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#101

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:39pm

The Human Stain by Philip Roth and Stella Adler on Checkov, Ibsen & Stridberg

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Mind is Mantra.

#102

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:40pm

The God of Small Things to be followed by The Corrections.

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#103

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:46pm

started to read The Corrections on my holiday and had to put it down. interested to know what you think of it. God of Small Things was my post 9/11 reading. Roy is GREAT.

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Mind is Mantra.

#104

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:17pm

I'm excited to read Corrections, but I've heard it's REALLY upsetting.

Roy is def. great- her language creates such a palpable world, walking a fine line between dreamlike and dark, seedy realism.

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#105

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Posted: 7/26/05 at 6:48pm

Just finished Fences, moving on to The Autumn of the Patriarch. At what point did Gabriel Garcia-Marquez stop believing in periods? I feel like I've been in the same sentence for 4 pages.

Updated On: 7/28/05 at 06:48 PM

#106

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Posted: 7/26/05 at 6:55pm

just finished harry potter 6, city of the pygmies by isabelle allende, and the rule of four. loved them all, esp HP, but who doesn't? The Rule of Four i think actually makes me want to read the hypnertomachia polphili (SP?). it was a great book, really quick read. i still liked da vinci code better, though.

currently reading the narrative life of frederick douglass for required summer reading, to be followed by the crucible (required) and baudalino by umberto eco.

i'm a book dork. i spend hours in used bookstores, and there's a bunch here in madison, where i'm on vacation, so it makes me. giddy. at times. heh.

#107

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Posted: 7/26/05 at 7:42pm

Caucasia by Danzy Senna and the Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans

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sometimes i think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams- the elephant man

#108

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Posted: 7/26/05 at 8:00pm

VELOCITY--By: Dean Koontz

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

#109

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Posted: 7/26/05 at 9:02pm

memoirs of a geisha. Great book.

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"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!

#110

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Posted: 7/26/05 at 9:03pm

still reading the Historian........

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#111

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Posted: 7/27/05 at 10:01am

I found The Historian bland and boring. It starts out interesting and then nose-dives.

#112

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Posted: 7/27/05 at 10:02am

Memoirs of a Geisha is spellbinding.

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#113

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Posted: 7/27/05 at 10:12am

Memoirs of a Geisha is a glorious read, indeed!

I just got Bill Maher's new book, New Rules. It's freakin' hilarious!

"New Rule: I don't care how fast your kid read the latest Harry Potter book. It doesn't make them gifted. This kid is gifted...

(insert picture of Mary Kay Letournau's lover)

...and the only thing he's ever read is a home pregnancy test."

#114

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Posted: 7/28/05 at 2:00am

The Pillowman
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Everything is Illuminated

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#115

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Posted: 7/28/05 at 2:45am

Finished Proof, Y: The Last Man- Unmanned, and Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days. Still working on The Autumn of the Patriarch. *pokes it*

#116

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Posted: 7/28/05 at 10:32am

Jane Eyre...I hate summer reading

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"If There's One Thing to Learn it's You Just Can't Go Wrong If You Follow Your Heart, and End With A Song"

#117

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Posted: 7/28/05 at 11:11am

I finally finished my Harry Potter reread. I'm now reading Lies My Teacher Told Me.

#118

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Posted: 7/28/05 at 1:48pm

I just finished TOO MUCH TUSCAN SUN: CONFESSIONS OF A CHIANTI TOUR GUIDE by Dario Castagno and have moved on to THE RELUCTANT SAINT: THE LIFE OF FRANICS OF ASSISI by Donald Spoto.

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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

#119

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Posted: 7/28/05 at 7:02pm

I recently finished "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman and I'm re-reading "Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike. I find the backstory to Hamlet very interesting.

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Thou giveth fever.

#120

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Posted: 7/28/05 at 8:20pm

Finished rereading Memoirs of a Geisha, which unfortunately got weaker the second time around. Trying to decide whether to slog on with The Autumn of the Patriarch or move on to Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Anyone have a recommendation?

#121

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Posted: 7/29/05 at 12:56am

I want to get my hands on a copy of "Closer".

Does anyone know of a really good biography on Maria Callas? She really interests me.

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Thou giveth fever.

#122

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Posted: 7/29/05 at 1:45am

Summer reading...This Boy's Life by Tobias Woolf.

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CCM '10!

#123

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 4:27pm

Finished The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Moving on to Two Trains Running.

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 04:27 PM

#124

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 5:43pm

Just finished Dean Koontz's Phantoms. I was afraid to go to bed.

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Thou giveth fever.

#125

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Posted: 8/1/05 at 11:50pm

I'm at the beginning of both [i]The Great Gatsby[/i] and [i]Prep[/i].