a_book_you_should_read
crOwl shardik
watership down

by richard adams
060405
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crOwl pearl by mary gordon 060406
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unhinged the tibetan book of living and dying by sogyal rinpoche


the wisdom of forgiveness by the dalai lama and victor chan


all the dune books by frank herbert

a prayer for owen meany by john irving
060407
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flux dandelion_wine
because it reminds me of what it was like when i was a boy of 12 or 13, reading it for the first time, half a life ago.
and provides a cool contrast to the brooklyn winter.
071216
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jane nausea by jean paul sartre 071216
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jane cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut, jr. 071216
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cocoon the master & margarita by mikhail bulgakov

really really enjoyed it.
080605
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Isaou The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-Stephen Chbosky

Beautiful.
080605
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Isaou As an after thought:

The Into the Wilderness series
-Sara Donati
080605
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franco the alchemist by Paulo Coelho 080606
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past i second frank herbert's dune books 080606
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Arwyn white oleander

by
Janet Fitch


it's just... amazing
080607
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no reason "the secret history" by donna tartt

it's one of those books i wish i hadn't read so i could take it in for the first time again
(as nonsensical as that sentence sounds)
080607
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raze "lost cat: an illustrated meditation on love, loss, and what it means to be human"

(by caroline paul; illustrated by wendy macnaughton)

i haven't actually read this book yet; i just now found out about it, after a friend emailed me a link to a review. i think when a review of a book is capable of both making you laugh and leaving you feeling moved, there's a pretty good chance the book itself is something worth picking up. so i'm going to do that.
130409
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epitome of incomprehensibility Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau, at least partly because of the title

and you'll hate me, but Ulysses by James Joyce. Or at least A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

(I think that was four)
130410
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z dhalgren, by samuel r. delaney 130411
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raze ("dhalgren" is one i've been meaning to pick up for a while now..,) 130411
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z do. it is beautiful and awful. i can't recommend it enough. 130417
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unhinged anything by danilo kis


looks like there's been a scholarly push to translate him into english lately. being a central european jew (i think) of the last century his stories are decidedly disturbing and dark but the style is unique and inspiring even in translation
130417
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unhinged a tomb for boris davidovich - danilo kis
the wine of solitude - irene nemirovsky
paranoia - victor martinovich


discovering my heritage one book at a time
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