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The Blackwater Light... 06/27 Avital is currently reading:
The Blackwater Lightship (Paperback)
by Colm Tóibín
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The World Is Flat: A... 06/17 Avital is currently reading:
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by Thomas L. Friedman
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The Best Poems of th... 05/07 Avital gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost (Hardcover)
by Harold Bloom
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July 09
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July 02
The New Physics and ... Avital is currently reading:
The New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama (Hardcover)
by Zara Houshmand
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Avital Avital said: "*Not complaining exactly but reading the book, I actually study the basics of Quantum theory, Relativism and Cosmology with the Dalai Lama. He introduces brilliant questions, of course. The book is ased on a one-week conference, so while the Buddhism...more "
June 27
The Blackwater Light... Avital is currently reading:
The Blackwater Lightship (Paperback)
by Colm Tóibín
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June 19
58314 New comment on Avital's review of The Elementary Particles
141720 Avital wrote: "Platform has more compassion that The Elementary Particles, but it's just as sharp and inciting. It ...more "

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June 18
164932 New comment on Avital's review of The New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama
141720 Avital wrote: "Thank you. So far, so good. "

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June 17
The World Is Flat: A... Avital is currently reading:
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by Thomas L. Friedman
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Lectures on Literatu... Avital marked as to-read:
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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June 12
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Platform (Paperback)
by Michel Houellebecq
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Avital Avital said: "What an angry man is Michel Houellebecq...
A detached man of critical views and strong sexual needs inherits his murdered father and goes on a trip to Thailand. The writing is provocative, and would be more so if I thought that the author was the na...more
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Avital's writing

You Have Time for This (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated 08/16/2007 04:07PM
description: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories to come out in June 2008, edited by Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka, published by Ooligan Press
Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated 08/15/2007 05:45PM
description: Publisher Comments: ... offers another stirring anthology of mostly unpublished fiction and illustrated stories inspired by the political events of our time. Through a broad range of voices and styles, from both new and established authors, the pieces in this second edition examine the current politics surrounding children, culture, fear, desire, and war, all through the poignant medium of fiction. Contributors include Aimee Bender, Audrey Niffenegger, Jim Shepard, Dave Eggers, Courtney Angela Brkic, and Ben Greenman, among others.
Sex for America Politically Inspired Erotica (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated 08/15/2007 05:44PM
description: A collection edited by Stephen Elliott, due to January 2008 Harper/Collins I'll have great company in it-very good writers.
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated 08/15/2007 05:33PM
description: The book series that defines a generation, the generation born since 1960, defining its unique place in history through its own voices.
The World Is a Kitchen (Travel)
1 chapters   —   updated 08/15/2007 05:25PM
description: Traveling and cooking Through Culture



Avital's groups (recent posts)

233 ¡ POETRY ! — 873 members — last activity 3 hours, 15 min ago
No pretensions: just poetry.

Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to re...more

416 READING AS WRITERS — 341 members — last activity 5 hours, 0 min ago
Those lines that startle you, endings that follow you for days, maybe a style that disturbs you but you can't stop reading. Discuss it all here.
Groups_nophoto-25x33 Notes on the Glass family — 35 members — last activity 8 days ago, 07:29PM
Discussion of Salinger's Glass family.

6371 Goodreads — 49 members — last activity 9 days ago, 10:39AM
In This Group We Are In Goodreads !!!
Groups_nophoto-25x33 Flash Fiction — 73 members — last activity 15 days ago, 01:51AM
Flash is a short-short story characterized by brevity and intensity of the language. It borderlines poetry and some people call it “prose poem.” H...more
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from Daniel
03/28/2008 02:06PM

276352
Get yourself an Author Page from GoodReads, Avital.

from Jeremy
01/23/2008 08:07PM

630905 I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

from Jeremy
01/01/2008 12:39PM

630905 Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.co...

from Jeremy
12/25/2007 02:06AM

630905 Hi Avital!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

from Jeremy
12/21/2007 09:08PM

630905 Thanks for the friendship, Avital!

If you don't mind sharing--I'm curious, what's your favorite novel(if you have one)?

Also, I was wondering if you'd do me the honor of reading about my debut novel, Vacation. Your support would mean a lot to me. If you'd like to do me this honor, feel free to click here:
http://www.hauntedhousedressin...

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous fates, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)

from Poet-I-Am
10/03/2007 10:15AM

226404 Hello Avital--

Thank you for connecting with me here at GoodReads. If you care to showcase some of your writings at Creative Thinkers International, please feel free to do so at http://www.creativeinternation...

Aberjhani

from Daniel
09/19/2007 07:47AM

276352 I see you are reading about quantum mechanics, Avital. I'll send you a link to my new book on that. I've been to Lisbon but never to Brazil. The best of luck to you, Avital.

from Bradley
08/30/2007 06:07AM

45027 Laid back reading a book, always a good time. =)

from Avital
06/26/2007 10:04AM

141720 Hello, hello! I knew you won't stay away for long...

from Susan
06/26/2007 09:44AM

153531 Avital!

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