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"Just started book two. Seems Murakami is bent on winning this year's Bad Sex in Fiction award." Nov 13, 2011 12:47am
 
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Aldrin is now friends with Dianne Santiago
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Aldrin voted on a poll in the Filipinos group
APRIL 2012 Group Read.

he voted for Jane Eyre
JANE EYRE
by Charlotte Bronte
Aldrin made a comment on his review of 1984
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"Sayang nga eh. Nakipagharotan sana ako sa ngalan ni Papa George."
Aldrin gave 5 of 5 stars to:
1984 by George Orwell
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Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
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The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
" I read this short dictionary novel in my nook (thanks to Aldrin). Actually I started reading it while on a jeep going to the mall and because of the bad traffic, I already read half of the novel when I came home. Then, just this morning I finished it... "
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Home by Marilynne Robinson
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"So delighted to know you loved it as well. (Thank you for your patronage, by the way. Haha.) Were you also struck, as I was, with the urge to watch al...more"
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
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My husband and I were in the theater several weeks ago, watching the previews and waiting for Puss In Boots to go on when the trailer for a movie called Hugo came on. It piqued our interest because it is a film by Martin Scorsese, one of my hu... "
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Aldrin made a comment in the group FilipinosFilipino Group Shout Outs! topic
"Maliket a agew a inkapanganak mo, Doc Ranee!"
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Jennifer Egan
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

David Mitchell
“Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens, spike topped walls and treble-bolted doors. Gulls alight on whitewashed gables, creaking pagodas and dung-ripe stables; circle over towers and cavernous bells and over hidden squares where urns of urine sit by covered wells, watched by mule-drivers, mules and wolf-snouted dogs, ignored by hunch-backed makers of clogs; gather speed up the stoned-in Nakashima River and fly beneath the arches of its bridges, glimpsed form kitchen doors, watched by farmers walking high, stony ridges. Gulls fly through clouds of steam from laundries' vats; over kites unthreading corpses of cats; over scholars glimpsing truth in fragile patterns; over bath-house adulterers, heartbroken slatterns; fishwives dismembering lobsters and crabs; their husbands gutting mackerel on slabs; woodcutters' sons sharpening axes; candle-makers, rolling waxes; flint-eyed officials milking taxes; etiolated lacquerers; mottle-skinned dyers; imprecise soothsayers; unblinking liars; weavers of mats; cutters of rushes; ink-lipped calligraphers dipping brushes; booksellers ruined by unsold books; ladies-in-waiting; tasters; dressers; filching page-boys; runny-nosed cooks; sunless attic nooks where seamstresses prick calloused fingers; limping malingerers; swineherds; swindlers; lip-chewed debtors rich in excuses; heard-it-all creditors tightening nooses; prisoners haunted by happier lives and ageing rakes by other men's wives; skeletal tutors goaded to fits; firemen-turned-looters when occasion permits; tongue-tied witnesses; purchased judges; mothers-in-law nurturing briars and grudges; apothecaries grinding powders with mortars; palanquins carrying not-yet-wed daughters; silent nuns; nine-year-old whores; the once-were-beautiful gnawed by sores; statues of Jizo anointed with posies; syphilitics sneezing through rotted-off noses; potters; barbers; hawkers of oil; tanners; cutlers; carters of night-soil; gate-keepers; bee-keepers; blacksmiths and drapers; torturers; wet-nurses; perjurers; cut-purses; the newborn; the growing; the strong-willed and pliant; the ailing; the dying; the weak and defiant; over the roof of a painter withdrawn first from the world, then his family, and down into a masterpiece that has, in the end, withdrawn from its creator; and around again, where their flight began, over the balcony of the Room of Last Chrysanthemum, where a puddle from last night's rain is evaporating; a puddle in which Magistrate Shiroyama observes the blurred reflections of gulls wheeling through spokes of sunlight. This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.”
David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Charles Yu
“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?”
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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