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Ian Rankin, the hanging garden
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Travel's with Charley: In search of America- John Steinbeck
Btw, Duthie Books on 4th Ave is closing after 52 years. I bet P.C.'s been in there a few times. I've only gone a couple.
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http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1956138,00.html"If you don't know how to read, you're not going to get very far in life." Zhuara Rivera - 14, of Laredo, Texas, on the closure of Laredo's lone bookstore, making it one of the largest U.S. cities without one; the nearest bookstore is now 150 miles away<="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; : hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
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I gave up on The Sound and the Fury. Even with lit notes, I was having too much difficulty figuring out the past/present in the narrative. Back to easy reading! Medusa by Clive Cussler. |
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"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." Robert Heinlein
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Still working on Travels with Charley - enjoying it immensely.
I've decided to read Brecht's Mother Courage next.
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Oh I will. Its just my reading queue. I'm going back and forth between Steinbeck, Hunter S, Brecht plays and Kerouac. You'd think I'd get tired of American travel writing, but I haven't so far.
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I meant 'read' in the past tense, SD. Have you tried The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux? |
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Nope. But feel free to shout out suggestions. My reading sailboat likes to wander. One of my favourite prof's always hints at books I should read through email that he thinks I'd find interesting. I wouldn't have known about Samuel Beckett that way, or Pynchon or that drunk from Memphis on my first flight to Canada convincing me to read Confederacy of Dunces (which I haven't yet, its one of those I need to get to that stares at me from the shelf). And so on.
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I'm pretty much the same, one thing sparks my interest in another. |
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Almost The Truth - Margaret Yorke |
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