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    Non Compos Mentis Anza's Avatar
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    Cool Ummm...

    Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyer. AWESOME BOOK, AWESOME SERIES!!!!
    If it's worth complaining about, it's completely worth doing yourself!

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    "Women in love" by D.H. Lawrence
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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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    La Vita Nuova- Dante
    I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
    Waiting for a winter to be done.
    Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
    In all that I could never overcome?

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    The Rainbow-Dh Lawrence

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    Until the End - Harold Coyle

    The sequel to his Civil War novel Look Away.
    I was SO happy to finally see it somewhere. I read the first book well over a year ago. I can finally see how he decided to finish the story.

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    Cinnamon Peeler-Micheal Ondaatje
    Absence is such a transparent house
    that even being dead I will see you there,
    and if you suffer, Love, I'll die a second time.

    -Pablo Neruda

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    The Yellow Arrow by Viktor Pelevin
    Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
    The Rat by Günter Grass
    Dog Years by Günter Grass
    the luminous grass of the prairie hides
    feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
    porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
    but weighty and unmovable
    As black Dakota hills.
    ~ Riesa

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    The Schopenhauer Cure ~ Irvin D. Yalom
    "Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."

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    Stardust by Neil Gaiman

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    "Rainbow" by D.H. Lawrence
    "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    I bought three books yesterday (well, unless you'd count textbooks too... but bah, they're no fun )- Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Shakespeare's Hamlet and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (God knows if I'll ever finish it, though...).

    Hamlet and Hard Times I needed for my English Lit. course, but since I decided to make good use of the 3 for 2 offer I thought I'd pick up W&P, too. It was a toss up between that and The Count of Monte Cristo, but I know I'll be loaning the latter from the library some time soon anyway if I don't have my own copy and it probably won't take me too long to finish it. Whereas, with War and Peace... I'm not so confident I'll be finishing that one any time soon, so it might be more useful for me to keep my own copy at home, rather than perpetually having to take it out from the library until I can muster up the motivation to actually finish it.

    I love buying books. Too bad I have neither the funds nor the room to make it a regular thing! Still, makes for a nice treat every now and again. And there's always those second hand shops which sometimes house a little gem or two.. though the ones around here seem to be fairly dissapointing (Mills & Boon-esque et al.) Shame.
    I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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    Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
    Just bought it this morning
    I'm the patron saint of the denial,
    With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.

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    JOHN
    by Cynthia Lennon
    Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

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    Just bought the Gita.

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    I just bought Donald Hall: White Apples and the Taste of Stone, Selected Poems 1946-2006.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

    "Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena

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