Lori's comments
(member since Dec 03, 2008)
Lori's comments from the The Rory Gilmore Book Club group.
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Empire Falls by Richard RussoReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Quattrocento by James McKean
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy ParkerOn The Road by Jack Kerouac
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
I studied this book in my American Lit class earlier this fall. And this book caused a huge sensation when it first came out, but then it was forgotten until the 1960s feminism movement.
"They headed off expecting the most glorious reception ever."The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
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I'm reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Both are really good. The Electric Kool-Aid is supposed to balance the melancholy of Sylvia.
Oh wow! This is amazing! I think I might join. I have a friend that I'm tackling a massive reading list with and she might be amenable to joining me.Thank you for sharing and best of luck!
"'Your best girl--the one with the Pekinese dogs.'"(Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, Bryan Burrough)
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I saw the list this person is reading from a while ago and decided to read from it. I think I might have to join in on the challenge. There are a lot of really good books on here!
Dottie, I really like that idea. There are so many on the Rory list that I want to read and I own sooooooo many of them.
DJ, let me know how that one is. I've been wanting to read it for a while.
Seriously, I came up with a list of books that I want to read in the next year from the Rory list and, hey, I already owned all of them. Bonus, right? Wrong! In the past week, I've bought 5 books from Amazon...guess how many were on that list.
I finished Alice in Wonderland last night. I believe I'll read Swann's Way for a while. It might be interrupted by a quick reading of Gone With the Wind, which I promised I'd read with a friend.
I think...because the holiday season is coming up, I'm going to read A Christmas Carol. But it's fairly short compared to his other stuff, so the first big grown up Dickens I'm going to read is...Oliver Twist because apparently I own it. Of course that is highly liable to change when I get into one of those "reading what you already own is for suckers" moods.
I forgot another Christmas classic--Christmas Vacation. So many great lines...
In the meantime, the well-connected father of the troublesome private arranged to have him posted to a naval infantry regiment shipping out to French Guiana.(Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman)
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Coery, I'll be interested to see what you think about Anna K.For anyone who is interested...after I finish The Grapes of Wrath (25 pages left) I'm going to read the Collette biography they mention on the show Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette if anyone is interested in joining me.
Rolling merrily along through The Grapes of Wrath. I will finish soon.
Sooo many holiday movies that I love: White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Harry Potter, Muppets Christmas Carol, and The Holiday.
Thanks! It was a huge weight off my shoulders because it had taken so long to read despite my actually really liking the overall story (the long discussions about religion, agriculture, and politics were not my favorite) and because I decided that I wanted to finish by the end of my birthday. I finished over a week ahead of schedule.Right now I'm going to finish The Grapes of Wrath; I only have 175 pages left, so it shouldn't take very long. It's a really depressing story! I don't think Oklahoma, where I've lived my whole life, has ever really recovered from the Depression.
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