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weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
My Side of the Mountain John and Jean George
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
Damon runyon short stories
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Just starting "A Patchwork Planet" by Anne Tyler...
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Re: Just starting "A Patchwork Planet" by Anne Tyler...
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
Tyler may be my favorite living author. I think Planet is the first book she completed after the death of her husband. The bit I like about her books (contrary to the devotion to plot and action in Stephen King, Trevan…
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
MUST get Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
Voltaire Candide
Be Here Now Baba Ram Dass
Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
My Side of the Mountain John and Jean George (appropriate for a desert island)
the Bible
The Baseball Encyclopedia
The Iliad and the Odyssey Homer…
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
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Dharma Bums is genius. MUST READ. Reminds me of another....Total Loss Farm by Ray Mungo. Mungo talks about "missing the boat." After reading Dharma Bums, I knew I was on the boat.
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
Your description of chips and missing Physics reminds me of the only book I have ever read that I literally could not put down. It must have been on a weekend while in high school. I picked up Nigger by Dick Gregory (p…
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
I have read aloud to my now ten year old daughter everything I can get my hands on. I began with Goodnight Moon before she was six months old and continue with Harry Potter. And the best, bar none, is Frog and Toad. I…
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
Songlines by Chatwin. Maybe not officially a travel book. And I would say that Chatwin is considered a travel writer. Anyway, this one is fascinating. There is a tone of pomposity or self-importance in his writing th…
weed-em-n-reap
21 yrs ago
Asher Lev I read while in high school and was fascinated by this entry into the world Potok created. And recently read The Chosen. I should say, the world Potok recorded upon observing Hasidic Jews. Being raised as a …