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This is such a good question!
I'm reading Aimee Bender's short story collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt. Her short stories are unconventional (but fun to read) and incorporate magical realism. They remind me of my favorite author Haruki Murakami's stories.
I'm also re-reading Groucho Marx's memoir, Groucho & Me. Whoo! I love his humor.  GO GROUCHO!
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Ooooo!
#162246 - 03/19/05 01:28 PM
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Linz
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Book club! This sounds like such a good idea...if we meet up for dinner I'll raid your shelves!
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I'm reading Inventing the AIDS Virus for school purposes (although it really is quite interesting) and for pure entertainment, a book called Babyville by Jane Green which is pure chicklit 
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Hmm... right now I am reading Masquerade. It's a biography of Deborah Sampson Gannett, who disguised herself as a man and fought in the revolutionary war. It's a mixture of business and pleasure, as it will enevitably help with the dis, but I'm not reading it for class.
And then there's a bunch of reading I need to do for next week I'm putting off. And a bunch for my papers. I'll be working on Slaves in Algiers this week as I have a draft due Friday on my paper for Transatlantic feminisms...
But, last week on vacation I finished Devil in the White City and Name All the Animals. Both were really, really good. Devil in the White City is about the Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer, and Name All the Animals is a memoir about a woman whose brother died and her first love (who was a woman, so not for those who find that offensive).
I liked Memoirs of a Geisha too- and Ruchie, that Frenchwoman book doesn't mention how many women in France stay skinny by SMOKING. 
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You'll raid my boxes you mean - I still haven't unpacked them - haha!
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I haven't read all that much in the past few years, but have been trying to actively start doing it this year. I just finished Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins, which I really liked, and am just starting into Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, although this one is going much slower than the Tom Robbins -- still haven't quite adapted to the writing style.
- Vincent
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RIGHT NOW?
#162421 - 03/20/05 11:51 AM
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RIGHT NOW I'm reading this thread. And it's fascinating stuff. I'd recommend it to anyone!
Bevvy
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LOL, Bev!
#162426 - 03/20/05 11:58 AM
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Augie
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You always make me laugh! 
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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I'm on common sense and the right's of man by Tomas Paine.
Stephie, you mentioned medieval history books on the French Monarcy. I think my lack of paying attention in history class if greatly diminishing my ability to get into the rights of man. From what i remeber reading about Paine he was wrong in someways about his interpritation of france at that time, can't remember though. And my lack of french history has me turned off by the book. Anyway i think i'll get into it when i visit my sisters.
As far as fiction goes i love Asimov. His I robot short stories and foundation novels are the best.
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Sinead,
Another friend that loved the book and saw the movie said it was magnificent, that each frame of the movie was like a painting in and of itself. He guaranteed me I wouldn't be disappointed. Be sure and let me know when you watch it!
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Keep it simple!
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