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crOwl
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shardik
watership down
by richard adams
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crOwl
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pearl by mary gordon
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unhinged
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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
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flux
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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.
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jane
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nausea by jean paul sartre
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071216
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jane
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cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut, jr.
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cocoon
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the master & margarita by mikhail bulgakov
really really enjoyed it.
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080605
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Isaou
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-Stephen Chbosky
Beautiful.
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080605
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Isaou
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As an after thought:
The Into the Wilderness series
-Sara Donati
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franco
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the alchemist by Paulo Coelho
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past
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i second frank herbert's dune books
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080606
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Arwyn
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white oleander
by
Janet Fitch
it's just... amazing
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080607
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no reason
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"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)
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raze
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"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.
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epitome of incomprehensibility
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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)
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dhalgren, by samuel r. delaney
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raze
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("dhalgren" is one i've been meaning to pick up for a while now..,)
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do. it is beautiful and awful. i can't recommend it enough.
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unhinged
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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
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unhinged
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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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ovenbird
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All the work of Elizabeth Strout. I admit that I haven't read every book yet, but I've now read four of them: Olive Kitteridge, My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything Is Possible, and Oh William!
Strout is that rare kind of writer that seems to possess emotional x-ray vision. She pulls apart the most mundane of human experiences and brings their broken complexity to light. She will quietly gut you. Her words are unassuming, little gopher holes of meaning that turn out to be thousands of feet deep. Step in one and you’ll break your leg for sure and you won’t even be sad about it. You’ll go on to do it again while your femur is still snapped in two. I intend to read every word this woman has written. I don’t do that often. But Strout is one of the wisest witnesses writing today, and she is worth a deep dive.
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