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Books Read

Cannery Row (he writes an amazing description of the life in a tidepool)
Eat, Pray, Love (far more enjoyable then I anticipated)
Grapes of Wrath I love Steinbeck
Narcissus and Goldmund (it was a struggle. I couldn't identify with the characters struggles)
Beach Music
Lady Oracle (again Atwood ends her book a few pages shy of the story)
Then She Found Me
Vernon God Little
Anna Karenina (I was disappointed)
3rd Degree
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (the last 14 of 15 pages were missing from the book so I nearly finished this, I love Sedaris)
I am Charlotte Simmons
Simple Genius
The Inheritance of Loss
Me Talk Pretty One Day (I laughed out loud)
New Moon
Twilight
Back on Blossom Street
Oliver Twist
O Jerusalem
Bel Canto
The Double Bind (Wow, I read it fast, I just wish I had read The Great Gatsby first)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
March
The Known World (a bit dark but very good)
I, Elizabeth (I couldn't put it down)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (very good-lots of words I had to look up in the dictionary- I love that)
Surfacing
The Hundred Secret Senses (liked it till last pages. I wasn't convinced. Maybe it's my mood)
Patron Saint of Liars (very good)
Peace Like A River (Won Der Ful)
Step On A Crack (not so good)
2nd Chance
The 6th Target
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Three Musketeers (very exciting)
Water for Elephants (a darling story)
4th of July
The Electric Michelangelo
The Vig
Son of a Witch (better then I expected since I didn't care for Wicked)
The Jane Austen Bookclub
Interpreter of Maladies
Half Asleep in Fish Pajamas
The 5th Horseman
Oryx and Crake (loved it till the last page)
Good Omens (very entertaining)
Roses Are Red
The Namesake (liked it very much)
London Bridges
Wideacre
Judge & Jury
The English Patient
A Walk In The Woods (I wish I had Bryson's gift for descriptive prose)
The Jury (quick crime novel set in San Diego)
Lifeguard
The Moor's Last Sigh (Certainly can't read Rushdie in a day)
Sharp Objects
The Weight of Water
The God of Small Things (Fabulous)
Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors
A Long Way Down (Bloody Fucking Brilliant- Laugh Out Loud ...Mark....not so much)
Resistance (Quick, Good Read)
War and Peace
Saving Fish From Drowning (Very Good)
A Year in The Merde
The Barbarians are Coming
Special Topics In Calamity Physics (EXCELLENT)
The Way People Run
The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night Time (Worth a Read)
The Last of the Mohicans
Angels and Demons
Is Paris Burning
A Widow for A Year
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Dew Breakers
Eat, Pray, Love (far more enjoyable then I anticipated)

Madame Toubab or My Life in Peace Corps Mauritania

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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