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February 18
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Kim
marked as to-read:
Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories (Hardcover)
by Jim Shepard
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Kim
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by Raymond Carver
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Kim
marked as to-read:
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez
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Kim
marked as to-read:
Pastoralia (Paperback)
by George Saunders
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Kim
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The Best American Science Writing 2007 (Best American Science Writing)
by Gina Kolata, Jesse Cohen
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read in February, 2008
Kim said:
"The science writing portion of this series is always fun. This particular installment included some great stuff, including an invention machine! But it was a bit heavy on cringe-inducing hospital fare--you know, childbirth, aneurysms, and the like. I...more
The science writing portion of this series is always fun. This particular installment included some great stuff, including an invention machine! But it was a bit heavy on cringe-inducing hospital fare--you know, childbirth, aneurysms, and the like. If you aren't as much of a hypochondriac as I am, it probably isn't so bad....less
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Kim
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Twilight (Twilight Series, Book 1)
by Stephenie Meyer
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read in February, 2008
Kim said:
"*spoiler alert--not that there's much to spoil!* So, I allow myself the occasional foray into young adult fiction when something seems to warrant it. And since every female library patron between the ages of 12 and 18 seemed to want to read this (and...more
*spoiler alert--not that there's much to spoil!* So, I allow myself the occasional foray into young adult fiction when something seems to warrant it. And since every female library patron between the ages of 12 and 18 seemed to want to read this (and a co-worker of mine who specializes in these sorts of things kept talking about it), I figured, you know, what the hell? It was kind of brutal. I read all three of the books in the series just to kind of see how it all panned out, since it was, I'll admit, vaguely entertaining. Let me just spell it out for you: Bella, a whiny, boring, clumsy teen, moves to a remote town of Washington for inexplicable reasons. She and a vampire fall in love and all sorts of dangerous and vaguely entertaining things happen. She wants him to turn her into a vampire so that they can *both* be immortal; he doesn't want to. This impasse (along with some obligatory run-ins with werewolves and an annoying love triangle) takes up most of the trilogy. I've never read a book in which things just *happen* around the protagonist; she never gets a piece of the action, because her boyfriend's too much of a dick to turn her into a vampire! Gah. So I guess I don't understand the hoopla....less
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Kim
marked as to-read:
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Marcel Proust
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Kim
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
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read in December, 2007
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Kim
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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read in August, 2007
Kim said:
"I'm not sure I understood *exactly* what Taleb was talking about for much of this book, but I think it did good things to my brain.
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August 01
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Kim
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
by J.K. Rowling
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read in July, 2007
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