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Mon May-28-07 08:34 PM
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With apologies to Sannum--hope it wasn't a library book you lost. :P
I've got a stack lined up, but right now I'm reading "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon. So far, just as engrossing as "Kavalier and Clay".
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Mon May-28-07 08:35 PM
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1. God is not Great, when i'm finished with that i have Assault on reason. |
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Mon May-28-07 08:36 PM
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4. Ooh--Assault on Reason |
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Have to remember to pick that up.
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Mon May-28-07 08:36 PM
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2. If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule. |
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Mon May-28-07 08:36 PM
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3. the new Edith Wharton biography |
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Mon May-28-07 08:40 PM
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5. The Time Traveler's Wife |
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Mon May-28-07 10:06 PM
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26. Hang on, it'll make you cry... |
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Mon May-28-07 08:40 PM
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6. "The Audacity of Hope" |
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I just started it. I finally finished State of Denial which took me all winter and spring to read. :boring:
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Mon May-28-07 08:43 PM
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7. re-reading several things |
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The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy), Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty erotica trilogy, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
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Mon May-28-07 08:53 PM
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Excellent book. Crappy movie. :hi:
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Mon May-28-07 09:18 PM
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Cannot STAND the movie, but Conroy's written imagery is just intoxicating.
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Thu May-31-07 07:11 PM
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51. oh i love "prince of tides" the book!!! enjoy i envy you this one EOM |
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Edited on Thu May-31-07 07:14 PM by pitohui
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Mon May-28-07 08:49 PM
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8. Hey! I just heard the book ladies on NPR talking about |
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"The Yiddish Policeman's Union" being one of their top recommendations for a Summer Read...
Anyway...I'm reading "Angry Saints" by George Knight. When I finish that (this evening) it's on to "Assault on Reason" by that ex-Vice-President guy...
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Mon May-28-07 08:51 PM
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He's done an amazing job recreating Sitka, Alaska as the place where the world's Jews went to instead of Israel.
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Mon May-28-07 08:59 PM
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12. Isn't it based on an actual plan floated by Harold Ickes? |
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Or is that just part of the "what if" of the story?
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Mon May-28-07 09:29 PM
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16. Never heard that, but |
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guess I'll have to check that out.
There actually hasn't been any real discussion of the events that led to Jews relocating to Sitka, but I'm only 1/8th of the way into it.
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Mon May-28-07 08:54 PM
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National Geographics. Excellent magazine.
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Mon May-28-07 09:20 PM
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14. I have been re-reading Tom Brown Jr's: Wilderness Survival |
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and Henry David Thoreau's "On Civil Disobedience"
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Mon May-28-07 09:22 PM
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Mon May-28-07 09:43 PM
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Mon May-28-07 09:47 PM
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18. his The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen, is cool too... |
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Mon May-28-07 11:19 PM
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29. Yes, I'd like to read more of his books, I like his style |
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Plus, I read his blog every other day or so, so, why not? :D
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Mon May-28-07 11:38 PM
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33. hubby bought it for daughter #1, she must have every cookbook known to paper & ink... |
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she's the cook in her family Big Time!! we sort of speed read it, but she says it's cool :headbang:
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Mon May-28-07 09:48 PM
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fascinating too! ;)
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Mon May-28-07 09:51 PM
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21. so...it's a dime novel you're saying... |
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Mon May-28-07 10:01 PM
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24. oh no, it's much more than that! |
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Mon May-28-07 09:50 PM
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20. Carol Higgins Clark - Popped...just finished: James Patterson - The 6th Target... |
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Mon May-28-07 09:53 PM
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Mon May-28-07 09:56 PM
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23. Wicked by Gregory Maguire |
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Trying it on, anyway. Not very far into it, and if I don't get hooked soon I will be abandoning it.
I recently finished a very good novel called 'The Thirteenth Tale'. I highly recommend it.
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Mon May-28-07 10:03 PM
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"Simple Genius". Will continue with "God is not Great" when i'm finished.
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Mon May-28-07 10:09 PM
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27. Assault on Reason, then I'm going to move on to Failed States by Chomsky. |
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Mon May-28-07 10:15 PM
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28. "Death Masks," book five of the Dresden Files series. |
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I love love love these books! Better than the tv show, obviously.
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Mon May-28-07 11:21 PM
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Mon May-28-07 11:29 PM
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31. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive |
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I'm half-way through. The characters do not seem like themselves.
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Mon May-28-07 11:30 PM
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32. still finishing Chapterhouse Dune |
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So I can start on House Atreides
woot!
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Mon May-28-07 11:40 PM
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Mon May-28-07 11:43 PM
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35. I'm reading Six Wives by David Starkey. |
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Mon May-28-07 11:46 PM
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36. "Ragtime," E. L. Doctorow. nt |
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Mon May-28-07 11:51 PM
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And I just picked up the Assault on Reason audiobook.
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Mon May-28-07 11:59 PM
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38. "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts .... |
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it has me enthralled. A gripping saga and page-turner for me. He has brought Bombay to life and I am having a good time traveling there as his story unfolds.
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Tue May-29-07 12:16 AM
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39. A Confederacy of Dunces |
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and Murder Gets a Life (a "Southern Sisters" mystery).
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Tue May-29-07 12:30 AM
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40. The Assault on Reason |
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Tue May-29-07 06:12 AM
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I'm also reading "The Yiddish Policeman's Union". As you said, engrossing.
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Tue May-29-07 06:23 AM
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42. Catch 22, Red Badge of Courage and other stories (Stephen Crane anthology) |
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some harlequin romance novels for brainstorming research on writing a horror story...
just catching up on some stuff i missed from my youth and working on research for personal creations for the future.
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Tue May-29-07 06:28 AM
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43. Last Exit To Brooklyn |
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By Hubert Selby Jr. Definitely one of the grittiest and darkest novels (a collection of connected short stories really) that I've read in quite some time. Next up is The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins which I bought yesterday.
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Tue May-29-07 10:11 AM
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44. Just finished "The Good Guy" by Dean Koontz. |
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Not a big fan of his, but it caught my interest. Now I'm trying to figure out what to read next.
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Tue May-29-07 10:13 AM
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Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. An old favorite, read it the first time when I was about 8 or 9 years old.
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Tue May-29-07 10:14 AM
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46. John Irving - Widow for a Year |
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I guess the movie "The Door in the Floor" was based in it. (I never saw that movie.)
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Thu May-31-07 06:59 PM
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47. It's called Ancient Egypt |
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David P. Silverman is the general editor. Very good so far - the maps took a while to get used to, but I guess they fit the theme.
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Thu May-31-07 07:02 PM
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'The Assault on Reason' by Al (Please run for President, Al!) Gore.
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Thu May-31-07 07:10 PM
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49. Landmark-Based Speech Recognition: Report of the 2004 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop |
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2004, what can I say, a little behind on my reading
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Thu May-31-07 07:10 PM
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I guess it depends on what the meanings of "are" are.
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Thu May-31-07 07:13 PM
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52. i just finished "lunar park" by bret easton ellis |
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Edited on Thu May-31-07 07:15 PM by pitohui
this one is more stephen king than marquis de sade, okay, i admit it, i cried, i expected a little more social satire and not so much...stephen king...but it's a good read
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