I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Straight, Susan

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Recommended by Wenchie

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

Yan, Mo
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bought for a book club meeting I thought I could finally attend. Alas.

Finished 8/14/2008

Smoke & Mirrors

Gaiman, Neil
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postponed 6/18/2008
finished 10/24/2008

The least enjoyable thing I've read by Neil Gaiman.

In Persuasion Nation

Saunders, George
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Finished 15 June 2008

Outside Lies Magic

(Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places)
Stilgoe, John
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Recommended by Eric
Finished 1 June 2008

So good. I can't wait to loan this out to everyone in my life who is intelligent and curious. Hopefully that's pretty much everyone.

Eat, Pray, Love

Gilbert, Elizabeth
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Borrowed from Shetha
Finished 17 May

I wanted to dislike this book and its author, but it kept a humble, deprecating tone and led through enough real-life, low-level twists that I couldn't stop reading.

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The

Murakami, Haruki
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Finished 27 April 2008

The dream quality and blurred boundaries are well done, but this wasn't at all what I thought it would be-- such an odd subject matter, and while I can handle that no questions are ever answered, there seem to be many threads that are merely dropped. Parts of it I read quite eagerly, and parts were painfully visceral, so overall I guess I enjoyed the read.