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Old 10-03-08, 10:33 AM
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Halfway through (and loving it):


It really isn't about trashing Britney. It's about a mother that understands life isn't forever and wanted to write about what she learned in life to leave it behind to her children. I am really loving it.

My first Hard Case Crime monthly book (I have 6 others I bought separately that I haven't started):


I am 20 pages in and REALLY liking it. I am so hooked it's not even funny.

Starting the Left Behind Series with book one of the prequel:


About five pages in, liking it so far.
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Finished last night. . .



Now starting (a lost genre today's literature) . . .

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I'm almost finished with both of these:


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Still reading.


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Old 10-06-08, 12:53 AM
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Just finished


Started this one
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I just finished these two books:



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Just finished, The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time.

Now I'm reading Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain.
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Old 10-08-08, 12:47 PM
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For easy, fun fiction i just started reading Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, and for the heavier stuff...



-love this blurb from the website...
"This is the worst idea for a book I've ever heard - it makes me want to vomit. The idea encapsulates the very worst part of Western thought. It makes a purely Socratic distinction about something that isn't intellectualizable." [One week later:] "I take it back - I'm sorry! This is great!"
— Joni Mitchell

and because i've come to detest my job i'm finally getting around to reading this...

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Still reading.


Excellent book. As are most by this author. Summer of Night was one of the best horror books I have ever read.
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Gene Wolfe's collection "Starwater Strains".
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Last finished: Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma

Now: Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah

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I am going to try to read George Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984.
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I am going to try to read George Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984.
You can't go wrong with either of those choices.
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I bought a 1946 edition a few months ago. Unfortunately, the publisher chopped up the illustrations. Idiots.
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Just started:



Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization by Iain Gately
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Almost done with Gomorrah but decided to start this one as well:

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