50 in 365 Vox 2008-07-06T19:31:41Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398ce76f10002/ Take the challenge! Further Tales of the City tag:vox.com,2008-07-06:asset-6a00c225280b7a8fdb00fad698144f0004 2008-07-06T19:31:41Z 2008-07-06T19:31:41Z Bookishly Fabulous http://fitbookworm.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3)

This series just keeps getting better and better. Now they are in the eighties so he talks about Walkmans and whatnot. Lucky for me, Maupin is a Southern author so I could read one of these and count it in the "Southern Writers" category for AS...

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]]> 'A Patchwork Planet' - Anne Tyler tag:vox.com,2008-07-06:asset-6a00e398d56550000500fa9684f3d20002 2008-07-06T18:32:57Z 2008-07-06T18:32:57Z Book_Junkie http://bookjunkie168.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A Patchwork Planet

This is a nice book - not ground breaking, not life changing, just nice. The main character is Barnaby Gaitlin, a 30 year old man who is divorced, has a tentative relationship with his nine year old daughter (the problem being that he doesn't rea...

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]]> Book 30:Where Have All The Soldiers Gone ? tag:vox.com,2008-07-05:asset-6a00e398cca63c000500fad697c4720004 2008-07-05T18:05:44Z 2008-07-05T18:09:46Z maphead http://maphead.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe

I finished this very readable and informative book on modern European history a few days ago and rather liked it. Covering the last 100 years or so, it traces Europe's evolution from a militaristic culture to today's more pacifist one. Feel free ...

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]]> Book 5: sTORI Telling tag:vox.com,2008-07-05:asset-6a00cd9702243f4cd500fae8c9393b000b 2008-07-05T17:08:53Z 2008-07-05T17:08:53Z Usagi http://usagiinwonderland.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

sTORI Telling

My 5th book, and this one set a record for the year, was sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling. I bought it and finished it yesterday. I have been watching "Tori and Dean: Inn Love" on Oxygen. I don't do reality TV but there is something about them tha...

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]]> Book 11: Eventide tag:vox.com,2008-06-29:asset-6a00ccff855d15985d00fa9683879b0003 2008-06-29T20:44:08Z 2008-07-04T14:36:05Z Felipe Anuel http://felipeanuel.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Eventide

Book Count: 11 Title: Eventide Author: Kent Haruf Back cover synopsis: When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they’d taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them—and for many o...

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]]> Book #3 of 50 tag:vox.com,2008-07-04:asset-6a00f48d046dad000100fad69758190004 2008-07-04T07:46:25Z 2008-07-07T03:54:18Z nearlycivilized http://nearlycivilized.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Girl, Interrupted

Girl Interrupted I have seen the movie dozens of times, and being one of my favourites for a long time, I was curious and eager to read the book that started it all. I absolutely loved it, and the movie will never measure up (but do they ever ex...

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]]> The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals tag:vox.com,2008-07-04:asset-6a00e398c57115000400fad6974d4d0004 2008-07-04T03:41:53Z 2008-07-05T15:53:43Z Referencegirl http://referencegirl620.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan Non-Fiction, History, Nutrition, Anthropology 464 pages Published 2007 Michael Pollan acts as detective, tracking down the exact origins of four different meals. He ...

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]]> 50 in 365: #16 and 17 tag:vox.com,2008-06-17:asset-6a00f48ce00392000300fa967fb5bf0003 2008-06-17T04:40:09Z 2008-07-04T03:48:43Z writebrained http://writebrained.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Black and Blue (Oprah's Book Club)

#16 was a non-memorable vampire book I read on the beach, and I do not wish to remember or preserve it. #17 was "Black and Blue" by Anna Quindlen about a woman from Brooklyn who is married to an Irish cop, who beats her. She gets away. She is r...

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]]> Cell tag:vox.com,2008-07-02:asset-6a00c225280b7a8fdb00fad695fbd30005 2008-07-02T16:51:15Z 2008-07-04T16:14:38Z Bookishly Fabulous http://fitbookworm.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Cell: A Novel

Cell is Stephen King's homage to zombie flicks. He dedicated the book to George Romero. This was very fast-paced and grabbed my interest from the first page. As any King fan will tell you, he has a very readable writing style and kept me inter...

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]]> 27/50. The Septembers of Shiraz. tag:vox.com,2008-07-02:asset-6a00e398c3cd97000300fa96839b2d0002 2008-07-02T04:14:25Z 2008-07-04T03:23:55Z Sara http://sarack.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel

Wow. This was an amazingly brilliant book. I read it in a day, and will be discussing it at my new book club that I've joined, but for now, a few thoughts. Dalia Sofer tells the story of an Iranian Jew in 1981, as the revolutionary guard has sei...

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