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The Wordy Updates: The Book List

Although you’ll probably not believe me given the lack of book list updates around here, I’ve been reading. A lot. As you may have noticed, the writing thing isn’t going so well (I attribute that to a busy work schedule and pretty, pretty dresses that must be perused).
First thing’s first: I’ve gone through [...]

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I’d Name My Dodo “Quaffle”: The Book List

Finally, an update to the book list. It’s been a long time in coming – nearly two months since the last book list entry. I’m unsure if I’ll even list the book I’ve read in the correct order (although, to be fair, I haven’t read that many books since then). I am, [...]

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Books without End, Year of Slow Reading: The Book List

The book list isn’t going particularly well. My reading has slowed down to a veritable crawl and I’m finding it difficult to get motivated. I’ve now added another book to my “Currently Reading” list, the 1989 bestseller The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Last year’s World Without End was the [...]

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Wasted Lives, Ruined Lives, Semi-Recaptured Lives: The Book List

Ah, the book list returns. It’s been a while simply because I read Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, which tore at my soul and consumed my life for about four weeks. It got rave reviews and was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2007, but only sheer force of [...]

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Hans Sprungfeld Knew the Truth: The Book List

When it comes to American history and the Revolutionary War in particular, I greatly prefer the version presented to me by The Simpsons to the one presented to me by boring teachers, K-5 and 8-12. (The years in between were spent in Mexico.) The person of George Washington, for example, goes from chopping [...]

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When the Block Breaks: The Book List

Finally, a book list! Here it is, the fourth month of the year, and I’m only starting to write up a book list for 2008. How shameful and shocking.
We start of the year with a minor commentary on Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story, which I finished yesterday afternoon at my desk (tells you how busy I [...]

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