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dot-matrix:
Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and am now starting Nora Roberts High Noon.....a little romance and suspense is a good thing ;) ;D
shortfiction:
Okay, I made it through The Road. It actually allowed the reader a glimmer of hope, thank goodness.
michaelflanagansf:
I just finished 'Don't Get Too Comfortable' by David Rakoff while on vacation. I love to read essays while I'm traveling - and Rakoff (who has been on 'This American Life') is clever to the point of making me laugh out loud (several times). This collection includes essays on his becoming an American citizen (he was born in Canada), watching people out front of 'The Today Show' and runway models in Paris - a disparate group, to be sure, but somehow it works.
shortfiction:
I just finished a non fiction book called Fleeing Fundamentalism by Carlene Cross, who had been a Fundie minister's wife for a while until some enlightenment occurred after many years of struggle. She held onto some faith but left behing the extremism and dogmatism.
I am about to read some more work by Cormac McCarthy (fiction).
bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
I am currently easing through some of my favorite books: the Gossip Girl books! I love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. They're light and entertaining/amusing as hell, and Cecily Von Ziegesar is doing a really impressive job developing the characters. Blair Waldorf is a brilliantly written character: she's a mean-spirited and abrasive young woman who can be contemptuous toward others because she's discontent, angsty, and insecure. She is obsessed with Audrey Hepburn - she wants to be Audrey Hepburn, and I love that touch because it's a detail that's one of the inner-most recesses of her mind. Audrey is who she envies. She imagines her life is a movie, like so many people I know who tend to make their lives more dramatic than they really are. Because they're bored and unhappy and they have no idea why.
I loved the final Harry Potter except for that crappy epilogue. The Kite Runner was really affecting and quite good.
The next book on my to-read list though is Memoirs of a Geisha. I'm stoked.
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