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gingergrant
14 yrs ago
Now *that* is an excellent opening sentence.
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First line of your current read
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Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
gingergrant
14 yrs ago
From "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke.
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Great Unread Books: Which classic are you ashamed to admit you have never read? (article and video link included)
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Re: I think you’re too easily aggravated, Ginger :)
gingergrant
15 yrs ago
> OT (about your BX name): Are you really
> Tina Louise, still celebrating Gilligan’s
> wake?
I'm under contract not to reveal my true identity. But I'll tell you, Mary Ann's coconut cream pies were really stor…
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Inspired by oonaroyale's warning - What is the worst book you have read?
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Re: The Baby Jesus Butt Plug
gingergrant
15 yrs ago
Um, I think that was about the funniest thing I ever read. I mean your posting and not the book!
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Inspired by oonaroyale's warning - What is the worst book you have read?
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How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
gingergrant
15 yrs ago
Stream of conciousness novel written in contemporary working-class Scottish dialect--need I say more?
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Great Unread Books: Which classic are you ashamed to admit you have never read? (article and video link included)
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Re: AF may be more accessable than 1984...
gingergrant
15 yrs ago
Thanks for the tip on "Animal Farm", PokPok. I just picked up a copy to finally read it, so I'm glad to know to read up on the Soviets first!
BTW, I loved 1984--the book and the year.
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Great Unread Books: Which classic are you ashamed to admit you have never read? (article and video link included)
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Count me in on Faulkner and Joyce, too
gingergrant
15 yrs ago
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"As I Lay Dying" was the one book I Cliffs-Noted in college--I just couldn't get into it. A few years ago, I decided to finish it, and I must say, my life is not that much more enriched for it.
I started "Portrait of …
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Christmas & Boxing Day: What are you reading?
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The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat...
gingergrant
16 yrs ago
...a BXing book which I've been reading since last week. Nothing like a hard yet touching book about the 1937 Haitian genocide to read over the holidays.
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Did you receive any books for Christmas - if so, what?
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I received two Chicago-related books....
gingergrant
16 yrs ago
1. Chicago Under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News - great photos selected from the online collection of CDN news & sports photos from 1902-1933 held by the Chicago History Museum. I had worked on the …
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5/26 an on, Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge - going strong
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Week 27: Releases #1-3 and Catch #1
gingergrant
16 yrs ago
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I've released these two:
1. When Things Fall Apart:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5175812/releasedone
2. Johnny Got His Gun:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5280078
And this is a release and a catch:
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5/26 an on, Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge - going strong
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Week 23: releases #1-3
gingergrant
16 yrs ago
After being MIA from the challenge for a few months, I've released a few books for this week:
1. improve your mOOd with fOOd:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5198256/releasedone
2. girl, inteRRupted:
http://www…
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Have you an absolute favourite book? One you always return to, year after year?
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rereads & a not so successful reread
gingergrant
16 yrs ago
Here are books I love to reread:
1. Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse--I reread lots of Wodehouse but this is my all-time fav. He has such wonderful turns of phrase!;
2. Catcher in the Rye by Salinger;
3. LOTR & the Hob…
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3/10 and on for the NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER CHALLENGE!!!
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Week 10: releases #1-6 and catches # 1-4
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
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1. Winter’s Tale: Released & Caught
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4920455
2. Long Quiet Highway: Released & Caught
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4920419
3. The Beet Queen: Released & Caught
http://ww…
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2007 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge - Are you Ready?
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Week 9 - Releases #1-2
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
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1. “I” is for Innocent:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4905125/J_7975779
(The thumbnail image from Amazon shows a different cover from the one I’ve released, which shows a hand holding a gun.)
2. Good in Bed:
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2007 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge - Are you Ready?
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Week 8 - Releases #1
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
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Touch Not the Cat:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4462858/J_7931042
Release Challenges
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2007 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge - Are you Ready?
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Week 7 - Releases #1-3
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
I spent some good, solid time in a used bookstore looking for paperbacks that had doors on their covers. And wouldn't you know it, but Amazon didn't have photos of two of my covers here!
1. Carry On, Jeeves:
http://w…
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
..had me heaving sobs towards the end. Count me in as a Little Women Beth Cryer,too.
Some surprise cries:
-The latest Marian Keyes book "Anybody Out There?" had me howling with grief in the beginning (as fabulous as …
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2007 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge - Are you Ready?
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Week 6 - Releases #1-3
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
1. Termination Dust (somehow a murder mystery on the Iditarod trail doesn't seem apropos to Valentine's Day; but, what they hey, it does have a pool of red on its cover):
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3640785/J_…
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2007 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge - Are you Ready?
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Week 5 - Releases #1-2
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
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1. The Witches of Eastwick:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4820616/J_7812721
2. Doubly Dead:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2457243
gingergrant
17 yrs ago
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...here are some of the classics I remember covering (or avoiding) getting my English lit degree in college, in no particular order (I see you have Austen and the Brontes covered):
Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby
Dickens…