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Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. I'm currenty alternating between that, Proust's "Swann's Way," and back issues of Lucky magazine (it's nice for a break b/c it's all ads & no articles :lol: )
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Currently: Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Things Fall Apart - Chinuba Achebe
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
Breakwater - Carla Neggers

Up next: god only knows
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I started it in 4th period Ap Environmental science today and should have it finished by tonight. so far so good i guess...definetly not as wonderful as everyone makes it out to be.
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I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me"
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I am currently reading Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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Tmritz, The Lovely Bones is in Mt TBR. I hope to read it soon.
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Post by gummoluv »

I'll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates, then I hope to read The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison, then A Void by Georges Perec (translated by Gilbert Adair) if it gets here in time.
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Fight Club - Book of the Month
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Currently reading Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear. I really like the irreverant tone of his books (which include the Thursday Next books - The Eyre Affair, etc. and the first of his nursery crime books). However, sometimes the plot is entirely too contrived and outrageous. These are great books to use when trying to teach freshman college students about the meaning of allusion!

Next up - Atonement by Ian McEwan.
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I have both The Fourth Bear and Atonement on Mount TBR too!
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Ulysses by James Joyce - been wanting to read this for an age but thought it prudent to educate myself with Homer's The Odyssey first then read The Odyssey retold by Simon Armitage (highly recommended). I have just got through the first part of Ulysses and taking a breather.
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald for some light relief and also a collection of T.S Elliot's poems (including Waste Land).
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Looking For Alaska by John Green and The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Just finished Atonement- Sleepy- How did you feel about the ending? I had mixed feelings.

And a guy at work handed me a book called You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again, which though entertaining, isn't really my cup of tea, but I'm going to finish it becuase he picked it up for me because I'm always reading during my downtime. It's about the wrongs done to beautiful women in Hollywood. Great idea, poorly written. Relies heavily on name dropping.
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LoveHatesYou wrote:Just finished Atonement- Sleepy- How did you feel about the ending? I had mixed feelings.
Haven't read it yet, it's on my To Be Read pile - but I'll check back with you when I've read it.
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Liz Jones's Diary... How One Single Girl Got Married by Liz Jones
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Ok that book succumbed to the "Rule of 50" (Liz Jones was such a bitch I couldn't keep reading!) so now I'm reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. I met him earlier this week at the talk he gave at the Brisbane Irish Club. Entertaining, funny, charming man.
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