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Old 08-28-2009, 05:13 PM   #2551
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Giving Gena Showalter a try. Starting Darkest Night. It has mixed reviews, so I'll see for myself.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell. So far, I'm unimpressed. But I've never liked psycho-analysis much.
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Old 08-28-2009, 07:35 PM   #2555
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Old 08-28-2009, 07:41 PM   #2556
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Old 08-28-2009, 09:56 PM   #2558
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Old 08-29-2009, 05:59 AM   #2559
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I'm catching up on a bunch of One-Story shorts. I liked Pigs enough to email kudos to the author. The newest one is Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre.
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Old 08-29-2009, 08:28 AM   #2560
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Old 08-30-2009, 04:04 AM   #2561
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Old 08-31-2009, 05:51 AM   #2562
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Old 08-31-2009, 08:53 PM   #2563
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Buffy Season Eight.
I have read the first two...not too big on graphic novels, but they are pretty good. Makes me miss the show. :-(
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Old 09-02-2009, 04:33 AM   #2564
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Me too, and I wish they'd put out the comics faster.

Reading Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
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Old 09-02-2009, 04:47 AM   #2565
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I found a paperback edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude at a garage sale. Pretty interesting.
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Old 09-02-2009, 06:02 AM   #2566
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I enjoyed "Einstien's Bridge" so much I got the author's (ETA: John Cramer) first novel "Twistor" and am enjoying it, however today I was in the supermarket and saw a brand new memoir:

Dean Koontz A BIG LITTLE LIFE: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

and bought it, a full price $24.95 brand new (kinda smallish) hardback and all. I paged through it, and somehow I find this mundane real life stuff more compelling and fascinating than any "odd" novel a big-name writer could write.

And yeah, his latest novel "Relentless" was also sitting there in the "top 10 sellers" or whatever display. Maybe I'll get that one when I see it for $2.99 or less in a thrift store, and then some months or years later attempt to read it.

I'm a sucker for dogs and memoirs. Though I still long to be had by a cat again.
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Old 09-02-2009, 06:47 AM   #2567
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Old 09-02-2009, 08:26 AM   #2569
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I'm re-reading The Beach by Alex Garland. One of my favourites, I read it a couple of times a year.

I also started reading The Memoirs of Cleopatra which I picked up at a book fair, but I can't get past the first chapter simply because the seven year old Cleopatra and another child speak like adults and it's completely throwing me off.
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