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#176

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I finished Michael Tolliver Lives today. While I enjoyed it, ultimately, I was unsatisfied. I won't tell you why, for those who will read it.

I still have two more days of vacation, and I have to find another book to read! I normally don't read this quickly.

"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

Updated On: 11/28/07 at 07:35 PM

#177

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Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistead Maupin
9/10 - Next To Normal, Ensemble Theatre
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
#178

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The third book begun on my vacation is The Year of Living Biblically. So far, it is hysterical. I won't be able to read it as quickly, however, as vacation is now over.

re: What are you currently reading?
"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
#179

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Are people reading less these days?!?

Yesterday, I started reading The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan. It is a companion to their The Last Week, which had a profound impact on my view of Holy Week and Easter. I hope this will do the same.
"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
#181

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov for the 3rd time...it just gets more more interesting each time I consume it.

"I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona, and you can't have a higher handicap than that." ~The ever-great and fabulous Morris K. Udall.
#182

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Re-reading The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, in addition to The Glass Menagerie for Lighting Design.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables

#183

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I'm reading Naked.
"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere
#184

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just finished THE GOD BOX - teen novel by alex sanchez. it was surprisingly good to me. as a gay christian, there was just so much i could identify with. i didn't even mind its didacticism.
RIP glebby <3
#185

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I hated the first two Rainbow Trilogy books. I wrote better than that in middle school.

Has his writing style improved since?
"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere
#186

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cturtle, Alex Sanchez recently did a book signing at my church, though I have not yet read The God Box.
"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
#187

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THE TERROR DREAM by Susan Faludi. To my thinking, the single most thought-provoking examination of the culture post 9/11 yet published. Riveting.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#188

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yes, i think SANCHEZ' writing HAS improved, though he's still no literary genius. i want to see him at a book signing!
RIP glebby <3
#189

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I'm finishing up a book of Patricia Highsmith crime short stories.Nothing exciting in the batch.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#190

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The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. " --Sueleen Gay
#191

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I'm listening to the audiobook of The Kite Runner. It's read by the author which adds a little something special to the experience, I think.

And I'm reading Bad Blood by Linda Fairstein for fun. It was an impulse purchase at the Duane Reade check out line. It's my 'soaking in the bathtub book" and I have no complaints so far.

Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
#193

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The String of Pearls: A Romance

After I saw the Sweeney Todd film last week I stopped in the bookstore to see if they carried the companion book. Looking it up led me to this new issue of the classic 1846 serial that Sweeney was based on. This reissue is edited by Robert Mack and includes an extensive history and detailed chronology of the story from its inception through the current film.

I was surprised to discover that the book is a good 300 pages of small print. I'd always assumed the original serial was a good deal smaller.

I'm a few chapters into it and find it very amusing. It's not quite the story we know. But it's fun to note its similarities as well as its differences.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#194

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I'm in between two books:

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
&
Playing for Pizza the new one by John Grisham

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!
#195

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The Whole World Over by Julia Glass. I'm probably going to start Away by Amy Bloom soon, as well.
"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
#197

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Just starting to read The Kite Runner. Loved the movie and can't wait to read the book.
#198

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Drown- The short story collection by Junot Diaz
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#199

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I rather liked the first two Rainbow trilogy books by Alex Sanchez. It reminded me of the vision I had in my head of what high school could've been, me with a friend like Nelson and a crush like Jason..... but of course that expectation was never lived up to. But I don't think of it in a bitter sense since I did grow up in southeasten Kentucky, so it's kind of farfetched being in the rusty buckle of the Bible Belt.


But anyway, at the moment I'm reading A Midsummer Night's Dream.....brushing up on Shakespeare before I audition for the role of Puck next month. Soon moving on to other Shakespeare comedies as I got the Complete Oxford Shakespeare : the Complete Works for Christmas.
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
#200

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As of right now, I am not reading anything. I am going to the library tomorrow if anyone has any suggestions. I like horror, suspense thrillers, and "coming of age" stories the most.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

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