jmnixon95
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| Ookla wrote: | Nearly finished with this, and I hate to see it end. Murakami is brilliant.
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I love Murakami; I read this book around this time last year. I'd love to read it again sometime soon. It was the first book of his that I read. Since then, I've read Norwegian Wood and after the quake, and part of 1Q84.
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Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
pg. 137/288
Published 1982
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Jory
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Another purchase today:
Also known as...
Also known as...
Unfortunately, the copy I bought has the third cover. But I'm a cheap bastard, and it was the difference between paying $0.60 and paying $5.40. |
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| Jory wrote: | Another purchase today:
Also known as...
Also known as...
Unfortunately, the copy I bought has the third cover. But I'm a cheap bastard, and it was the difference between paying $0.60 and paying $5.40. |
Thanks to Westlake/Richard Stark, Stephen King was able to come up with the pen name of Richard Bachmann, and Thad Beaumont's alias/evil unborn twin George Stark in The Dark Half.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
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jmnixon95
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Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
pg. 268/288
Published 1982
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I'm reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. It's not fictional, a memior, or anything with a plot, but it's still a book. 
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The book A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle and just started reading it the other day.
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lostgirl1986
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"Home Again"-Kristin Hannah
At the center of Home Again is Madelaine, a brilliant cardiologist, a loving mother, a tender friend, a woman full of self-doubt. It is the story of her daughter, Lina, a confused and angry rebel and of the two very different men Madelaine loves: Francis, a priest searching for his faith, and Angel, a talented, but cynical man. When tragedy brings them together again, they must learn to forgive the betrayals of the past and find the courage to love again. Touching and inspiring, it is also a story of modern-day miracles, medical, and, perhaps, those not of this world. |
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Xena_Sophia
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The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict --- Trenton Lee Stewart
Mastiff --- Tamora Pierce
The Elegant Universe --- Brian Greene
My current reading materials... The first two are short-term light reading, by favorite authors, and the third is long-term reading for content interest.
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| Gazelle wrote: | | The book A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle and just started reading it the other day. |
Kind of a frustrating book, for reasons you'll uncover soon enough. If you get discouraged by it, move on to the Holmes short stories, starting with the ones in The Adventures. Doyle's Holmes short stories are, in general, much better than his novels. |
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Just finished: fiction The Dragon's Tooth bu ND Wilson, and nonfiction am re-reading Born to Run by Christopher McDougal.
As for fiction out-loud to my kid, re-reading (we have been through the series twice already in his lifetime and I've read the series at least six times in mine), Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Rings, and nonfiction: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fisher. |
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'The Timewaster Letters' by Robin Cooper,
it's a collection of absurd and surreal letters that the author has sent to various businesses and organisations (inc. Ikea and the British Halibut Association) I recommend it to anyone who likes a good practical joke! |
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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
pg. 51/864
Published in 2005
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"A Simple Spring"-Rosalind Lauer
Book #2
Although Sadie King is blessed with the voice of an angel, she never thought that following the song in her heart would take her far beyond the strict boundaries of her Amish faith and away from the only home she’s ever known. But during her rumspringa, one road leads to another, and suddenly she’s secretly performing with a band. Now she faces an impossible choice between the music in her heart and the traditions branded upon her soul.
Mike Trueherz is a dedicated young paramedic who finds a kindred spirit in Sadie. Torn between family duty and his desire to pursue a life beyond his father’s rural medical practice, he is inspired by Sadie’s honesty and courage.
While spring unfurls rich colors and bounty through the countryside of Lancaster County, Sadie and Mike must reconcile their families’ expectations with their own callings. Ultimately, their faith in each other and the God that has brought them together will give them the strength and the peace to take a chance—and to make the biggest decision of their lives.
A coming-of-age story reflecting the deepest messages of love, A Simple Spring is music for the heart. |
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A beautiful book I stumbled upon... 4 pages in I was hooked.
"Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.
The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
Each essay reveals deep insights into the impulses of the human heart and mind. The Chicago Post said of The Prophet: “Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one’s ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes . . . If there is a man or woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man’s philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth.”
"In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya"
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