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Have y'all already read and discussed this one? I read it back in March and I simply loved it. My search here is only turning up lists of books. Amazon.com: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows: Books

Has anybody else read Annie Dillard's latest book yet? http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/34011/

... I'm listening to Derek Jacobi read The Daughter of Time. What a delicious experience. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&endeca=1&isbn=1572704667&itm=2

A friend is urging me to read The God Delusion. Has anybody here read it yet? The God Delusion NEWSNIGHT BOOK CLUB Dawkins: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm

I'm reading Aiding and Abetting, by Muriel Spark. It's the weirdest thing, but the book is making me think about the OJ Simpson case. The similarity I see is that nobody wanted to believe that he did it until after it was too late. Here are a couple of links: Aiding and Abetting...

I do know that I read The Hours by Michael Cunningham (and watched the movie), but I don't actually remember reading Mrs. Dalloway. link

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... a few words of peace? Maybe you know a few words which will offer a little comfort to us all and to our small planet? Maybe somethng that you especially love? It couldn't hurt right about now.

Any chance of dragging you back on over into the Lolita thread, MC? I'd really love to hear your opinion of that work of art, and I just know you have it kicking around there someplace. ;) Stewart? What about you? abc?

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Anne Tyler has a new book out: Digging to America

Here is an excerpt from Wayne Dyer's latest book, Inspiration: If you wish to read more, you may google: Being there for Ram Dass Wayne Dyer (My linkie thingie is broken.)

Peder is reading one of the Laurie R. King books (all of which I have read and adored), and I myself just recently spent a fortune on the CD version of Arthur and George. I've read and seen dozens of books and movies featuring the singular sleuth. (PBS's Jeremy Brett was inspired, in my...

I just finished reading A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullen, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. This one may possibly even deserve a reread. In it the great detective is in his ninety-eighth year, and is still managing to get around with the help of his trusty canes. His memory is playing...

Did we sound as if we were getting all ready to start slanging? I don't think there's a single slanger left around here! Mr Moto doesn't appear to me to be a slanger in any way, shape or form (quite the opposite, in fact), and I'm demonstrably not a slanger. Why, I wouldn't be the tiniest...

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I know we already talked about this when Terry Schiavo was in the news, but here (it appears) we go again: Under what circumstances should my doctor be legally allowed to help me die painlessly?

Which are your favorites? Why? How real are his characters to you? :)

Has anybody read this book? Does anybody else think it sounds good?

A couple of you have privately asked me what on earth ACITEOTW means. I'm referring to Simon Winchester's latest, "A Crack in the Edge of the World". It was giving me nightmares. I will read it when I'm feeling braver, but why on earth we humans think that we need a 'horror' genre when...