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"Recollections: An Autobiography" by Viktor Frankl
I started this a while back, put it down, then decided if he, and his family could have gone through what they did, I can honor and witness their lives by reading it all. Its a book of not many pages, but powerful nonetheless. I found it in one of my old bookstore visits, so it may be out of print. Check Amazon. Greco
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Count me in for another fan of The Hunger Games. Can't wait to see the movie in the Spring! Disturbing series, especially considering it's for young adults. I got to the end and still couldn't figure out if it was a comedy or a tragedy (you know, in the classic meaning: is there redemption or not?). It's not often I find that.
And... since everyone* on this site writes like David Foster Wallace (at least according to another thread), I'm re-reading his fantastic book of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.** JD * Except me ** Maybe if I include more footnotes, my writing will pass for his too...
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Just finished Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada"- 626 pages of exquiste and wonderful writing...could'nt let it go...it took me a week to finish reading..it took him a lifetime to finish writing. It was about this great writer's life living among the elite upper class, and his awesome love for Ada.
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I'm reading Prey by Michael Crichton and really enjoying it!
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I probably won't be done with the book I'm reading right now until later this week but I'm going to check out The Hunger Games soon!
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(the essay I appreciated so deeply): "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" (Esquire, 1996, under the title "The String Theory"). Last edited by Kätzchen; 12-19-2011 at 10:57 PM. Reason: String Theory is a recurrent theme in my life. |
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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I didn't want to really read it but it was all that was left in my house that I had not touched and I am pleasantly surprised. Also flipping back to The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver on my Kindle...wonderful read
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im reading the great gatsby ....i still have my high school copy and its one of those books i go back to read every now and again...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
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Rereading Tipping The Velvet, and a stack of Buddha books
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Mtn: Have you read Dharma Punks or The Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings on Forgiveness by Noah Levine?
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I'm reading Jeanne Cordova's memoir, When We Were Outlaws. It's about 1970s LA and the early days of the gay movement from the point of view of a butch lesbian feminist activist. I'm halfway through it and really like it.
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I am rereading the "Anne of Green Gables" series
Last time I read them I think I was 14
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Packing up to move has brought on a re-reading frenzy (I think for every 5 books I pack away, I take out at least 3 to read). So, at the moment, I am re-reading several Agatha Christie, a few Anne Rivers Siddons, and, one of my favorites, "The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst
(I'm never going to finish packing, am I? lol)
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