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Fiction: To Kill a Mockingbird The Old Man and the Sea Beloved I own Middlesex Non-Fiction: Guns, Germs and Steel

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Homer

Asking Stewart to mod is a change in the right direction. It's brought me back. My biggest gripe about this place was that the fools ruled. Hopefully that's no longer the case. :D

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 4.5/5 Schrodinger's Cat by Robert Anton Wilson 3.5/5 Walden by Henry David Thoreau 4.5/5 Batman: Night Cries Graphic Novel (Doesn't really count as a book read but I'm putting it here anyway.) JPod by Douglas Coupland 2.75/5 The...

Subjective. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is often touted as the best. I enjoy Hills Like White Elephants the most.

Got a few books at a second bookstore. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen Catch-22 by Joseph Heller All in great shape for $30.

Indeed I have many I really want to get to that I've had for a while. There are just as many I want to get to that I haven't bought yet as well. Sometimes others come up, sometimes it's not the right time for that book and it gets pushed back. Some highlights that I want to read that I own...

Cause MJ is the pre-eminant theological scholar of our times. :)

Sure if it's a used book its wear is a badge of its experience. But if it's new and under my care I want to keep it in the best shape possible. I bought a used copy of Michener's Hawaii for a buck with the proceeds going to a local animal aid program. The front cover was held on by a few...

I take very good care of my books. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking care of anything especially when they're something you value so much. I adore my books and I want to continue doing that for a long long time. I carry my books in a case when I go out. I am careful not to...

Look at War and Peace. Many characters. Michener novels. Many characters. Think of all the people you know. Your inner circle and then the casual aquaintences. At first someone who just met you would have trouble remembering everyone you know. As they spend more time with you they would...

Making a trip into Toronto where the book selection is much higher. I plan on picking up an Auster. I've already read Oracle Night and own The New York Trilogies. Which should I pick up?

The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace is due late 2007 or early 2008. I'm waiting for that. I thought they did a beatiful job of Anna Karenina and their work on Dostoevsky's work is excellent. In an article in the New Yorker Richard Pevear did not rate Briggs' translation...

Who is the translator?

That's what I was thinking. Around here if you ask that question people will gripe at having to have read some Canadian classics. Books by Atwood, Davies and Laurence.

Thanks for welcoming me back. :) It would seem that American authors are getting a lot of flack for being "hated classics". Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald specifically. I wonder if there are specific reasons behind that.

The Other Side of the Bridge is not yet out over here either. I guess there's nothing really wrong with it but something about a book that isn't even available yet that is listed for a prize irks me.

I think I know the series of books that we're trying to think of. Cheaply bound mass markets with a liberal use of orange on the jacket. You can still get some books in this edition. I'm guessing there were so many printed that there are still many kicking around. I regularly see Gatsby...

I haven't read any Lawson but I know a few people that read Crow Lake and they greatly enjoyed the book. I can't say much about their reading level or tastes as I really don't know. Being an ON girl she has decent exposure around here.

Oryx and Crake by Atwood.