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gingergrant 14 yrs ago
Now *that* is an excellent opening sentence.


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…

gingergrant 15 yrs ago
Um, I think that was about the funniest thing I ever read. I mean your posting and not the book!

gingergrant 15 yrs ago
Stream of conciousness novel written in contemporary working-class Scottish dialect--need I say more?

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.

gingergrant 15 yrs ago | 2 replies
"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 …



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.

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 …


gingergrant 16 yrs ago | 1 replies
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: …

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…

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…


gingergrant 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
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…

gingergrant 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
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: …

gingergrant 17 yrs ago | 6 replies
Touch Not the Cat: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4462858/J_7931042

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 …

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_…

gingergrant 17 yrs ago | 8 replies
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 | 1 replies
...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…


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