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11-30-2006, 10:19 PM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,932
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And still active! Woot. I noticed someone else started the exact same thread in The Lounge yesterday.
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12-01-2006, 01:34 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Canuckistan
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,326
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Originally Posted by strangedaze
Schoooool: Wacousta by John Richardson, various Shakespeare plays, some middle english stuff by Langland.
Plee-azure: Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie (swoon).
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I just glanced at the previous pages again, and all I saw was Wacousta. I had to read that for Can Lit. I stopped somewhere within the last ten pages, because I just couldn't take it anymore, so I never did find out how it ends. I bet it includes relatives with exactly the same names and noble savages though.
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12-01-2006, 09:27 AM
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Writer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Wales
Gender: Male
Posts: 7
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i've just started reading war and peace. its one hell of a book already. i'm only in the fifth chaper
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12-02-2006, 10:55 PM
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Writer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Washington D.C.
Gender: Male
Posts: 33
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For school: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
For pleasure: Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
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12-03-2006, 11:00 AM
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#905
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,512
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Just Read
Traplines by Eden Robinson
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Currently Reading
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (school)
everything by Shakespeare (school)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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12-03-2006, 06:37 PM
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Writer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 27
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Started and will finish The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells today.
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12-03-2006, 08:09 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 94
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Reading The House of God by Samuel Shem, crazy crazy book. I recommend it to anyone interested in the field of medicine, or just looking for a trippy read.
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12-04-2006, 11:06 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Laurel, MD
Gender: Private
Posts: 68
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I'm reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I really hate it. I just read the synopsis for Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die...wish I got that one instead...Eh, I can get it later. I do work at a bookstore...30% employee discount!
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12-06-2006, 07:20 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Gender: Female
Posts: 287
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon - not one for an quickie!
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12-06-2006, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Dating Werewolves by Alex Wise, published by Lulu. I find it pretty interesting. Booksie has some excerpts from this book too.
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12-17-2006, 04:55 PM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Middle Earth
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,627
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Just read:
The Gates of Sleep by Mercedes Lackey
Currently Reading:
Phoenix and Ashes also by Mercedes Lackey
Both are different versions of fairy-tales. The Gates of Sleep is based on Sleeping Beauty, and Phoenix and Ashes is based on Cinderella. The next book in the series, which I'll read after I finish this one, is called The Wizard of London and is based on The Snow Queen. There's one more book in the series called The Serpent's Shadow, but I haven't been able to find it in any book stores. I'll probably end up ordering it.
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we are wise wise women, we are giggling girls
we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased
both carry a switchblade in our sleeves
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also in "Somplace To Be Flying" by Charles de Lint
Last edited by VinrAlfakyn : 12-17-2006 at 11:41 PM.
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12-17-2006, 06:04 PM
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#912
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Scribe
Join Date: Nov 2006
Gender: Female
Posts: 87
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I'm mostly into Young Adult fiction (ignores ridicule). I'm trying to get my hands on Terrier by Tamora Pierce right now. I may read Kissing Coffins in the meantime. 
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Random Thought: Rain is one of my favorite things. There's a drought in my area right now. Wow, that sucks.
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12-17-2006, 09:37 PM
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: NJ
Gender: Male
Posts: 14
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Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Earlier this week I read :
Take The Connoli by Sarah Vaughn
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Loaded Dice by John Soares
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12-17-2006, 10:03 PM
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#914
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Scribe
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 56
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The Ersatz Elevator
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Oh, If I could make sense of it all!
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12-17-2006, 11:17 PM
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Addict
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Manitoba
Gender: Male
Posts: 136
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I'm reading some short story collection by Roald Dahl (I think it's called "Tales of the Unexpected").
I'm also re-reading "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" for a school project.
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