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Smed - 2006-01-31 15:14:32
I have a whole pile o'books that I haven't read, and probably won't get to until April. I may take some on the road with me whilst I conference.
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Leigh - 2006-01-31 15:29:02
My bedside pile is getting a bit unruly too! I have at least five books, three of which are half-started. Then there are the magazines...probably six of those. Maybe I should spend less time online and more time reading?
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claudia - 2006-01-31 15:33:54
My book list is on my site. Just finished the latest Sue Grafton - was in a long queue at the library for it since before Xmas. Wonderful as always. You must read some Carson McCullers! She is wonderful and sad. Wrote my best ever grad school monograph on her stuff - Southern Gothic what have you.
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teranika - 2006-01-31 15:42:14
Just finished Nelson Mandela's autobiography followed by two Barbara Michaels books. Made a failed attempt at Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, which is piled behind the clock radio. Am now working on A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay which is supposedly 'elegant, sweeping, and colorful...' I'm on page 68 so I haven't reached the part where they sweep yet.
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Anna - 2006-01-31 16:24:45
Cloud Atlas is just fantastic - I wanted to start again as soon as I finished. I feel very comforted by your comment that you must be the only American woman who hasn't read The Kite Runner. Americans get a very bad press here for being uninterested in the rest of the world - clearly not so. I love Elizabeth George too - you have a lot of good times coming up!!
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Miz P - 2006-01-31 20:41:51
Warning: Secret Life of Bees is one giant southern cliche from start to finish. Just my opinion as southern girl.
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V. - 2006-02-01 08:30:20
I have the same situation, though my "to read" pile has extended itself to a shelf on a bookcase. On my nightstand, I have Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (which I'm 1/2 way through), The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (my nephew is urging me to read this as he reads it for class), Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnick (saw him lecture at the CHF and didn't even realize I had his book... need to read it), and I just finished Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley - loved it. Book horders and lovers unite! : )
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lemming - 2006-02-01 14:40:31
"Slaves in the Family" is terrific, as are the Inspector Linley books. :-)
Apart from the usual joyeous academic reading, I'm working on Deborah Tannen's "You're Wearing That?", John Tayman's "The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai", Anne Lamott's "PLan B" and for about the 2, 000th time, Ruth Arthur's "A Candle in Her Room."
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