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Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? August 2009		119	teelgee, September 3
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BookMooching : A Book Search Among Friends		428	infiniteletters, July 29
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : citizenkelly's aide memoir		154	edwinbcn, July 19
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... for she always has plenty to say, like her or not - but she spent a year, well After Henry, in what became for her The Year of Magical Thinking. We'll probably never know The Last Thing He Wanted, her late great underrated and underappreciated husband, John Gregory Dunne, that is, ...

... threads for me to keep up with, but came in for a peek before year's end to catch up on a few starred ones. Your #55 The year of magical thinking - I have to say I've started this a few times and never managed to get past the first few pages. One of those books I feel I should read as ...

... A ratio of one to thirteen -- I suppose I need to work on this "spirit of giving" thing. Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play by Joan Didion The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble The Missing by Tim Gautreaux The Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter ...

#121: I have to chime in on this. I read The Year of Magical Thinking last year and at no time did I feel that Didion was being self-indulgent. I think she used the book as therapy for herself, as a cathartic release of sorts - fitting since she is a writer.

Erin - Thanks for your review of The Year of Magical Thinking. I started this book about a year ago, but it was too soon after I had experienced a loss. I thought that the book was wonderfully written, but just "too much" for me right then. I think I'll pick it up again next year.

73) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion--Didion's memoir written after a terrible year wherein her husband of forty years died suddenly of a heart attack and her only daughter was hospitalized for months with various life-threatening conditions. Didion describes the processes of ...

55. The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion. I had heard such respectful comments about this book, it should have warned me. I'm quite sure I'm heartless, but this left me cold and, on occasion, annoyed. 56. Free? Stories celebrating human rights. This is a collection of ...

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

... didn’t pick it up. (Darn that Twilight series.) So wonderful I will have to try the girls again later, won’t I! 2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 3. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Cute but not as fun as the Appalachian Trail one. (sounds like ...

Just finished Beach Music by Pat Conroy, am enjoying The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, will begin Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler for book club....

61. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion I've had this one kicking around for a while. And it's also the second copy to ...

... featuring both Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen to: The Discomfort Zone - linked because they're both memoirs to: The Year of Magical Thinking - linked through death/grief to: The Household Guide to Dying - linked through Australian authors to Jasper Jones. I haven't started ...

... I wanted something fluffier to read so I'm also now reading The Household Guide to Dying. (This also follows on from The Year of Magical Thinking for my "Six Degrees" challenge.)

Finished The Year of Magical Thinking and I thought it was an excellent book, really worth reading. And now I've started The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide, with the obvious linked theme of death and grief.

Finished The Year of Magical Thinking and thought it was excellent. Now reading Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw which is a collection of interwoven short stories.

I finished The Year of Magical Thinking and I thought it was a great book. Possibly even a necessary book, being so open about grief while we live in an age where death is sanitised and grief is somehow embarrassing. And I finished reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader to Mr Bear last night! ...

... by Kurt Vonnegut and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath. Guess which one is for teaching -! I'm glad you liked The Year of Magical Thinking, wookiebender. Other reviews I read found it a bit cerebral & detached, even in the process of grieving - but I had a similar experience to you. ...

Still in New York & LA with The Year of Magical Thinking. But it's one of those books that I can't read non-stop (although it's beautifully written and quite an easy read, the subject matter is very hard to immerse myself in for long) so I'm on holidays in Fabletown in New York, in Fables: Storyb ...

... book and re-add it...). Oh well, first time I had any serious hiccups, so they're still doing well in my book! ETA: The Year of Magical Thinking is most excellent! The grief is rather raw, but it's wonderfully written and about such a basic human need and emotion. Why has no one every ...

... with. Finished Affinity and really loved it. Highly recommended (as are all of Sarah Waters' books!). Just started The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

... a river with handcuffs and shackles, in Houdini: The Handcuff King. Not sure where I am now, I've only just started The Year of Magical Thinking!

... to see you found the bookshop. :) Do let us know if you need anything sent over anyhow. And I'm a bit nervous of starting The Year of Magical Thinking because of the whole death & grieving. I can deal with it in novels (I actually rather like a well done sad book), but in reality, it can be a ...

... Mr Rosewater but haven't got very far. Probably needs to be read in more than five minute slots. wookiebender - I loved The Year of Magical Thinking, but can understand how Sarah Waters could completely steal the show.

... any rate, his upbringing and adolescence (what this book is about) was very normal, if almost scarily normal. Next book: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Both are autobiography/memoir books. ETA: But I am being distracted by Sarah Waters' Affinity at the moment, so it'll ...

... that although it was rather black. My mum hated it.) Now, as part of my "Six Degrees" challenge, I should be moving onto The Year of Magical Thinking as I owe that to froggirlwendy at the Oz VBB and both it and The Discomfort Zone are autobiographical, but I've been rather distracted ...

... Rice!"): 3. The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen Through the fact that both are autobiography/memoir: 4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Through the theme of death and grief: 5. The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide And to link the ...

The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2666 Roberto Bolano The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Now Wait For Last Year Philip K. Dick 1789: The Emblems of Reason Jean Starobinski

#8--I've never read any of Joan Didion's except the Year of Magical Thinking which I loved. So this one will definitely go on my TBR list.

Which dude? The author John Dunne died. His wife wrote a book about it. The Year of Magical Thinking. The dude in the movie, played by Robert Redford, was totally created. Based on....1. the lover of Jessica Savitch (a biography of Jessica Savitch was what they were originally hired to ...

... Sobel's Galileo's Daughter. It is one of my all time favorites. I also loved: River of Doubt by Candice Millard The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

... r..." 80) Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1993) I chose this as I have tried a couple of times to read her The year of magical thinking and couldn't get started and felt I should get familiar with her earlier work before I tried again. This essay collection is from her ...

... /> 80) Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1993) I chose this as I have tried a couple of times to read her The year of magical thinking and couldn't get started and felt I should get familiar with her earlier work before I tried again. This essay collection is from her ...

I loved Joan Didion's wrenching memoir about the losses in her life during a one year period called The Year of Magical Thinking. It really is an amazing book!

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Quiet American by Graham Greene

From Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking lacuna, lacunae 1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus. 2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells. 3. Botany. ...

... Presence is equally moving, but infinitely more cerebral. It is a memoir, very reminiscent of Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking, written by the 81-year-old Dannie Abse, following the death of his 78-year-old wife Joan in a car accident. I've read much of Abse's poetry over ...

... can't remember which) and I thought her later book, Why I Hate My Neck, was totally vain and stupid, but the anecdote from The Year of Magical Thinking that really stuck with me is the one about her not wanting to let go of her husband's shoes! Because if he came back--she KNEW he wasn't ...

11. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. I quite enjoyed this book. She writes about the year following her husbands death. Her only daughter is extremely ill in the ICU and unaware her father has even died. Given the depressing situation, the book was not really sad. I am ...

nice review Rebeki! The Year of Magical Thinking sounds like a good read! How's Tolstoy going? I've read Master and Man by him, but wasn't particularly thrilled with it. Hope you like Resurrection better though!

1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion I started Resurrection at the beginning of January, but decided that I needed to read something shorter and instantly emotionally engaging to get me out of my reader's block. I had only vaguely heard of Joan Didion and know ...

>I absolutely LOVED The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. Ditto this. And I wept and wept over The Year of Magical Thinking.

... as I've already tried to read it at least twice. I read Never Let Me Go last year and loved it, and the same with The Year of Magical Thinking although both could be seen as bleak. I just read Cloudstreet last week and really enjoyed it and have had lots more suggestions given to ...

... - Christopher Priest Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee * The Stand - Stephen King The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion The Boys #9 - Garth Ennis The Boys #8 - Garth Ennis Pyramids - Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett The Th ...

Memoir & Biography 1. Name All the Animals by Alison Smith 2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 3. Bringing Home the Birkin by Michael Tonello (READ: 3 Jan 09) 4. A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym 5. Early Bird by Rodney Rothman 6. Late Bloomer's Revolution ...

... of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

... White Tiger—Avarind Adiga 4. Never Let Me Go—Kazou Ishiguru 5. The Road—Cormac McCarthy 6. The Year of Magical Thinking—Joan Didion 7. Bel Canto—Anne Patchett

boblinfortino - The Year of Magical Thinking is on my 888 challenge for this year. I may just be able to sneak it in under the deadline if I start soon... I'll go grab it off the shelves now.

... Terry Kay Empire Falls by Richard Russo Atonement by Ian McEwan Darkly Dreaming Dexter by David Lindsay The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Case Histories by Kate Atkinson The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons and ...

... for the delay in reading your posts. WOW! You have quite an amazing list of books! I'm particularly interested in The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. and thus will read this in 2009. I've also added your book #5 to my tbr pile. I'll take more time later to read your ...

... I was not as fond of the Lewis as the other two. I may have been a bit too young for it at the time. Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking is probably the best memoir on grief that I've ever read. Bar none. Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is about his ...

... Nearly Everything The Book Of Lost Things When You Are Engulfed In Flames The Three Musketeers Wyrd Sisters The Year Of Magical Thinking Disgrace Guards! Guards! The Prestige 20th Century Ghosts Moving Pictures Dreams From My Father Small Gods An Anthropolo ...

Hi Porch reader...I assure you that while the Year of Magical Thinking can be emotionally intense at times, the wonderful way in which she goes about pulling back from that is very affirming. I have been surprised by some of the people I've spoken with who read it, particularly younger people, ...

... Jan Karon's books are some of my favorite comfort reads too. But I was especially glad to read your review of A Year of Magical Thinking. I picked this up about a year ago and read 40 pages or so, but was just overwhelmed by the emotion. I've been meaning to get back to it, and ...

... ls Fup - Jim Dodge Naive, Super - Erlend Loe Light of Day - Graham Swift The Hypocrisy of Disco - Clane Hayward The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff Choke - Chuck Palahniuk I discovered lots of ...

I went from cozies to much deeper reading: 18. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. I cannot remember when I have been so powerfully affected by a book. This is a must read, and is one of my top 5 for the year. 19. Another of my top five is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. ...

... Weiner 2.The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan 3.The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 4.Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle 5.Waiting for Snow in Havan ...

... by Paula Wall Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Emperor's Children by Claire Messud The Known World by Edward P. Jones The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Note ...

A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Life, Love and a Year on the Couch by Lorna Martin

... Acid Alex Boese (weird science experiements) 6. Stuart a Life Backwards Alexander Masters (story of a homeless man) 7. The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion (memoir about grief) 8. My Life at Grey Gardens Lois Wright (memoir) I really enjoyed this section. I don't really read much ...

... recommended. Monster: Living Off the Big Screen By John Gregory Dunne (he was Joan Didion's husband--maybe I should read The Year of Magical Thinking, too. I own it--it was given to me as a gift when my Mother died). Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally ...

I just picked up today at a book sale on a corner a book by Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking. I don't recall if I have ever read Didion, but the girl who sold it to me said, "enjoy it--it's beautiful." So I've put it at the top of my TBR list.

Picked up at a booksale on my corner: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. I have a feeling that there will be other very good buys on books with the financial crisis upon us and recession lurking on the horizon.

... Bridges of Madison County 4) Donated to Friends of the Library booksale One For the Money and Two for the Dough, The Year of Magical Thinking, Pears on a Willow Tree and Quite a Year for Plums. 5) Mailed to friends without expectation of return Are You Somebody? and Love Medic ...

75. A Sister's Secret by Wanda E. Brunstetter (299 pages) 76. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (227 pages)

... alahniuk If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor Non-Fiction (not read that many so just picking two here) The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 84 Charing Cross Road Helen Hanff

... absolutely delightful and so different from anything else I've read. Just a little book though - I read it in an hour. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - I'd wanted to read this for ages and wasn't disappointed by it. So beautifully written but without being mawkish. The En ...

... skugga Saylor, Steven, Arms of Nemesis,I Hades käftar Grisham, John, The Broker, Agenten Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking, Ett år av magiskt tänkande Allende, Isabel, El Bosco de los Pigmeos, Pygméernas skog Connelly, Michael, I lagens limo Lars ...

... ~ William R. Drennan #2 A Fine Balance ~ Rohinton Mistry #3 The Third Angel ~ Alice Hoffman #4 The Year of Magical Thinking ~ Joan Didion

I agree with the recommendations of The Year of Magical Thinking. I just read it this week and thought it was a beautiful book. I really enjoyed The Hypocrisy of Disco By Clane Hayward which is a memoir about growing up in hippie communes in the late 60s/early 70s. It is just the author's ...

The Year of Magical Thinking is probably one of the best books on grief I've ever read. It heads my list for a reason.

... by M.F.K. Fisher A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (one of my favorites) And I second #5 Jesse-wiedinmyer re: The Year of Magical Thinking. Didion's one of my favorite writers.

The Year of Magical Thinking ~ Joan Didion Dispatches ~ Michael Herr Stop-Time ~ Frank Conroy This Boy's Life ~ Tobias Wolff Palimpsest ~ Gore Vidal You might also try something like Modern American Memoirs... Each chapter is an excerpt from a full work ...

... Acid Alex Boese (weird science experiements) 6. Stuart a Life Backwards Alexander Masters (story of a homeless man) 7. The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Read so far: 7 To Read: 1 Crime & Detectives 1.The Naming of the Dead Ian Rankin 2. The Big Blowdown George P Pelecanos ...

Just finished The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - sad but beautifully written. Started The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell this morning - my first venture into Swedish crime writing. It seems good so far.

... my previous comment. There were parts about the court system that were quite amusing. Incredibly bleak though. 25. The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Not exactly a happy read either, but beautifully written and her experience of grief struck a chord with me. I was close to tears ...

... So, for example, "New York, marriage" might get me The Age of Innocence, The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, The Year of Magical Thinking and The Namesake. Two of these I own and are currently in My Library. Two I don't own but have read, so I do not currently have these listed ...

... you there. I'm going to check out Confessions of a Wine Lover as soon as I finish here. Let me know what you think of The Year of Magical Thinking. It was given to me but I haven't read it yet. I'm taking my computer with me when we leave Thursday so I won't have withdrawal. We ...

... 1 year old -Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling -The Wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame And I came home to find The Year of Magical Thinking and Nuns and Soldiers in the mailbox, mooched from another LTer. Just in case I run out of books, I went to the library and found the 2nd ...

... donate to our local library's next book sale otherwise: All Mortal Flesh Julia Spencer-Fleming The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Pressure is a Privilege Billie Jean King Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell (NOT a Virago in case you're looking for ...

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

... of more of these! Two that I read recently that both deal with love and the loss of a spouse are Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, which is simply phenomenal, and Rob Sheffield's Love is a Mix Tape, which I thought was wonderful. I reviewed that one in elsmvst in Nederlandstalige lezers : Wat lees jij nu? (Aug 11, 2008, 3:54pm)

... boek, al kan ik me er niet altijd even goed op concentreren. Vandaag kreeg ik een boek van Joan Didion in handen: Het jaar van magisch denken, over het plotseling overlijden van haar echtgenoot. Het begint veelbelovend, dus dat wacht op mij als ik The memorybox uit heb.

... if you'd like any of them reserved for you. The Memory Keeper's Daughter Nuns and Soldiers-reserved for Cushla The Year of Magical Thinking-reserved for Cushla HeartSick-reserved for Rebecca

... of Air & Shadows by Michael Gruber The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Brookland by Emily Barton Bookmooched: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson I read one and five! What a challenge!

... Dead Man Walking Things We Couldn't Say Under the Banner of Heaven The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo The Year of Magical Thinking The Children's Blizzard Gift From the Sea I'd also recommend In Cold Blood as one I've never forgotten (and I read it in 1969).

... Wallpaper was a quick read but wonderful, stayed with me long after I closed the volume. And it feels so modern! The Year of Magical Thinking , the script of the play was next. This was truly remarkable and I cannot recommend it enough. Devastating clarity about the grieving process, ...

Change of pace - I finished The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Very sad and poignant.

... *½ by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 07/15/08 "The Overcoat; The Nose; Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol 07/15/08 †The Year of Magical Thinking ***** by Joan Didion 07/16/08 The Poisonwood Bible **** by Barbara Kingsolver 07/17/08

EX: The Alchemist, Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1, The Year of Magical Thinking

... north of England) 3. The White Album Joan Didion (essays and articles) 4. The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 5. Screen Burn Charlie Brooker 6. Stuart a Life Backwards Alexander Masters 7. Fil ...

... interest in it at all and its huge so this one may be a struggle so any encouragement on this would be appreciated Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Whatever my book club reads for August which is looking like Breakfast at Tiffany's which I have read before but about 18 ...

It really depends on what you're interested in. Some of my recent favorites, more in the memoir department, have been The Year of Magical Thinking, Name All The Animals, and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. I reviewed the last one my blog http://readerville.wordpress.com

I read The Year Of Magical Thinking in less than twenty-four hours (see? Being unemployed has a plus side!), but now I can't settle on what to read next. I keep picking up books, reading a chapter, and putting them down. Even good ones. It's like... reader's block.

... already temporarily abandoned Fragrant Harbor and Sandman: A Game Of You, both books I was enjoying. I just finished The Year Of Magical Thinking (literally three minutes ago), and now I'm going to hunt for the next one.

... ones I truly disliked and feel rather like I'm living on a lone planet based on their warm receiptions overall are: 1) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (a book club thing I was obligated to read - everyone else in the club despised it too, many could not finish); and 2) Lovely ...

so far: 01. the Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion 02. Bertrand Russell -AJ Ayer 03. Getting What You Came For: the Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D. - Robert Peters 04. Epileptic - David B. 05. Best American Comics 2007 - Chris Ware ed. 06. ...

... Atkinson (2004) 31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990) 32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988) 33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005) 34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002) 35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004) 36. Angela's Ashes, Fran ...

From Amazon: Just So Stories The Courage of Sarah Noble From garage sales: My First Book of Tractors The Year of Magical Thinking The first three are for Charlie's nursery library; the last is for me!

... ories The Courage of Sarah Noble From my garage sale expedition: My First Book of Tractors (also for the nursery) The Year of Magical Thinking (for me!)

... ½ Extra Credit: Non-Fiction {complete} 1. The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn **** 2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ***** 3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris ***½ 4. Supercrunchers by Ian Ayres ***½ 5. What I Talk About ...

Wow, Lamos. Fascinated to hear about The Year of Magical Thinking and will be headed to your blog to see if you've posted a review with more info about this. I have it on my Triple 8 list to read, so am very interested in hearing more.

26. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Took me a while to get into because the book was so different from what I expected but when it ended, I was looking for more from Joan! Brilliant in sharing how Didion tries to make sense of her husband’s unexpected death and his absence from ...

... - touchstone also wont fix - the book is ignorance by Milan Kundera Honorable mentions Waiting for the barbarians The year of magical thinking Middlesex

48. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

#37 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A book about the author's grief process the year after her husband died. Helpful to me as I am close to someone grieving.

... me a couple of weeks to finish - also reading The Mother Tongue - English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion; both books are nearly done. #50 - I picked up The Sea by John Banville yesterday - how did you like it?

... two more- a prequel and sequel to Sabriel. Currently reading...(or thinking about reading...) The Salmon of Doubt, The Year of Magical Thinking and Lirael -the next Garth Nix. Several other novels are calling to me, from BookMooch piles, the local (and fabulous) library system and Hal ...

... but I admit I love the Stephanie Plum series 70. Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters - audiobook 71. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - nonfiction 72. Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan - nonfiction; excellent and highly recommended biography As ...

... R. Drennan 2. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis 3. Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman 4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson 6. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama 7. Listening is an Act of Love by Dave Isay ...

My top three: 1) The year of magical thinking 2) The pursuit of happyness 3) Middlesex

... by Michael Chabon Boone by Robert Morgan - another LT recommendation Inkheart by Cornelia Funke The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - another LT recommendation Sword Song by Rosemary Sutcliff - another LT recommendation The Right Place, the Rig ...

Last week, I finished The vicar of wakefield and The year of magical thinking. I really enjoyed The year of magical thinking, and found it to be a scary read, especially because my husband and I are so very close. Well written and very touching. I am now stuck in a nightmare of a book, D ...

... one and a half were slow, with the last half of the second story and third story getting better. I am now reading The year of magical thinking, which is a book I have been wanting to read for a while.

I finished my first two books Dreamers of the Day (new authors) and A Year of Magical Thinking (memoirs). I will post a review of Dreamers of the Day for early reviewers. After all the praise for Mary Doria Russell and her previous books on LT, I must say I was underwhelmed. I ...

Walking a Mile - Memoir 1. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama 2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 3. Jubilee City by Joe Andoe 4. A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel 5. Candy Girl by Diablo Cody ...

... 6/08) -Home Girl by Judith Matloff (read 5/08) -The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong (read 7/08) -The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (read 1/08) -The Sex Lives of Cannibals:Adrift in the Equatorical Pacific by J.Maarten Toost(read 1/08) -Emer ...

... of consulting : the definitive guide to the consulting process by Mick Cope The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Pleasantries of the incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah The Year of the French : a novel by Thomas Flan ...

The Burning Ashes of Time by Patricia Aithie Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A Year without "Made in China" by Sara Bongiorni Tankful of Time by Michael P. Fong High Times in the Middle of Nowhere by Murray Laurence

... een 43. The Uncommon Reader: A Novella 44. Sabriel 45. Axis 46. The Smoke Thief 47. The Salmon of Doubt 48. The Year of Magical Thinking 49. The Bear Went Over the Mountain 50. Auntie Mame 51. Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter 52. The Shadow of the Wind 53. Agatha Rais ...

A Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion

Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking I have no idea what to start next. I sat on my bed last night, hoping a book would jump off the shelf, screaming to be read, but alas, nothing. **sigh** Jesse_wiedinmyer in Death & books : Books about death (Oct 1, 2007, 4:44am)

... you're looking at it from. There's also How We Die : Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, The Denial of Death, The Year of Magical Thinking, On Death and Dying, The Book Thief, A Grief Observed, etc. Vollmann's opening essay in his abridged Rising Up and Rising Down : Thoug ...

... Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. I think I need something a little more grounded, so I'm starting Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking The Amateur Magician's Handbook The Art of Sexual Magic The Magic Mountain Magic's Pawn

... myself avoiding anything that promises to break my heart. I don't think I have the strength. For example, I'll put off The Year of Magical Thinking for several years I expect.

... verhaal, alleen dan duisterder. En ik ben meteen weer in een nieuw boek begonnen: Het jaar van magisch denken van Joan Didion. Tot nu toe vind ik het heel indrukwekkend.

... that I read - I enjoyed it and have quite a few of hers since - wasn't too crazy about Saint Maybe. I tried reading Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs - couldn't take it. Will have to get rid of his Dry as well.

... Smila's Sense of Snow Michael Ondaatje -- after reading The English Patient Joan Didion -- after reading The year of Magical Thinking Michael Crichton -- after reading The Andromeda Strain (but he's been a disappointment lately) Jacqueline Carey -- after reading Ku ...

... Earth: A Novel Philippa Gregory 24 - Company Man Joseph Finder 25 - The Secret Hour Luanne Rice 26 - The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca Tahir Shah 27 - Outlander Diana Gabaldon 28 - Simple Genius David Baldacci 29 - Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gaba ...

The Year Of Magical Thinking Chuck Klosterman IV The Last Novel The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass The Last Novel Chuck Klosterman IV The Year of Magical Thinking

... this morning. It was a very inspirational trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now I've come back to the United States for The Year of Magical Thinking.

... & enter notebooks individually, either by the year (e.g., Crackle SG, 2001-2003) or by the topic (e.g., Sixteens, Pique year). Ruth

Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer The Midwife's Tale, by Gretchen Moran Laskas The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

I got welcome back to America presents! Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

... blur in the corner of their eye. Regardless of the cost to others. My other favorite book on the subject is Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. A stunning look at the first year.

... are like beautiful watercolour paintings and the story is sweet and uplifting. Another very very cute story is Mabel's magical gardern by Paula Metcalf, the illustrations are soft and the message is great : learn to share. Oh and of course I have to mention The incredible ...

My birthday was this past weekend and I got a lot of books that I'm excited about, including The Year of Magical Thinking, A Confederacy of Dunces, Bel Canto, Straight Man, Mandala, The Book Thief, Howl, Swann's Way, The Trial, and about a dozen others. I also got a gift card to Ha ...

... is also great, in that it carries the emotional weight of 'real life' and is that much more powerful. Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking reminded me of it a lot. Both are excellent. As forZorro, it was I think either written in a bad funk or badly translated- it's got none of ...

... s Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi Non-Fiction: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Personal History by Katharine Graham Hope this helps.

I just finished Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking, which is one of the most powerful books I've read recently. I'm also reading Perfect Heresy by Stephen O'Shea, a history of the (successful) efforts to erradicate the Cathars. I recently finished Labyrinth, a novel in which ...

... Ice Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Anything by Augusten Burroughs: Running With Scissors Dry Magical Thinking Possible Side Effects Sellevision The Nativity play scene from John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany had me laughing so hard I nearly ...

... a new book comes out by an author whose work I already know and enjoy, I will buy their book. That's how I came to read The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, an excellent book, and Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, which wasn't quite so excellent, but well worth it. Used ...

... so I can finally get through it. I zipped through I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron after a melancholy time with A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion this past week. I'm looking forward to Half a Yellow Sun next. Thanks to all the LibraryThing energy (I'm a newbie of a ...

This month I've read: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. Now I am beginning The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett.

... of consulting : the definitive guide to the consulting process by Mick Cope The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Pleasantries of the incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah The Year of the French : a novel by Thomas Flan ...

... - life and love, beautifully told Sex in the City - souls of the shallow, young, status and wealth-obsessed The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - living through the sudden loss of a beloved husband Essays: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts Abou ...

>126: Joycepa, I loved The Year of Magical Thinking also. I did not expect to be so moved by it. Thanks for the reference to Isabel Allende I'm reading another of her books right now (ref. #118) and really love her work. Just added Paula to my catalog as TBR ...

#124 grkmwk: I'm about half-way through now with The Year of Magical Thinking and can hardly put it down. I never expected anything like it. I think that a good part of its power for me lies in Didion's very spare writing. And the way she uses her research techniques to, it seems to me, stay ...

... Not a pleasant way to finish a book. For some quick enjoyment, I picked up Acqua Alta by Donna Leon. #116 Joycepa: The Year of Magical Thinking was one of my top reads in 2006, and is among my favorite books of all time. Hope you enjoy!

Next--tonight--is A Year of Magical Thinking. Can't wait!

Starting A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion tonight. FINALLY got through Caesar Life of a Colossus. I was using it to cure insomnia! Although it did pick up toward the last part of the book. Still--same stuff in Colleen Mc Cullough, better read.

... I can't put words to it, I was somehow expecting something more. >31: marymanhattan, I loved both The Namesake and Year of Magical Thinking. You're in for a treat!

Just finished The Namesake. About to start The Year of Magical Thinking.

... changes in an instant You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. - Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking

I listened to Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking...I don't own a copy of the book...need to when it comes out in paper. Her quote on losing her husband is one of the best I have ever read...goes something like...in one second of one day...my whole existence changed and others were simply ...

... They are: 1. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier 2. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 3. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (finishing tonight) ?4? Probably - The Road by Cormac McCarthy ...

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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boeyn Miss American Pie by Margaret Sartor

... Blakeslee **** I'm reading The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright Memoir/thoughts Teacher Man by Frank McCourt *** Year of magical thinking by Joan Didion **** Deer Pasture by Rick Bass ***** Hard Scrabble by John Graves *** Sports Last Dance by John Feinstein ** This ...

... are also in my catalog, including John Adams, 1776, Skipping Christmas, Seabiscuit, Democracy in America, and The Year of Magical Thinking. Hmm. When I initially put in Good Omens:..., it gave me several versions of the work to choose from. I ran it again and chose a ...

... Our Spoons came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns, the new Salman Rushdie Shalimar the clown, Joan Didon The year of magical thinking, Silk by Alessandro Barrico, The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk, The Contortionist's handbook by Craig Clevenger and Making it ...

I'm reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and Gulag: a history by Anne Applebaum.

I have read some really fascinating memiors in the last year or so, and almost all of them were by women. The year of Magical Thinking was wonderful. I'd actually never read Joan Didion before, but I am quickly rectifying the situation. This was such a clear-eyed look at grief and the ...

The best book I have ever read about death is Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. She wrote what I have felt. I have always been told that good lit make you feel and she is so unbelievable. Even though I was much younger (age 25) when I lost my husband...the pain we shared was the same. ...

Having finished The Year of Magical Thinking last night, I am breaking from my fiction-nonfiction rotation to read Anderson Cooper's Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival. It is very easy to read, but not unintelligent: Cooper's ability to capture the essence of ...