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10-14-2018, 10:50 PM | #31 |
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10-14-2018, 10:50 PM | #32 |
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*accept for
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10-14-2018, 10:51 PM | #33 |
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**axe hip fur
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10-14-2018, 10:55 PM | #34 |
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sorry i missed it
probably too stunned by buzzard's two-in-one insult of my literary and coffee tastes to pay attention to much else. |
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10-14-2018, 11:18 PM | #35 |
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10-14-2018, 11:47 PM | #36 |
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Somebody point me to his Pinterest so that I know what style of engagement ring to go with.
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10-15-2018, 11:15 PM | #37 | |
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I just finished The Girl on the Train and I didn't watch the movie until afterwards. I'm listening to Into the Water by the same author while I'm in the car (after dropping off the kiddos - I'm in my last class, I'm really strapped for time... in fact, I'm procrastinating now ugh) I'm only a couple of chapters into it, but so far so good. Nat and I are reading A Wrinkle in Time every night, because she loved the movie. I remember it being one of my favorite books in the 3rd or 4th grade. I'm so excited she's enjoying it, but it's really a little over her head. Plan to finish it and reread it with her again after she's a little older. Last edited by obscured01 : 10-16-2018 at 10:58 PM. |
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10-16-2018, 12:16 AM | #38 |
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For what it's worth, I regretted my consecutive reading of The Dark Tower and would split it up if somehow forced to live again.
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11-14-2018, 10:30 PM | #39 |
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In the middle of Gnut Hamsun's "Growth of the Soil". This book may finally burn me out on bucolic rural pre-war fiction for a long while.
On deck: Mid-80s cyberpunk classics (specifically Gibson's "Neuromancer" and the Bruce Sterling edited anthology "Mirrorshades") |
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11-14-2018, 11:59 PM | #40 | ||
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I still need to get on Girl On the Train. I feel like I'll love it. I read wrinkle years ago but didn't care for it. The kid liked the movie ok but has no interest in reading it. :\ Quote:
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11-15-2018, 12:00 AM | #41 |
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I'm currently reading O Pioneers by Willa Cather. It's a gentle, slow paced book but in a good way. It's not a long novel and could easily be read in an afternoon. But I like taking it slow.
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11-15-2018, 12:18 AM | #42 | |
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or is that My Ántonia? |
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11-15-2018, 12:19 AM | #43 |
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I read both in a seminar I took on Cather and a few other authors but I cannot distinguish the two books anymore
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11-15-2018, 12:42 AM | #44 |
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slowly grinding through Identity by Francis Fukuyama
It's good but I always find stuff like this such a grind. Too many ideas to consider in each chapter, to just keep ploughing through, but then when I stop, I'm so reluctant to pick it up again it sort of becomes like going to the gym |
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11-15-2018, 07:42 AM | #45 |
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Finished Hitchhiker's Guide last night. What a bummer. End with the main characters daughter commiting murder and the bad guys destorying all the possible Earths in all parallel universes. Everyone dies and evil prevails.
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11-15-2018, 08:48 AM | #46 |
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The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens.
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11-15-2018, 08:56 AM | #47 | |
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I enjoyed it, no spoilers but I felt the ending could have been handled better. It's pacey and an easy read. Gone Girl is better written although the final section pushes unreality too far. The film made a good decision in changing the ending. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is excellent although the side-plot with the magazine and the industrialist is boring. I actually stopped reading when the main plot finished as it then goes off into the subplot at that point, which held no interest for me.
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11-15-2018, 09:59 AM | #48 |
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Yeah, I think I'm going to read that next. Looks cool.
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11-15-2018, 10:48 AM | #49 |
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11-15-2018, 12:47 PM | #51 |
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Haven't read the book, but the movie is terrible. You're not ridiculous for not having had watched it.
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11-15-2018, 01:16 PM | #52 | |
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Gone Girl is a strong adaptation, you could certainly do a lot worse. I recorded the Sharp Objects serial a while back and when I finally sat down to watch it realized that I'd changed my TV contract so it was locked Fuck! A downloading-i-will-go. |
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11-16-2018, 03:25 PM | #53 |
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drinking: a love story and blackout are both p good first-hand books about alcoholism.
my therapist recommended the first one. |
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11-16-2018, 03:28 PM | #54 |
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i finally finished shadow of the wind at 580-something pages. i miss it. it was a real page-turner as it went on and every time i had the chance i was excited to crack it open to see what happened next.
now i am reading homage to catalonia by orwell. it's his personal account of fighting in the spanish civil war for POUM (Partido Obrero de Unification Marxista). Now that's how you travel. |
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11-16-2018, 05:20 PM | #55 | |
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that image and the wolves from the other Cather book I read are what stuck with me the most |
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11-16-2018, 06:55 PM | #56 |
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i tried neoromancer which is good but just isn't right for some reason.
think i might read some ursula instead. still have like half of the hainish cycle left to devour. |
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11-16-2018, 08:54 PM | #57 | |
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lit: a memoir drink: the intimate relationship between alcohol and women |
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11-16-2018, 08:57 PM | #58 | |
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though i wonder why frank didn't seem more upset; i get his relationship with marie was uh complicated but he seemed to still think highly of her and emil, |
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11-17-2018, 05:37 AM | #59 | |
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11-26-2018, 09:50 AM | #60 |
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I just downloaded the Books of Earthsea, containing everything from the cycle. It's got the last of the stories, which was written not long before Ursula passed. Check out this description of a grimalkin: "The cat sauntered round the foot of the low bed and elevated himself weightlessly onto it. He had been fed. He sat down and washed his face and ears, wetting one paw patiently over and over, and then undertook extensive cleansing of his hind parts, sometimes holding a back paw up with a front paw so that he could clean the claws, or holding down his tail as if expecting it to try to get away. Now and then he looked up for a minute, immobile, with a strange absent gaze, as if listening for instructions. At last he gave a little belch and settled down beside Ged’s ankles, arranging himself to sleep." |
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