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eastham
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Funky, do you find yourself overeating when you read Edith Wharton? Her exquisite detail of a dinner table pushes me to the popcorn bowl everytime!!!
I'm just about finished with Blind Submissions and my next book is a biography of Ruth Brown Snyder, who is buried at the cemetery where I work. Executed at Sing Sing in the electric chair (Goggle her name and you will see her front page execution picture), Ruth was the inspiration to James Cain for his femme fatales in The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.
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| Jan 14, 2007 @ 7:56 PM |
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Raiynth
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Just started "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Weird stuff... but fun.
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| Jan 15, 2007 @ 9:02 AM |
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DoorWatcher
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Finally found a book I could get into: And Justice There is None, by Deborah Crombie. Half-way through it already, and I've got two more of hers. 
East: Found out I had seen The Murder Room (PD James) on PBS. I have two copies of you want one. 
Funky, The Age of Innocence was on tv the other day. I loved that book! (And the movie.)
Also rereading A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson along with Stephen Covey's book. I alternate... 
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| Jan 15, 2007 @ 8:19 PM |
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encorrgbl
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Nothing too heavy. "Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire."
I'll leave the Noam Chomsky books aside for a while 
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| Jan 15, 2007 @ 8:29 PM |
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BandTMom
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"Plum Lovin'"..New Evanovitch!! 
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| Jan 16, 2007 @ 6:39 PM |
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I'm still reading the Ruth Brown Snyder book. What a hoot, such purple prose from the 1930's.
I also started (simply cuz I didn't want to drag old Ruth around on the subway), Portugese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith. It's hilarious!
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| Jan 23, 2007 @ 11:10 AM |
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DoorWatcher
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All Shall Be Well - Deborah Crombie Almost through...
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| Jan 26, 2007 @ 5:24 AM |
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julia143
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Bill Bryson - A walk in the woods - third time I am reading his book.....he is soooo funny and a great travel guide. This one is all about the ATV trail.
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| Jan 26, 2007 @ 12:20 PM |
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mousetrap
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Just started Bag of Bones by Stephen King. It's one of those books I've had laying around the house for years so I figured why not read it? So far it's pretty good. On Chapter 6.
Just finished reading Catchfire by Terry Goodkind (I think that's the author's name) a week ago. It's part of a trilogy but I haven't had the time to go find the next installment, so it's just me and Mr. King for a while. Ha.
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| Jan 26, 2007 @ 8:00 PM |
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Martin666
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Julia--Brysons book is hillarious. :)
Went back and finished The Poet, Michael Connely, after putting it aside last month as boring. Actually wasn't bad.
FINALLY finished Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Finished The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, a christmas present from my daughter.
Finished re-reading Drums Along The Mohawk, by Walter Edmonds. A hugely underrated book, IMO.
Finished Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, by Robert Harrison, a wonderfully nerdy book about how mankind's perceptions of wilderness have changed from the Greeks up to the present.
Finished: The Brendan Voyage: Sailing To America in a Leather Boat To Prove The Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints, by Tim Severian. Ok, personally, I wouldn't have gone across the North Atlantic in that boat!
Reading: Nothing. I have to make a bookstore run into Ann Arbor this weekend. How exciting!
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| Jan 26, 2007 @ 8:21 PM |
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kattsmeow
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The Crimson Petal and The White. ( Michel Faber)
Dragon on A Pedestal. ( Piers Anthony)
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| Jan 27, 2007 @ 12:45 AM |
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redtigr
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Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg beat poetry: Scattered Poems
Pull my daisy
Tip my cup
Cut my thoughts
for coconuts
Jack my arden
Gate my shades
Silk my garden
Rose my days
And a wonderful book: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith,
one of the most quotable books I read in a long time:
"History, it seemed, could so quickly become a matter of mutual accusation and recrimintaion, an infinite regress of cruelty and oppression, unless forgetfulness or forgiveness intervened."
"...there is nothing easier to break than friendship, with all its expectations. One might ignore a friend, or let him down, but you could not do something deliberate to hurt him."
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| Jan 28, 2007 @ 10:37 AM |
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eastham
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Redtigr,
If you like Alexander McCall Smith give his Professor von Ingefeldt series awhirl. The first is Portugese Irregular Verbs. They are just confections!
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| Jan 28, 2007 @ 11:14 AM |
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redtigr
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eastham...
Thank you... I'll do that.. Love his characters..
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| Jan 29, 2007 @ 8:11 PM |
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redhairNfreckles
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Right now I'm reading Lone Wolf the story about Eric Rudolph's capture. Since he lived and was caught in my neck of the woods, I find this book very informative and interesting about his misguided life.
I finished the informative book and it was very interesting. It also was pretty cool that I know 3 of the law enforcement officers that were talked about in the book as they were conducting the search in Nantahala, a part of my county in NC.
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| Jan 30, 2007 @ 3:10 PM |
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DoorWatcher
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The Mission Song - John LeCarre
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| Jan 31, 2007 @ 12:08 AM |
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redtigr
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Doorwatcher:
Are you liking the Mission Song? Last couple of LeCarre books I've read have been kind of uneven
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| Jan 31, 2007 @ 12:18 AM |
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tatiana329
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All about Methane Hydrate and when they expect maybe find we can use it as a renewable energy source. why? because I only read NON fiction, everything else will come out as a movie sooner or later.
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| Feb 1, 2007 @ 10:16 PM |
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DoorWatcher
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Red: I just started The Mission Song. So far it has my interest but I've not read much yet. I'll let you know, ok? (I loved The Constant Gardener!)
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| Feb 5, 2007 @ 8:12 AM |
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Martin666
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Gack! Went a week with no book to read. Now: Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley and a wonderful thing called Rebellion In The Backlands, by Euclides da Cunha, the account of the Brazil governments attempts to eradicate the political movement begun by a religious mystic named Antonio Conselheiro in the 1890's.
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