Currently Reading (Take 2)

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#126
Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:45pm
I just started yesterday, Not Since Carrie, 40 years of Broadway Musical Flops.
I love it! I can't believe that I didn't read this years ago.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#127
Posted: 7/21/09 at 5:46pm
Just finished The Namesake, just started Ghost Light.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#128
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:18pm
spider, you're going to love Silver Shoes!

I'm reading the second Twilight book.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#129
Posted: 7/21/09 at 7:56pm
Just finished LA Candy.

Please don't hate me. Lol

It was actually pretty good & I can't wait till the next book in the series comes out!
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#130
Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:27am
Long Day's Journey Into Night

Interestingly enough, I read Moon for the Misbegotten first.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#131
Posted: 7/22/09 at 6:42pm
I'm re-reading "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow.

Oh...and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies".....
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#132
Posted: 7/22/09 at 8:48pm
Zorba. I'm usually reading like 10 books at once, though =-P
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#133
Posted: 7/22/09 at 10:08pm
I was sadly disappointed in Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. I was so excited that I went out and bought it new, which I never do. I am thrift stores and Amazon used all the way, baby!
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#134
Posted: 7/23/09 at 2:28am
Just finished The Yiddish Policeman's Union, by Michael Chabon, and Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. All of them were just wonderful. Now I'm back to Chabon with The Final Solution, which is short enough for me to finish tonight.

Next up is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre. And then another library run!
Updated On: 7/24/09 at 02:28 AM
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#135
Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:56am
About 100 pages into THE STRAIN, new book by Guillermo del Toro (yes, the film director) and Chuck Hogan. So far, a real page-turner!
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#136
Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:23am
Work Hard. Be Nice. by Jay Matthews

It's basically a biography of Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the creators of the public charter school network called the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP).
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#137
Posted: 7/23/09 at 6:11pm
A friend of mine was telling me abot the book "Tweaked - A Crystal Meth Memoir" by Patrick Moore. Got home last night and found a package and it was inside. So I am reading it next!
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#138
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:27pm
Damn, Plum....you are a fast reader
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#139
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:38pm
I've been travelling a lot lately. When you spend 6 hours in one day on a train, trolley, or bus, you get lots of chances to read. (That was not a good day, though. Urgh.)
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#140
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:43pm
Aw, I'm sorry about the not good day. I don't care if I was taking a 20 hour car ride, I would not be able to finish as many books as you do *jealous*
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#141
Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:54am
OK, I wanted to start a thread, and couldn't see a way to under the current configuration. Are we just supposed to 'give up and go home'?
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#142
Posted: 7/24/09 at 9:20am
Olive Kitteridge. Cannot put it down.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#143
Posted: 7/25/09 at 6:56pm
I just (as in ten minutes ago) finished Olive Kitteridge and am still digesting it. I'll be interested in what others thought. There are so many little insights that ring true about one's relationship to others in their world.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#144
Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:31pm
ULYSSES by James Joyce

I'm gonna get through this...I'm gonna get through this...
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#145
Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:37pm
Stick with it, Dolly. It's worth it.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#146
Posted: 7/26/09 at 12:04pm
I'm reading way too many books at the same time. I don't know why I do this to myself.

I just finished:

Wuthering Heights
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Pride and Prejudice
Complete Plays of Sarah Kane

Working on:

The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
The Lighting Thief- Rick Riordan
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Time Traveler's Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
Persuasion- Jane Austin
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#147
Posted: 7/26/09 at 1:06pm
Iflit, I loved Olive Kittredge. We just read it for our book club which is meeting this week - I think it will spark a good discussion! You should read Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout too. Very good.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#148
Posted: 7/27/09 at 2:16pm
HP5. Making my way through the whole series again so there's no temptation to bring the books back to school with me. Then I'll try to make it up by reading Roth's American Pastoral.
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#149
Posted: 7/27/09 at 2:27pm
For some reason Judy Garland's life fascinates me haha I am on my third biography in 2 months:
Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows - Lorna Luft

I just read
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland - Gerald Clarke
and before that:
Judy Garland: The Secret Life of an American Legend - David Shipman

Very interesting stuff in there, i know that i have to take everything in there with a grain of salt but still there has got to be some truth in it right? haha
But if you have any interest in Judy Garland I definitely recommend reading one of the biographies on her!
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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)#150
Posted: 7/27/09 at 3:01pm
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - so far, so good.
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