LeSamourai
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When you get a few minutes to yourself while chaperoning a bunch of 6th-graders at science camp, reading about the Shire on a bench grown into two redwoods with nothing but river sounds hits the spot.
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When you get a few minutes to yourself while chaperoning a bunch of 6th-graders at science camp, reading about the Shire on a bench grown into two redwoods with nothing but river sounds hits the spot.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Signed copies of Kathleen Hannah memoir available at Barnes & Noble for $30
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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk (Signed Book)|Signed Book
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide...
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kvetcha
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Bought for my wife! Thanks for the heads up!Signed copies of Kathleen Hannah memoir available at Barnes & Noble for $30
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk (Signed Book)|Signed Book
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide...
Thackeraye
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My friend’s book has been published today!
LeSamourai
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I think I've shared about this local guy before, but the "Stephen King must die" sign is new. It's probably a good thing Maine isn't very close to Monterey Bay.
ayayrawn
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The times concluded their top 100 books of the 21st century so far. Bolding the ones I've read. Not sure I agree with the placements of them, but lots of stuff I've planned to read for ages.
1 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein 2012
2 The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010
3 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009
4 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003
5 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001
6 2666 Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer 2008
7 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016
8 Austerlitz W.G. Sebald; translated by Anthea Bell 2001
9 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
10 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004
11 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
12 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005
13 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006
14 Outline Rachel Cusk 2015
15 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017
16 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
17 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015
18 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017
19 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2019
20 Erasure Percival Everett 2001
21 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016
22 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012
23 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro 2001
24 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018
25 Random Family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 2003
26 Atonement Ian McEwan 2002
27 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013
28 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004
29 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000
30 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017
31 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000
32 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004
33 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011
34 Citizen Claudia Rankine 2014
35 Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2006
36 Between the World and Me Ta
37 The Years Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L. Strayer 2018
38 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer 2007
39 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010
40 H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald 2015
41 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021
42 A Brief History of Seven Killings
43 Postwar Tony Judt 2005
44 The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin 2015
45 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015
46 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013
47 A Mercy Toni Morrison 2008
48 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2003
49 The Vegetarian Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith 2016
50 Trust Hernan Diaz 2022
1 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein 2012
2 The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010
3 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009
4 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003
5 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001
6 2666 Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer 2008
7 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016
8 Austerlitz W.G. Sebald; translated by Anthea Bell 2001
9 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
10 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004
11 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
12 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005
13 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006
14 Outline Rachel Cusk 2015
15 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017
16 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
17 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015
18 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017
19 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2019
20 Erasure Percival Everett 2001
21 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016
22 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012
23 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro 2001
24 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018
25 Random Family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 2003
26 Atonement Ian McEwan 2002
27 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013
28 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004
29 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000
30 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017
31 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000
32 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004
33 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011
34 Citizen Claudia Rankine 2014
35 Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2006
36 Between the World and Me Ta
37 The Years Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L. Strayer 2018
38 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer 2007
39 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010
40 H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald 2015
41 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021
42 A Brief History of Seven Killings
43 Postwar Tony Judt 2005
44 The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin 2015
45 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015
46 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013
47 A Mercy Toni Morrison 2008
48 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2003
49 The Vegetarian Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith 2016
50 Trust Hernan Diaz 2022
ayayrawn
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51 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013
52 Train Dreams Denis Johnson 2011
53 Runaway Alice Munro 2004
54 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013
55 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 2006
56 The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 2013
57 Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001
58 Stay True Hua Hsu 2022
59 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002
60 Heavy Kiese Laymon 2018
61 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022
62 10:04 Ben Lerner 2014
63 Veronica Mary Gaitskill 2005
64 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018
65 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004
66 We the Animals Justin Torres 2011
67 Far From the Tree Andrew Solomon 2012
68 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018
69 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010
70 All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones 2006
71 The Copenhagen Trilogy Tove Ditlevsen; translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman 2021
72 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Bela Shayevich 2016
73 The Passage of Power Robert Caro 2012
74 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout 2008
75 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017
76 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022
77 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018
78 Septology Jon Fosse; translated by Damion Searls 2022
79 A Manual for Cleaning Women
80 The Story of the Lost Child Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein 2015
81 Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan 2011
82 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor; translated by Sophie Hughes 2020
83 When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian Nathan West 2021
84 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
85 Pastoralia George Saunders 2000
86 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018
87 Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters 2021
88 The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
89 The Return Hisham Matar 2016
90 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015
91 The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000
92 The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein 2005
93 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel 2014
94 On Beauty Zadie Smith 2005
95 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012
96 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
97 Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward 2013
98 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001
99 How to Be Both Ali Smith 2014
100 Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson 2007
Bull Shannon
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I've read 21 of these, which doesn't feel half bad! Of those, I'd mainly question Trust and the Overstory; I read Trust last year and found it to be an onion: there may be layers, but you peel each back to find more onion. I read Overstory a couple months back and found it similarly melodramatic and single-note; I'm several books' worth of updates behind on the Reading Challenge, but will expound there one day.
jamieanderson1968
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The Da Vinci Code: the Frampton Comes Alive of books
Nee Lewman
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I don’t know, some people seem to like Frampton.
LeSamourai
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In the Weird Al "biopic" there's a part where he makes "Eat It" and then Michael Jackson copies him to make "Beat It." This is basically what happened with Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and Da Vinci Code, where Eco parodied and dissected Brown's novels over a decade before they even existed.
yukbon
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with a bit of background from baignet, leigh and lincoln's "holy blood, holy grail"
ayayrawn
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This website's havin a sale. Any book on the nyt's best of the 21st century list for $5. Free shipping too, with a membership (whoch you can get a free trial of)
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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
The New York Times has just revealed their list of the best books of the 21st century as picked by a panel of literary experts chosen by the New York Times.
ayayrawn
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Update: ended up getting The Copenhagen Trilogy and Pachinko. $15, free shipping. Not bad!
Nee Lewman
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This was a great and fascinating read.
This is my next physical book:
This is my next physical book:
avecigrec
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Read the intro and first chapter of the Questlove book but stopped because I knew there was no way I'd be done before it had to go back to the library. Definitely looking forward to picking up a copy down the road. I absolutely LOVE the cover design.