am reading the Pendragon series. I am on the second book right now.

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

#999

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Posted: 3/20/07 at 2:14pm

I'm reading American Psycho.

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"A girl like me lands on her feet."

#1000

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Posted: 3/20/07 at 2:18pm

Just finished White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult are up next.