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2005-12-10 4:05 PM
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult - about a 13 yr old who was conceived via IVF to be her older sister's salvation from Leukemia. She hits her teens and sues to keep her kidney...instead of being forced by her parents to give to sister.  VERY GOOD!

2005-12-10 5:23 PM
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Oh! Also, "Middlesex". It's awesome.
2005-12-10 5:59 PM
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The Chronicles of Narnia.  Just started book 3.  Saw the movie last night. 
2005-12-11 8:01 AM
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Just finished "No Country for Old Men" Cormac McCarthy and "Absolute Friends" John LeCarre. The LeCarre, as ususal, is a real page turner. The McCarthy...well, it is a stunning book, but very brutal and dark. As a Texas girl, though, you might enjoy it.

If you are looking for something fun try Jane Smiley's "Horse Heaven", or Angela Carter's "Nights at the Circus".

2005-12-11 5:38 PM
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Lara - 2005-12-09 4:38 PM

LMAO..  there is now water on my computer screen...



okay, brett and lara, i just put it in my bn.com shopping cart for me and my sister....lara, i gotta trust your instinct on what's funny...thanks

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2005-12-11 5:57 PM
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Into Thin Air - - great non-fiction

2005-12-11 6:56 PM
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P.G. Wodehouse's books are good for a giggle. Jeeves and the antics of Bertie Sooster crack me up!
2005-12-12 8:56 AM
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Also the "Last Lion" books by William Manchester (about Winsotn Churchhill's life) and "Class" by Paul Fussell.

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2005-12-12 9:15 AM
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So what did you get?

2005-12-12 9:20 AM
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crpadiem - 2005-12-11 4:38 PM
Lara - 2005-12-09 4:38 PM

LMAO..  there is now water on my computer screen...

okay, brett and lara, i just put it in my bn.com shopping cart for me and my sister....lara, i gotta trust your instinct on what's funny...thanks n

I haven't actually read the book, I was just noting my favorite of the seven deadly sins.

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2005-12-12 9:23 AM
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Brett - 2005-12-12 6:20 AM

crpadiem - 2005-12-11 4:38 PM
Lara - 2005-12-09 4:38 PM

LMAO.. there is now water on my computer screen...

okay, brett and lara, i just put it in my bn.com shopping cart for me and my sister....lara, i gotta trust your instinct on what's funny...thanks n

I haven't actually read the book, I was just noting my favorite of the seven deadly sins.

bts



i've known lara long enough, tho, to "get" her sense of humor and 9 times out of 10 we laugh at the same things (including xmas trays decorated with mini vodka bottles)....ergo, you got lumped in even tho i don't know you....



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2005-12-12 11:40 AM
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The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (currently reading it because of a post by Renée) - Possibly the best written book I have ever read. Translation by Edith Grossman.

2005-12-12 11:49 AM
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Totall agree. I've read all of his stuf and he literally makes me pee my pants. Well...figuratuvely speaking, literally.  

 

Lara - 2005-12-12 12:18 PM

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I have absolutly lauged my pants off this year reading David Sedaris.. Me Talk Pretty One Day.. Holidays on Ice (excellent for both of us ) and Naked.. If you haven't read Sedaris check him out, you'll LOVE him

L

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Lara - 2005-12-12 12:18 PM

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I have absolutly lauged my pants off this year reading David Sedaris.. Me Talk Pretty One Day.. Holidays on Ice (excellent for both of us ) and Naked.. If you haven't read Sedaris check him out, you'll LOVE him

L



I scared people in airports reading David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day earlier this year. haven't read Naked, but I'm going to get it for my Christmas trip. Dress Your Children in Corduroy and Denim is fantastic, too.

Another funny book in an utterly different way (also quite beautiful): The Dork of Cork--Chet Raymo.


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