Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Nafisi, Azar

So far makes me really want to read Nabokov.
Started 1/15/2007

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Finished 8 Nov 2007

A very painful read. I never got a grasp on the characters, and there wasn't a tangible narrative. It was brute will that got me through it.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

Leyner, Mark

Loaned to me by Cory Hain. Really odd, with eerie flashes of truly eccentric topics that I thought interested only me.

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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Hofstadter, Douglas R.

Checked this out from the library, renewed quite a few times, finally bought my own. Slowly crawling through this one.

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Carnet De Voyage

Thompson, Craig

Found on our shelves when going through books on New Year's Eve Day.
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Finished 4 January 2007

City of Glass

Coupland, Douglas

checked out from the Library.

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Finished 1 January 2007

Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The

Marukami, Haruki

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recommended by Rick

Love of a Good Woman, The

Munro, Alice

checked out from the Library.

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Finished 18 December 2006