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Post by elanor on Apr 21, 2012 14:25:24 GMT -5
anti-book recommendation? Very good idea but will be quarrels, probably  |
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Post by solitude on Apr 21, 2012 16:35:19 GMT -5
Thanks elanor. I'm not sure that I want to admit that I read it. It is part of a trilogy and I will not be reading #2 or #3! Blech Is it Fifty Shades of Grey? My friend told me it was sensual, which I am all for, but then I read several reviews calling it a trashy Harlequin romance.....NO thanks!!  |
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Post by elanor on Apr 22, 2012 13:14:53 GMT -5
very interesting quotes  |
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Post by solitude on May 10, 2012 6:12:51 GMT -5
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything It gives me hope for my scattered brain. |
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Post by frauleinkül on Jun 24, 2014 3:06:32 GMT -5
Currently reading Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". It's fucking mad. In all the best ways possible
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Post by Lucy on Jul 2, 2014 8:58:44 GMT -5
No Bells on Sunday interests me suddenly. Has anyone read it?
Been reading A.M. Homes this week.
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Post by silence on Jul 2, 2014 10:14:27 GMT -5
Yup. Very, very depressing - it's mostly the journals of Rachel Roberts, interspersed with interviews with friends. It's a fascinating read, but an ugly one with no happy ending.
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Post by Lucy on Jul 2, 2014 10:46:20 GMT -5
Thanks Silence.
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Post by solitude on Jul 6, 2014 19:22:39 GMT -5
I am into disturbed memoirs this year. Just reread The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.....so moving.
Now absorbed with Lit by Mary Karr. Next in line- One More Theory About Happiness by Paul Guest..
Also can't get enough of John Green. His brother got me through Enviro and Earth Science for difficult students. I love them both.
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Post by Lucy on Jul 7, 2014 8:02:18 GMT -5
A.M. Homes wrote a disturbing memoir which I haven't read yet. Her fiction is dark enough.
Apparently she is the product of an extramarital affair in the early 1960's when that was still shocking. She wrote about that and other family and personal secrets. After I recover from reading her fiction, I might read her memoir. It makes me feel better when I read other families are complicated and imperfect. Is that weird?
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Post by solitude on Jul 29, 2014 13:08:35 GMT -5
Not at all weird....it's the perfect coping mechanism!  |
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Post by solitude on Aug 7, 2014 8:59:16 GMT -5
I like to read YA novels in the summer because they are typically lighter and then I can recommend the best of the lot to my students or use them in my English classes. This summer I picked up Eleanor and Park based on John Green's review of it. It is set in 1986 so the music references are so much fun and have been making me rather reflective. I was going to read it over a few lazy days on our pool float, but I ended up reading the entire book in one setting, like a ravenous beast.  Now onto Machaelle Small Wright, who my friend claims will change my life forever.....hmmm..... |
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Post by silence on Mar 1, 2015 6:33:45 GMT -5
Richard Hugo's What Thou Lovest Well Remains American (apropos of nothing)
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