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Always on my nightstand: Still Life With a Woodpecker The Hitchhiker's Guide Lord of the Flies James and the Giant Peach Welcome to the Monkey House (I am also a huge Vonnegut fan) also on my nightstand: Say You're One of them And Another Thing... Brave Story In my purse or stashed in my car: American Gods The Draining Lake Twilight Watch On my ipod: The Lightning Thief Dream Catcher: a Memoir
I should probably have some Howard Zinn in there as well...but a girl can only take so much, you know?
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I guess I'm like the usual book junkie I have several going: The Bible Faith & Courage - Joe Wheeler Every Patient Tells A Story - Lisa Sanders If You Want To Write - Brenda Ueland Chesnutt: Stories, Novels and Essays - A Library of America Book IBM & the Holocaust - Edwin Black The Passion of the Western Mind Enoch Arden - Tennyson A Reel Of Rainbow - F.W. Boreham
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Right now I'm reading:
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelen - that copy is at work and I read it on breaks. I've FINALLY got around to it.
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway - that copy is by my bed
and I'm also reading An Illustrated Guide to the American Economy as a supplement to the Wheelen book. That's also next to my bed.
I have 1776 but I haven't had time to read it. The reviews on the book were once good and now they seem to have turned really sour. Several reviewers on Amazon.com say the book jumps around a lot and isn't very well written. They also say it romanticizes Washington's role. I dunno - my copy has all the cool letters and stuff in it and I'm sure I'll get around to reading it one day.
I'm about a year late,(i'm just a newbie still) but in case you haven't read 1776 yet it is excellent. Of course I am a McCullough junkie but he is an excellent writer!
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I've been so occupied with school and sports lately that I haven't got much time to read anymore, such a shame - but I managed to finally finish Wuthering Heights and La Fille de Monsieur Linh by Philippe Claudel and as of yet I'm proceding into Beowulf, Ulysses and a Dutch novel whose title translates into Russian Blue. A great book by the way, by Rascha Peper.
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
This looks really good, where did you find this little gem? This may make for a good dicussion in the poetry thread. Please share your thoughts, I would be interested in hearing if you are enjoying the book.
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
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I'm currently in between books. I usually like to leave a day or two in between finishing a book and starting a new one to let the whole of the novel stew in my mind for a while before I start something new. It's fascinating the way the mind works, as even if I've just finished one book I often find myself still contemplating one I read before it.
At the moment I can't decide which book to start next. It seems to be a choice between a William Gibson novel and Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." Either that or I return to trying to tackle "Don Quixote" or "Les Miserables," but I have a feeling one of the science fiction books will win out as I've been on a sci-fi binge for quite some time now.
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
"Neverwhere" is an amazing book. I hope you love it as much as I did. And if you do, there is a not so terrible BBC mini-series that was made in the late 1990s that is interesting to watch, and it's understable even to someone who hasn't read the novel, if you wanted to watch it with friends or family.
I love Neil Gaiman and everything he touches, for the most part.
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I just finished "Best of the South, the Best of the Second Decade", a collection of short stories with Southern locations, written by Southern writers. I loved it so much that I had to get a copy of the first one that was published "Best of the South, from Ten Years of New Stories from the South". The first one is out of print, but I got a copy from one of Amazon's private sellers. These books have some of the best stories I have ever read. I have connections to the South, but I think anyone would appreciate the humanity and the beauty of these stories.
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it is excellent. Of course I am a McCullough junkie but he is an excellent writer!
