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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
I agree that semantics are a sort of useless thing to get worked up about, but, on the other hand, i think that words and terms often characterize and, inevitably, define the way we think about the world. therefore, whi…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
I haven't read that many, but I did like Vikram Seth's From Heaven Lake.
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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Along that same line, terms like "Asian Literature" or "African American Literature" should also be retired.
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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Reading Herschelian's post, I started wondering: how many books do you read a year?
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
I just keep a separate list of which books I've already finished and when (sorted by title, not chronologically). I find it useful to help me make recommendations to other people (that, or looking at my bookshelf, but s…
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Reading recommendations for a cool 13 year old girl?
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
that almost brought a tear to my eye, too.
christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
ahh, the redwall series! i remember staying up until 4 am one night to finish mossflower, even though i had to get up at 7 am the next day to go to school. i just couldn't put it down. i did stop reading after a while…
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Reading recommendations for a cool 13 year old girl?
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Re: Reading recommendations for a cool 13 year old girl?
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
I remember reading a lot of L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, and Madeleine D'Engle (she writes both young adult and adult fiction). In fact, I think I've read almost every single novel by each of these writers (and t…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
i haven't registered that many books, but the ones i *would* give 10 stars to if i had:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unbearable Lightness of …
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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if any of you live in the bay area, palo alto has a great book sale every month! it's sponsored by the friends of the palo alto library, and all proceeds go to the library. paperbacks are 25 cents, hardbacks are 50 cen…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
don't you often find, though, that in non-formal settings, people usually doubt the "complainant"? i mean, there were rumors going around that one of the girls my friends and i knew was claiming that she was sexually as…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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Is the Branaugh version the one with Emma Thompson? I remember watching that when I was young. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I didn't even know it was a Shakespearean play!
Christine
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Which book would you choose to act as the Book Ambassador?
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
Yeah, definitely depends on the friend. I lent Fear of Flying (Erica Jong), How to Make an American Quilt (Whitney Otto), and Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) to this one friend of mine. I thought she could use a little good ol…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
Hey, has anyone read this book? I just started it (about 27 pages in) and think it'd be fun to discuss with someone (or everyone) as I read on.
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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ooo, and i also remember having a crush on gilbert blythe from the anne of green gables series. :)
christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
I also liked Gandalf--I felt like nothing could go wrong if he was there. So dependable!
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
Thanks, I'll check those places out!
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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Does anyone know of any good, cheap used bookstore in Palo Alto or surrounding areas? So far, I haven't found a bookstore that can beat out Half.com's prices (even with the required shipping and handling costs).
Than…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
I really wish I could partake in these questions, but the last two times they were asked, I was still reading the same book that I mentioned a while ago (The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume I). I'm in the last year now,…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
i actually don't read much poetry on my own, but i remember liking t.s. eliot (only read "the wasteland" and "the love song of j. alfred prufrock," though).
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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For me it was Yossarian from Catch-22. It wasn't an obsession at all, really--just a mild crush. I think it was that one description of his back when he's on the beach (right before that plane dips too low and--). I s…
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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so it seems like a lot of people are members of reading groups. what kind of discussions do you have? i've always been curious about these groups--are they like discussion section in college lit classes? how do you fi…
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Books by Caribbean authors, especially women
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
I highly recommend Jamaica Kincaid's _A Small Place_. It's not a novel, but it's a quick and interesting read. Plus, I think it's an important perspective to consider when you travel to another country (it deals with …
crisjenie
21 yrs ago
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Is this book really good? I keep seeing it everywhere, but I haven't heard anything about it. Any opinions?
Thanks,
Christine
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crisjenie
21 yrs ago
My mom feels the same way about reading, but I'm actually quite intrigued by something Kafka once wrote--that literature should shock us, cut us, wake us. It should leave us disturbed and uncomfortable. I think that's …
