sagedautumn
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by sagedautumn on Jan 7, 2007 13:12:44 GMT -5
I've read Song of Solomon.. It's really good.. A lot of biblical allusions/ African Folklore if u haven't already figured that out.. It's really good. OK i'm being redundant i'll stop
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Post by girlinglasses on Jan 20, 2007 15:08:14 GMT -5
I"m currently on The Time Traveller's Wife. I have a few books that have been sitting on my shelf for a while that I keep putting off, especially the longer ones. 1. Anna Karenina 2. Vanity Fair 3. Gone With the Wind (I started this ages ago, but I can't seem to stay with it) 4. A Million Little Pieces 5. Forever In Blue: The Fouth Summer of the Sisterhood
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
ancora imparo
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jan 20, 2007 15:24:50 GMT -5
After High Fidelity, I think the next 5 for me will be:
-What is the What -Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood -Bill Bryson's African Diary -13 ways of looking at the Novel -George and Sam: 2 Children, 1 family, and Autisim
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bookworm148
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of a sky of a tree called life."
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 30, 2007 22:31:05 GMT -5
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Life of Pi The Portable Dorothy Parker The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Right now I'm reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Post by Hanna on Aug 30, 2008 4:59:36 GMT -5
My next five are: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Sula by Toni Morrison The Haj by Leon Uris Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers Brideshead Revisite by Evelyn Waugh
huzzah for old threads:)
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Post by neveralone on Aug 30, 2008 9:16:29 GMT -5
Well, I don't have a pile of books that I haven't read, but five books on my TBR list I really want to read are:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Under the Overpass by Mike Yankoski The Know-it-All by A.J. Jacobs The Secret Life of Bees The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (I live 15 minutes away from CMU)
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Post by greengirlpenguin on Aug 30, 2008 9:36:57 GMT -5
I am reading Evil Genius right now. Then
Pride and Prejudice Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Grimm Fairytales Wuthering Heights
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jella
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by jella on Aug 30, 2008 12:44:24 GMT -5
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Emma by Jane Austen The Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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Halie
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by Halie on Aug 30, 2008 23:50:22 GMT -5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Vanity Fair The Book Thief Madame Bovary A Much Married Man
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cheylyne
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by cheylyne on Aug 31, 2008 13:11:38 GMT -5
Kitchen Boy: A Novel Of The Last Tsar by Robert Alexander Tales of Hoffman by E.T.A Hoffman The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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ohcaptain
First piece published in the school’s newspaper
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Post by ohcaptain on Sept 15, 2008 9:47:13 GMT -5
I'm starting college tomorrow, so I don't know how much time I'll have for extracurricular reading, but here's five books I'm bringing with me just in case:
Lolita Anna Karenina Emma Diary by Chuck Palahniuk Great Expectations
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sylviaplath
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by sylviaplath on Sept 15, 2008 13:09:47 GMT -5
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - The Wicked Pavillion by Dawn Powell - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - The Green Mile by Stephen King
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Sept 16, 2008 7:54:28 GMT -5
Almost Moon by Alice Sebold The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall Oracle Night by Paul Auster Night Train to Lisbon by Paul Mercier The Wave by Morton Rhue
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Post by xororygilmorexo on Sept 16, 2008 19:47:19 GMT -5
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 1984 - George Orwell
Good picks? [/color]
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Post by ace on Jun 14, 2012 15:17:40 GMT -5
A Million Little Pieces- James Frey Wicked- Gregory McGuire Scoop- Evelyn Waugh Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer Last Exit to Brooklyn- Hubert Selby Jr
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