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Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 3) by Alexander McCall Smith
Brazil on the Move by John dos Passos
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Cartesian Sonata: And Other Novellas by William H. Gass
Blow-Up, And Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
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About me Fresh outta small-town high school I enrolled in a Computer Science program in the big city. Changed my major to English because, hey, I liked reading. Read, wrote, graduated and moved West. Ended up working at a computer anyway. Went to massage school. Got married. Bought a house. Quit my job; started my own business.
Trying to pay the mortgage, cook dinner, and find time to read.
Need to climb some mountains. Need to write some words.
About my library One day I hope to have read more than 50% of the books that I own; maybe that's not that far off, I'll have to check into that. Book buying was a bad habit, but one that will be resumed as income increases.
Everything that I've got listed on LibraryThing I own, and they're all in one room–aside from the cookbooks. If I've rated a book on LibraryThing, it means I've read it, at some point. Then, there's tags: if I tagged it read, I've read it since I joined LibraryThing.
Oh yeah, and some of these books are my wife's.
That is, they're all our books.
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You've got pleny of excellent selections on your shelves already. No need to buy something new. Assuming you haven't already read these, you can't go wrong with The Royal Family by Vollmann (though, for summer, it's not exactly light reading, but why do people need light reading in the summer, anyway, I've never understood that?). You definitely can't go wrong with Infinite Jest, Foucault's Pendulum, or House of Leaves. I recently finished Ishiguro's, Never Let Me Go, and boy, that book is still ricocheting around inside my skull. I think in the coming decades it will join the ranks of the greatest dystopians of all time. Loved The Recognitions. Loved too what I read of McElroy's Women & Men. Hope that helps.
Hey, speaking of dystopias, how was The Handmaid's Tale? Heard good & bad stuff about it, always curious to give it a go.
Oh, and I'm presently 150 pgs into Gravity's Rainbow (my 4th attempt) and I'm loving it; not feeling the pressure to necessarily understand it at all times but just appreciating the language & writing and going with the flow. Believe I'll complete it this time.
Talk to you later,
"Lola"
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:30 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2008
Warmly,
Lola (btw, I'm really not a woman...giggle)
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:03 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2008
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