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... Lethem.
Chronic city : a novel / Jonathan Lethem.
Everything is illuminated : a novel / Jonathan Safran Foer.
Extremely loud and incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer.
The road / Cormac McCarthy
The story of Edgar Sawtelle : a novel / David Wroblewski
White teeth : a ... ... Greil Marcus (maybe one essay a week?)
* ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
* at least one novel by Nicholas Mosley\
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
* Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas
* The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino ... Mahy's The Catalogue of the Universe is probably worth looking at too.
An interesting child character is Oskar in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but I can't remember if he is actually a prodigy but Ender in Ender's Game and Danny in Chaim Potok's The Chosen definitely are.
... Got my copy of Under the Dome today... sorry, guys, but I am a Constant Reader.
Also started Fires on the Plain and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Good stuff both. 24. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
this was heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking that's it over, and it's heartbreaking that my time with Oskar Schell is over.
to say it was an incredibly beautiful read would be an understatement. ... Right Attitude To Rain, Involution Ocean, PP&Z, The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, The Wasp Factory, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
heh. I appear to be in league with Mary. Sounds like being in league with the devil... #47: I read Foer's Everything is Illuminated and enjoyed it - more than I thought I would, in fact - so I will give Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a shot. Into the BlackHole it goes! And there goes #65, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Very emotional and well written book. I love Foer, I love his writing, I love the styling of the novel, it is worth five stars! The last book of this fast reading week is #6 of the 1010 challenge: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I have and have read Everything is illuminated. Extremely Loud is an incredibly sad and touching story about dealing with loss. The main character is Oskar, who ... Finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I loved Everything is Illuminated, and I loved this one. It was a very touching tale.
Now I am going to read The Historian again, one of my rereads for the 1010 challenge. Just finished In Alle Staten and will start Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close later today. ... The Outsider, Pernod, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Story, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Peace Like a River, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Hiroshima and The Road. If you have read some of these, do you agree or disagree, and why?
3. The novel mentions many ... ... Houellebecq
5- Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
6- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
7- Life: A User's Manual - Georges Per ... I myself bought Jane Eyre, The Charlemagne Pursuit (Steve Berry) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer) at the new (newly moved) bookstore near my mom's last weekend. The bookstore itself was a disappointment, but these books were reasonably priced, so I had to ... At the bookstore I got Jane Eyre, The Charlemagne Pursuit (Indiana Jones/Da Vinci Code like adventure) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I am just going to work all my new buys into the 1010 challenge, because I feel I must read what I buy to justify it :D ... no-thinking-required, Indiana Jones, Dan Brown like mystery adventure. Nazis + Charlemagne, what could be cornier.... ;)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer - On my wishlist since it came out, so I finally got it. C-10 - Catchall
4/10
1) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (Started 22-10-2009 - Finished 23-10-2009 #6)
2) She - H. Rider Haggard (Started 2-12-2009 - Finished 7-12-2009 #21)
3) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie ... Book #46: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The story of a boy who is still emotionally searching for his father who died in the WTC on 9/11. It's very hard to find books that convey the sadness of 9/11 and the people it left behind without getting too complicated, ... ... by Miriam Toews
C. Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
D. Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
E. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FOer
F. The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
G. A Good and Happy CHild by Justin Evans
H. Hating A ... ... Lace Reader and it didn't do much for me, so I left it in a hotel room somewhere along the road.
This week I've got Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close going. I own this book but haven't gotten around to reading it, and the author will be at the Texas Book Festival this year. ... of only two books I've read in the past couple of years that were page-turners for me (The Time Traveller's Wife and Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close) but that's a personal preference thing, and you may not enjoy them as much as I did, which is a pitfall of this type of slump.
I ... ... work together in interesting enough ways to make it worth it. Foer is someone who really interests me, but I think I like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close better.
... rather than 'horribly dated'.
Richard, I found Everything is Illuminated totally unreadable (though I really liked Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close).
>225 yes, apparently Jordi Savall still leading, and "virtuosic" - husband says it was the highlight of the festival for him. The Gr ... ... are going to discuss. I went to Borders and could only find one of them I will look further afield in the following weeks.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
... 5.7
5 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 8.14
6 Lamb 8.27
7 Hearts of Horses 8.13
8 Nineteen Minutes
9 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 9.27
10 Through the Glass Darkly
... an adult, my favourite books are:
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer
and anything by Marian Keyes for a total comfort read.
As a child, two books that I've never forgotten ... ... LOTR trilogy, which I enjoyed. My favourite books are ones that are a quite quirky, like The Time Traveller's Wife and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close hmmm. Idle hands are the devil's resurrection stone.
I haven't read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (although two copies arrived at my place this week - weird), but i have read Frankenstein.
I haven't read River Secrets, but I have read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ... man
21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
22. The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
23. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
24. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
:) 046. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 02/07/09
047. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 02/08/09
048. The Essays by Francis Bacon 02/08/09
049. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald 02/09/09
050. Confessions by Augustine of Hippo 02/10/09
FILM: Trois ... 047. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 02/08/09
048. The Essays by Francis Bacon 02/08/09 Thanks for the review of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, I recently added it to my own list. It sounds like you didn't find it overly satisfying, but maybe I'm misinterpreting. Did you enjoy it? ... my list, but not a category. I plan on rereading Night (barely remember it), The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I was also considering Schindlers Ark and The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Michael Chabon will be at the our local Jewish Book Fes ... ≥21C*
1. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri {1/16}
2. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich {1/19}
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer {2/8}
4. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman {3/6}
5. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo {3/16}
6. The Dying Animal by ... Just finished Norwegian Wood and Prodigal Summer and am now onto Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
ahhh I love winter break. All that graduate school was beginning to interfere with my reading time. ... both on the 1001 list, first version anyway. I tried The Corrections years ago and couldn't finish it. I also found Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close an interesting read but I can't remember much about it now. ... and the second half is a completely engaging coming of age story.
The only other book you have listed that I've read is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I was the only one out of our book club who didn't like it. It's very creatively written and there are lots of unique features to it ... ... The Resurrectionist last week (liked it a lot, but felt like there were some rushed moments; still very good) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer this morning (I enjoyed it, but was also happy to just be DONE. Not the easiest read ever).
Still working ... 187. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer ... young girl's death in Pennsylvania. Slightly twee, but that often works at times like these.
And Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a book that I loved, despite myself. It should have been too much, yet worked beautifully.
Lastly, James Baldwin's "torontoc in Book Nudgers : 12/13 - Nudge Request! (Dec 13, 2008, 11:08pm) ... have read Wide Sargasso Sea -I would nudge that as a great followup to Jane Eyre. I also liked bothThe Corrections and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close very much- so a secondary nudge to both those books after the Jean Rhys. Probably not great books to follow Jane Eyre with but I would nudge Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which I really, really loved and found very moving. Also very much enjoyed The Corrections. I've never read the Rhys myself, somehow, but it sounds like a sensible post-Eyre move to me. ... Franzen
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Double by Jose Saramago
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
I'll finish by ... ... 3*/5
74. Emerald Enigma by C.J. Westwick. Thriller 3*/5
75. The Family Trade by Charles Stross. SF 3*/5
76. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Fiction 4*/5
77. Murder in Baker Street edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Mystery 3*/5
78. A Faint Co ... ... unread.
It would be good to hear what in particular you liked about it - I'd like to know what it is I missed. I loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the short fiction of his that I've read in newspapers etc., so it's not a generic Safran Foer problem. On the subject of "What are you not reading now", I have given up on Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, fifty pages in. Too cute. ... got from the library (because it's not safe to spend money on modern fiction), and am also reading, On Chesil Beach and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. 40. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
pgs: 326. Finished 24 October.
total pages: 10797 ... flashback-to-the-shtetl section and never emerged. Am I just a philistine? What have I missed?
(note: I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close so it's not just not liking the Safran Foer style. curious.) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? You can vote on line at http://www.kpbs.org/onebook. Here are the nominees:
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
What is the What? by David Eggers
The website gives a brief synopsis of each book. ... then respond with updates.
1. 1-1-08: We need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver c. 2003 (fiction)
2. 1-12-08: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer c. 2005 (fiction)
3. 1-14-08: Family History by Dani Shapiro c. 2003 (fiction)
4. 1-20-08: One Mississi ... ... Wrinkle in Time
The Sugar House/Salt
The Elements of Grammar/Me Talk Pretty One Day
A Circle of Quiet/Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Fountainhead/Deserts ... to it rather than read it. I think it would work well as a back-to-back read with her husband Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, if only to really pick out the parallels in it. (I had about a year between the two, which I regretted.)
I liked Prep, but I know ... #32: Ah, good. I got a copy from Bookmooch a month or two back, and have been thinking of reading it soon. (I liked Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close fairly well, and I've heard that Everything is Illuminated is better.) ... Gods and although it took me some time to get into it, I have really enjoyed reading it. Next up either Regeneration or Extremely loud and Incredibly Close. Amazon was kind enough to send me (after I sent them a credit card number):
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer;
The Secret River by Kate Grenville;
and The Writing Life by Annie Dillard.
These have all been on my wish list for a long time. ... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffran Foer
I just went to double check the book and it is, so I'll just find something else for a first line. ...
Also recommended: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and Everything is Illuminated (another book-to-film) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, both by Jonathan Safran Foer. Bees is an easy read; Foer's require some effort, but he's original and imaginative, and very funny in ... ... want to delve deeper, try the audio version. It looks like it has at least one of the same narrators as Foer's other novel (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) -- which was the first audiobook I've ever been able to get through. ... through feelings. In a style reminiscent of Nicole Krauss's The History of Love and Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Block explores the themes of love and loss, remembrance and forgetting.
Block's characters were well drawn and believable. The ... As long as they stay faithful to the books then Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close would be an interesting movie and they ought to have a soundtrack that includes Simon and Garfunkel's song The Only Living Boy In New York.
Also The History of Love would be a good movie but possibly hard to ... Hmmm, let me go look at my list.
FICTION
Best: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Worst: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
NON-FICTION
Best: Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Worst: Red Zone Blues by Pepe Escobar In alphabetical order:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffran Foer -- creative and emotional; packed with spot-on details
Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott -- gentle and inspirational
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan -- I’m still in this novella’s ... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I loved it at first, mostly because of the main character. But as the book went on, it got harder to follow, and the writing style started grating on me. I ended up not being able to finish it. So far:
1 - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2 - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
3 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4 - Perfume: The story of a murderer by Patrick Suskind
5 - Choke by Chuck Palahnuik ... middle of Snow Crash which I'm reading for class and greatly enjoying so far.
Over Thanksgiving break, I hope to start Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. 49. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer ... now and the end of December, so perhaps I'll get through a few more...).
24. The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
25. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
I seem to be going through a bit of a phase with child protagonists, and have enjoyed them all - but I ... From Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer:
"Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because ... 24. Freedom's Apprentice * Very good for the second of a trilogy. Looking forward to the conclusion.
25. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Bookclub read. Engaging and moving. Definitely glad that I read it and would recommend it.
26. The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Made it to my goal plus ... I finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which was extremely engaging and incredibly moving. I also whipped through The Partly Cloudy Patriot yesterday. Now I'm on to Remnant Population, and trying to get back into Misfortune which I only made it about halfway through before losing ... LOL...so I went out at lunchtime intending to buy Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which is my book club's selection for October. And I did buy it...but also picked up a couple of other items that were NOT on the approved list ;) that would be The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell ... ... find a copy of the third one soon.
I didn't start a new book this morning because I plan to go out at lunchtime and buy Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which is this month's selection for my book club. I have very little time to read lately so I figure I had better get started on it asap. ... ... books I've ever read and will be recommending it to all. It's strange, because I want to read Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but at the same time, I don't want to just yet because I'm afraid nothing else he writes can match the magic he generated with his ... ... and her characters are simultaneously magical and real, making this a thoroughly stimulating and enjoyable read.
#24 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (August). Although I have not read Foer’s Everything is Illuminated, I have seen the film and can say that ... Popular books I didn't like: Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, I Am the Messenger, Lovely Bones, most of John Grisham's books, and most of James Patterson's books. Oh, and I can't believe I almost forgot to mention it-- I hated (hated) Middlesex ... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer because it's about 9/11.
Silence in October by Jens Christian Grohndal because it mentions an autumn month in its title.
Adjusting Sights by Haim Sabato because it's about the Yom Kippur war in Israel which took ... ... down my face).
Jonathan Safran Foer has made me cry, even at the funny parts-- like when I realized the kid in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was probably OCD or had Asperger's. It was brilliant, hilarious, revealing, and very, very sad all at the same time.
I find weeping ( ... ... planned on writing at least another book to follow. I will defiantly watch to see if Barnes does.
Still reading:
Loud and Incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer - just about finished
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - a reread for me, but I am reading the 2006 Cambridge ... 1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
4. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
5. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... reading Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker. I have about a quarter of it left. Then I am going to read Extremely Loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer for a book club. Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Midwife's Tale, by Gretchen Moran Laskas
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion ... power of love.)
As to which book to start with... I'll have to think on that and get back to you.
I also read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close last week and was thinking of this thread as I read it. One of the more touching books I've read recently.
There's also Garcia Marque ... ... continues to interfere with my reading. I think if I get busy over the summer though I might be able to meet my goal.
1) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close~Jonathan Safran Foer
2) Eragon~Christopher Paolini (Reread)
3) Cart and Cwidder~Diana Wynne Jones
4) Child of the Da ... ... of the Aggregates”), 7 (“Examination of the Conditioned”), 8 (“Examination of the Agent and Action”). Please note that the Garfield commentary is extremely helpful, but one should aim eventually at finding one’s own way through the argument.
Week Eight
1. Nagarjun ... ... is...
Arthur and George, Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Out Stealing Hor ... 28. Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss (NF)
29. Don't Tell Mummy by Toni Maguire (NF)
30. Extremely Loud Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (F)
Reviews for each at http://theliteraryword.blogspot.com/ ... Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
March
Some Things That Stay by Sarah Willis
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare by Paul A. Colinvaux
Rena's Promise ... From Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives ... ... the issue is whether or not they are informed, examined and articulated. Truly a very welcoming and clear introduction.
Historic Fort Sam Houston (2004 ed.) – Because we were going to visit and tour there.
Mary Logue Bone Harvest (2005) – Book Club. I don’t read mysteries other ... ... this book, so I think I worked myself up for something really spectacular. It wasn’t. But, a good read anyway.
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I bought this book for the author without reading the synopsis. When I got home and realized it was about ... ... div>
I only found time to complete Terry Pratchett's Thud! this week - must be sleeping better Oh, and just completed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer a ,multi-threaded and well-written story that none the less felt incomplete..
... the universal and make it particular, but I still think that Jonathan Safran Foer was WAY more successful at this in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
And then, it completely fell apart at the end. To the extent his irony worked at all during the bulk of the book, it failed utterly ... ... from Anthony Trollope's Travel Writings which combine's my love of travel writing with my love of Trollope.
2) Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Foer. I recently saw the movie Everything is Illuminated and loved it so am expecting ... F-H
The Geographer's Library
Human Traces
The Big Over Easy
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
In the Shadow of the Tamarind Tree by Matthew S Friedman
Anansi Boys
Veronica
Friendly Fire
A Window in Copacabana
Pontius Pilate by Miro Gavran
Blindsight
Sweet ... I just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (extremely heartbreaking and incredibly beautiful) and The End of The Affair by Graham Green. I've already started reading This Side of Paradise by
F. Scott Fitzgerald and The History of Love by Nicol ... I tried Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and just couldn't get through it. I plan to try it at some point in book form, since perhaps the visuals will help. I listened to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close several months ago, and thought it was great. I've heard about the visuals later, but I didn't think I was missing anything while I listened to it. I still haven't actually flipped through a physical copy, but I remember the narrator saying "black ... The only one of those that I've read in any format is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and I'd be curious to know how it translates into audiobook format, since there's a lot in that book that relies on the visual medium. Just for fun, am re"reading" Crocodile on the Sandbank. Picked up Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and The Rule of Four at the library the other day. Any opinions on which of those I should listen to next? Finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close yesterday, and am sneaking in Firoozeh Dumas' Funny in Farsi before continuing with In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee.
I haven't picked out what will be next yet, but my TBR shelves are groaning, and I certainly wouldn't lack ... ... has now officially joined my "Unfinished" list (not to be confused with my "Half-Read" pile!)
Currently I am reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and rereading In the Heart of the Country again by J.M. Coetzee
... Foul, gray and dark.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - finshed yesterday. excellent, loved the ending, esp. the last page.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - haven't started yet.
You? ... Everything is Illuminated, although it's been a few years and the details are fuzzy for me. I listened to Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a couple of months ago--another good effort, in my opinion. Just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close yesterday. I liked it, but not nearly as much as I liked Everything is Illuminated, although I can't put my finger on why.
I'd be interested in what you think, and if you can help me identify the difference! Started A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith today. When I'm finished with that, I plan on reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and I should be done with it by the five year anniversary of 9/11. Jonesy, keep going with Everything is Illuminated! It's ... Started A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith today. When I'm finished with that, I plan on reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and I should be done with it by the five year anniversary of 9/11. Foer does take some getting used to, but he's super ... ... talk to people you don't know can do that. Someone recommended Everything Is Illuminated very, very highly. I'd read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close but was put off by the experimental techniques. I decided to give Foer another chance since the story of Extremely Loud was interesting. ... ... of Wicked this morning (not nearly as good as I remembered from the first time around, actually), planning on starting Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close later today. I'm also listening to the Song of the Lioness quartet (currently on In the Hand of the Goddess) by Tamora Pierce, which ...
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