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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 1010 Category Challenge : kristenn's 101010 attempt | | 32 | kristenn, Wednesday 9:23am |  |
| 999 Challenge : Zero's 999 | | 66 | zanix, December 2009 | |
| 250 book challenge : Zero's 2009 Challenge | | 123 | zanix, December 2009 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Zero's 2009 Challenge | | 190 | zanix, December 2009 | |
| Reading Globally : Zero's 2009 World Tour | | 6 | zanix, December 2009 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : sydamy's 50+ book challenge for 2009 | | 145 | bonniebooks, December 2009 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : brenzi | | 178 | brenzi, December 2009 | |
| The Prizes : The National Book Award | | 50 | avaland, November 2009 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : bonniebook's 50 book challenge 2009 | | 313 | billiejean, June 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 23 May, 2009? | | 242 | Breez, June 2009 | |
| The Prizes : The Pulitzer | | 89 | Mr.Durick, April 2009 | |
| Book talk : Fun Exercise that I swiped from Facebook: | | 97 | MissTeacher, April 2009 | |
| The Prizes : National Book Critics Circle Award | | 42 | rebeccanyc, March 2009 | |
| Club Read 2009 : INTERESTING ARTICLES on books, authors, reading ...etc | | 134 | rebeccanyc, February 2009 | |
| 250 book challenge : Dyrfinna's 2008 Reading | | 36 | Dyrfinna, January 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads June 2008 | | 31 | bnbooklady, July 2008 | |
... 12/15/09
402. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos 12/16/09
403. Myles Before Myles by Flann O'Brien 12/17/09
404. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon 12/18/09
405. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann 12/19/09
FILM: Winter Light (1962) 404. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon 12/18/09
405. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann 12/19/09 ... reading it. Some random fear it's not as good, I suppose.
Possibilities
- The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
- The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
- Codex by Lev Grossman
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Sus ... 55. The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
I was really looking forward to reading this book. The little blurb I had read sounded great. It was a NYT notable book. All things looked good. Was it bad, no, just didn't really live up to my expectations. It was another of those split stories. ... ... Qualities by Robert Musil {9/14} {+7}
Belgium - The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon {8/8}
Bosnia - The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon {12/18}
Bulgaria - Auto-da-fé by Elias Canetti {11/22}
Croatia - On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža {8/3}
Czech Republ ... I read The Lazarus Project and enjoyed a lot of it, but Hemon's story seemed to lose its focus in the second half, making it a difficult book to like, or to recommend. ... today I finished Out Stealing Horses - this Norwegian novel is spare, moving and very satisfying. I'm about to start the Lazarus project - has anyone read it?
... Steig Larsson
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Amy and Isabel ... ... by Marilynne Robinson
2. The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
3. Indignation by Philip Roth
4. The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
5. Fine Just the Way it is by Annie Proulx
6. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
7. A Mercy by Toni Morriso ... ... category:
Fiction Finalists
Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Marilynne Robinson, Home
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge
Poetry Finalists
August Kleinzahler, S ... ... Adania Shibli
*Review section. Reviewed are five or six novels which don't seem to have English translations but also The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon, The White-Haired Melody by Meredith McKinney, Mansarda by Daniel Kis, Deaf Sentence by David Lodge, This Must Be the Place ... ... by Saul Bellow {11/5}
12. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth {11/24}
13. Life of Pi by Yann Martel {12/15}
14. The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon {12/18}
15. The Book of Night Women by Marlon James {12/23}
16. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah {12/24}
17. Sky Burial by Xi ... The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ... She can speak four languages, but her brother can speak all these and French and Polish besides.
from The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon. ... Stover (48)
244. In the Mind’s Eye- Thomas G. West (397)
245. I Was Told There’d Be Cake - Sloane Crosley (230)
246. The Lazarus Project - Aleksandar Hemon (294)
247. I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle (255)
248. Tweak - Nic Sheff (325)
249. Nudge - Richard T. Thaler/Cass R. Su ... The Lazarus Project is metafiction blended with historical fiction and travelogue. The author also had a photographer collaborator with each chapter featuring a black and white photograph. I liked the book but I have my doubts that it has wide appeal.
Shadow Country is a reworking of a ... ... Lebanon. It combines A Thousand and One Nights type stories with the lives of four generations of a modern Lebanese family. The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon. Bosnia. This one is hard to pigeonhole. It goes back to pogroms in Eastern Europe then comes to Chicago in the early 20th century ...
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