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#176

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 3:26pm

Moved on from Lies My Teacher Told Me just in time for my vacation. I'm almost done with The Time Traveler's Wife, not sure what's next.

Cheno, I was just in LA visiting my sister and while playing Loaded Questions I found out that most of my friends read fewer than 10 book in the last year. My ballpark guess was 75, my sister was 50, and none of the others cracked double digits.

#177

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 3:39pm

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most lyrically beautiful books ever written

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#178

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 4:24pm

yodamarie- I know, it's scary and sad!

If it's not on a 100 ft screen, they won't read it.

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#179

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 4:29pm

I just finished reading Winter Birds by Jim Grimsley... I was expecting something more like Dream Boy, but it was still a good book.

If it was ever made into a movie I'd like to play the photographer.

#180

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 8:45pm

The over-the-top melodrama of the Brontes and their ilk drives me up the wall sometimes, but they're still worth reading, for the history behind them at least.

My latest book for the commute is In the Skin of a Lion, by Michael Ondaatje.

#181

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 9:10pm

I'm totally sucked into Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance". People were talking about it incessantly this summer, so I thought that was a clue that I should pick it up. It's a fantastic, epic book, set in a part of the world that doesn't get to share nearly enough stories with the rest of us. Good times.
A Fine Balance on Amazon.com

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"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." -Oscar Wilde

#182

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 10:08pm

I just finished the ultra-hollow "Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon Hunting Soccer Mom."

It was fun if you are into the Buffy/Angel type stuff.

There are worse ways to kill a couple of hours.

#183

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 10:12pm

Crusaders Cross - James Lee Burke

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#184

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/19/05 at 10:32pm

In order of importance/interest

1. BWW.com :) of course!
2. Instructions on how to make/mix a caipirinha. Happy Friday, everyone
3. Dickens' Great Expectations

Just finished Kirkwood's 'Diary of a Mad Playwright'

#185

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/20/05 at 3:38pm

Love4-I read Glamorama when it first came out and hated it. I've read all of Ellis' books, and I found it to be his least focused (given the fact that he was doing about every drug known to man while writing it) and most boring.

I finished Lunar Park this morning. I greatly enjoyed it; Ellis is back in top form.

Up next:
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell
Shiksa Goddess or How I Spent My Forties by Wendy Wasserstein (finally getting around to finishing it...)

#186

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:55pm

OhmygodIfinishedCryptonomicon. I was going to start up on Stephenson's Baroque Cycle after this, but I'm not sure my brain can take it. So once I finish In the Skin of a Lion I'll probably move on to Middlesex, since so many people have recommended it.

#187

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:16pm

I am thinking I may begin rereading She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
Though, I am feeling the urge to go through Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier again, as well...

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"My friends have made the story of my life." -Helen Keller

#188

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:18pm

STILL reading the Historian......and do NOT want to lug it to Chicago...arrgh!

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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

#189

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:22pm

Heh. Reason number 54 why I chose to do my foreign study in London- the books will be in English. Not that I do a whole lot of leisure reading during the semester, but still. The pace at which I'm going through Pére Goriot proves it's probably for the best I stick to English as a general rule.

#190

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:32pm

Just finished Diary Of A Mad Playwright

Has anyone else read this book recently? As soon as I finished it, I started sobbing. I cried for a couple of minutes? I don't know why. Maybe it was because the sleeve of the book had Mr. Kirkwood's biography and it stated he died not long after the book came out. Wierd. I did enjoy it. Very funny and dishy.

Updated On: 8/21/05 at 10:32 PM

#191

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/22/05 at 3:08pm

"The Laments" by George Hagen --- great story about a rather quirky family! Dark humor and very well written....

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#192

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/22/05 at 3:10pm

i just finished reading the cap off of my snapple bottle. does that count?

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#193

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/22/05 at 3:42pm

Yes, those are so hard to get thru. I usually just SparkNote for those damned caps.

#194

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/22/05 at 3:44pm

Right now I'm reading RAGE, by Jonathan Kellerman. Next is the HISTORIAN, by Elizabeth somebody. Oh, I love Dracula.

#195

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:24pm

Finished The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book (betcha didn't know about that one), Middlesex, and The Light in the Piazza. I think I'm going to move on to another Kawabata- The Master of Go. Two weeks left to finish all my library books. :)

#196

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:27pm

The Master by Colm Toibin

#197

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:01pm

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde one of the most brilliant authors whose books can be loved by all from age 13 to 130

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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

#198

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:03pm

I'm currently about halfway through THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS by Anthony Trollope. Good fun, good story, great unpredictable characters.

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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/

#199

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:04pm

I'm reading THE HISTORIAN. It's rather slow, but good.

#200

Summer Reading

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:07pm

I just finished The Nanny Diaries. It was cute and kind of sad, but nothing spectacular. Right now I am reading way too many text books. College sucks sometimes.

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"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.