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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    smarchee wrote:
    Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane


    ooh i love his writing.. if you havent already you should read coronado.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • PJ212
    PJ212 Posts: 827
    Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

    Always nice to kick off the summer with a sweet love story.
    2000: CLT, Greensboro, 2003: MSG 1 & 2, 2008: MSG 1 & 2, 2009: LA 2 & 3, 2011: Vancouver, 2012: Missoula, 2013: Wrigley, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Voodoo, SD, LA 1 & 2, OAK, PDX, Vancouver, SEA, 2014: Cincy, ACL1, Tulsa, Lincoln, Memphis, Moline, St. Paul, MKE, DEN, Bridge 1 & 2, 2015: GCF, Mexico City, 2016: FLL, MIA, TPA, Greenville, Hampton, Columbia, MSG 1 & 2, Bonnaroo, Telluride, Fenway 1 & 2, Wrigley 1 & 2, 2017: ROHF, 2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Seattle 1 & 2, Missoula, Wrigley 1 2021: SHN, Ohana 2 & 3, 2022: LA 1 & 2, PHX, OAK 1 & 2, Fresno, MSG, BNA, B&B, STL, OKC, DEN, 2023: MSP 1 & 2, CHI 1 & 2, DFW 2, AUS 1 & 2, 2024: Vancouver 1 & 2, LV 1 & 2, SEA 1 & 2
  • AELARA
    AELARA Posts: 803
    Sifting through the madness for the word - Charles Bukowski
    I am mine!
  • pickupyourwill
    pickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    I plan to finish Twilight's New Moon and Eclipse tonight! I might not get any sleep. :shock:
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson

    Trois Chambres a Manhattan by Simenon

    still Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    Sageing While Ageing - Shirley Maclaine
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    Just finished "The Crying of Lot 49". Some weird shit there but I'm used to it with Pynchon. On a totally different note, I'm now onto "Everything Is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer. I've read "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" and loved it to pieces, but hadn't gotten around to this one until now. I'm a hundred pages in and I'm adoring it already. Everyone should read his stuff, it's fantastic.
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Ground beneath her Feet - Salman Rushdie
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    just finished Billy Blockade by Stephen King, quick short story

    now onto Uncle John's Bathroom Reader 18th Edition ;)
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • vduboise
    vduboise Posts: 1,937
    Spinward Fringe: Frontline by Randolph Lalonde.

    I got the first book in the series free through BN- and I liked it enough to continue with the remaining books in the series. This is the forth book, and I'm really liking this author.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    'The Wretched of the Earth' - Frantz Fanon

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    Concerning Violence: http://www.openanthropology.org/fanonviolence.htm
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    I just finished Winter Vault by Anne Michaels. It was the best book I read all year. 4.5/5 stars. She is able to write the depth of a particular emotion through the smallest of actions. Sentences are rarely long except when the characters tell stories. They tell a lot of stories.

    There is nothing that makes me feel so alive, and know why I'm on this earth, as reading incredible fiction, except for unbridled joyful humor.

    There are two books that display the depth of an emotion, and the emotional breadth of the human experience:

    Unless by Carol Shields
    The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

    I started The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    The Private Patient by P.D. James

    (a woman at work recommended it and lent it to me cause she noticed I read books)
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • Back_Pedal
    Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    I'm taking some time off from fiction for a bit to read some more humorous/factual books. I'm currently reading Death From the Skies by Philip Plait, which discusses many possible doomsday scenarios with astronomical origins, and Why We Suck by Denis Leary, because it's just funny.
    Thanks EPOTTSIII!
    "Vinyl or not, you will need to pay someone to take RA of your hands" - Smile05
    424, xxx
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    imperial bedrooms - bret easton ellis.

    its just like a class reunion.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Just finished Guernica by Dave Boling. It's about the tragic bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Great book! The events also influenced Picasso.
    guernica-picasso.jpg
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    dunkman wrote:
    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
    I read that about 2 years ago. I thought it was brilliant!
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • bernmodi
    bernmodi Posts: 631
    South - The Endurance Expedition, by Ernest Shackleton

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