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Posted: 02:19PM Nov 16, 2009
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The First to die
Lisa Jackson

I have just started it


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Posted: 06:25PM Nov 16, 2009
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The Joker

They call me Gerrard.
Posted: 06:01PM Nov 20, 2009
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Winnesburg, Ohio
I'm not very far in, but it seems pretty interesting from what I've read about it.


Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem
Posted: 06:50PM Nov 20, 2009
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The world of Goya

Another painter


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Posted: 12:10PM Nov 22, 2009
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Runaways
V.C. Andrews


"You said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed." My Chemical Romance (I'm Not Okay)
Posted: 05:29PM Nov 22, 2009
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The world of Van Gogh

I like art what can I say?


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Posted: 03:52PM Dec 1, 2009
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem
Posted: 04:27AM Dec 2, 2009
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Reading The Infinite by Douglas Clegg
Listening to Land of Echoes by Daniel Hecht on audiobook


When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me". ~ Erma Bombeck ~ Posting in blue in memory of Ram 1968 - 2011.
Posted: 05:47PM Dec 2, 2009
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I am currently reading:
Night World: Volume One
By
L.J. Smith
He also wrote the vampire Diaries.
Posted: 09:42PM Dec 2, 2009
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Out of the Dark
Shela something

I like it so far

and Van Gogh


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Posted: 10:46PM Dec 2, 2009
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I am currently reading...
A book.


I'm running out of Dancing Bananas.
Posted: 06:00AM Dec 10, 2009
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I've only a got a week and two days to try and read two books in (before school ends, yes I know, bad time to decide to read for fun, but hey...) but I'm trying anyways.

I'm currently reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (both great writers). So far it's silly and fun, reads very much like Hitchhiker's Guide. I hope to finish it, if my bloody school work doesn't bug my brains out first.

Then I'll also try a dabble in the The Chocolate War, strongly encouraged (via mallets and painfully sharp needles) by Vinny.

No guarantees I'll finish either. But I'm in for a hell of a ride.


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Posted: 07:23AM Dec 10, 2009
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LogicalRoger wrote:
Then I'll also try a dabble in the The Chocolate War, strongly encouraged (via mallets and painfully sharp needles) by Vinny.


Good man.

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

I just started it, but it's quite informative and rather humorous so I'm enjoying it so far.


"Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do."
Posted: 02:11PM Dec 10, 2009
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LogicalRoger wrote:

I'm currently reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (both great writers). So far it's silly and fun, reads very much like Hitchhiker's Guide. I hope to finish it, if my bloody school work doesn't bug my brains out first.



I love that book. It very well may be my favorite book by either of them, though I do love Mort by Terry Pratchett.

I'm currently reading Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen. I'm in for a book with very little brain power needed. That's probably why I chose this book. And I just finished reading Parade of Shadows (don't know author), and that was pretty good.
Posted: 04:47PM Dec 10, 2009
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dolphingurl12 wrote:
Winnesburg, Ohio
I'm not very far in, but it seems pretty interesting from what I've read about it.


Ay, sweet, it has an afterward (whatever that is) by Dean Koontz.


Does reading what I'm typing count? I am writing a story. I'm like, always writing a story, it seems.


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Posted: 12:03AM Dec 13, 2009
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Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919. Why would Dean Koontz do anything with that?


I'm trying to read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy now, but I'm not liking it much.


Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem
Posted: 07:35AM Dec 15, 2009
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Yay! I was able to finish two books within about a week or so. Excellent. Now I can finish school and write some books of my own.

* Good Omens was fantastic as I had said. I loved how all of the subplots came together at the end; and I love when Aziraphale was possessing everyone. I loved the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley, those two are great fun together. A religious odd couple. I do hope they make a film soon. A good film. It's got marvelous potential.

* The Chocolate War was pretty good, interesting, full of suspense and such. But I hate sad endings. I mean, the thing with the black box, something should have come of that. Bringing it out only piqued the reader, but that was for not. I hate those kind of endings because I'm one who doesn't accept such endings in real life. Oh well. I suppose those are the warnings, life is the real ending.

Throughout I found myself finding similarities to 1984: the main character rebelling against a well established order, the manipulation of the masses, the endings where the rebel is beaten into submission, forced to renounce his rebellion and to give into the engine. Eh. I'll always be a rebel. I plan on possibly watching the film version.

Although I must say I think I'll leave Cormier alone for a while. Too depressing. I don't need that. That's not entirely how real life is fortunately, and if I want to be depressed by mankind all I need to do is overhear a conversation. (haha, just kidding, I love you wacky humans)

LogiRogi signing out of the reader's garden for a bit.


Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Posted: 05:25PM Dec 15, 2009
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dolphingurl12 wrote:
Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919. Why would Dean Koontz do anything with that?


I'm trying to read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy now, but I'm not liking it much.



Winnesburg, Ohio is the book.

Winesburg, Ohio is an actual place.

And I don't know why Dean Koontz would write a new afterword or whatever it was he wrote. Why would Stephen King donate $12,999 for some US soldiers to be able to visit their families for Christmas?

Yes, $12,999. Apparently he thought 13 was an unlucky number; somebody else who worked with him chipped in one dollar to make it even.



Speaking of Stephen King and getting back on topic, I think I'm gonna start reading Under the Dome again.


There's something that's missing if we can't recognize that our own existence is the miracle before our eyes. --Michael Tait
Posted: 12:59AM Dec 16, 2009
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Already starting up my holiday homework D:
Posted: 01:37AM Dec 16, 2009
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alli-palli wrote:
A Streetcar Named Desire
Already starting up my holiday homework D:

Stellaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!


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