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Hip-Hop-a-potamus

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Just started Dennis Lehane's Live By Night. Gangsters and bootlegging and such.

I just finished that a couple weeks ago. Love Lehane, but I didn't love it HALF as much as The Given Day. It's in my top five of ALL TIME.
 

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I've just finished The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton. Loved the book. I guess you'd call it contemporary fiction with romance, humour and some pretty saucy scenes. I fell in love with the 2 MC's. Well worth the read.
 

Chris P

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A Confederacy of Dunces. Any book in New Orleans is a winner in my opinion. I'm enjoying it, and I'm enjoying wanting to punch Ignatius in the face. Kudos to the author for making me hate the main character this much.
 

Alpha Echo

I should be writing.
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Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan. Not sure how I feel about it yet, even though I'm about halfway through. I heard the review on NPR, and it intrigued me enough to give it a shot. It's holding my interest, at least, and slowly building said interest.
 

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Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi. It took me awhile to get into this, but liking it more as I go along. Felt like maybe some things in the MC's world needed a little more explanation. Sequel comes out in January, I think.
 

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Just finished reading The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow. This was my introduction to Bellow, and I have to say I was very impressed. The writing was beautiful, Augie is a brilliant and sympathetic character, and it was a very bookish book, full of allusions and metaphor, which I like.

Anyhow, jumping from one 600-pager to another, I've started reading Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. It seems like a decent story so far.
 

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Not reading all that much at the moment...Golden Volcano on occasion though. I should be getting more books at christmas.
 

luxisufeili

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Blink - Malcolm Gladwell.

Not enjoying it yet. :(