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09/29
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Brick Lane: A Novel (Hardcover) by Monica Ali bookshelves: currently-reading |
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09/29
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The Highly Selective Dictionary For The Extraordinarily Literate (Hardcover) by Eugene H. Ehrlich bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Julie said:
"After reading BOWL OF CHERRIES and discovering I have a big black hole in the vocabulary department, I decided I need to bone that business up!
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09/29
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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis (Hardcover) by Kingsley Amis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Julie said:
"This is a dangerous book to read, as it makes me want to drink all the crazy drinks Amis writes of (humorously--but maybe it's an inside joke for drinkers?), and then I'll probably just go to sleep.
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Everybody into the Pool: True Tales (Hardcover) by Beth Lisick bookshelves: to-read |
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recommended to Julie by:
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Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag (Hardcover) by Janusz Bardach bookshelves: to-read |
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recommended to Julie by:
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Brick Lane: A Novel (Hardcover) by Monica Ali bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Highly Selective Dictionary For The Extraordinarily Literate (Hardcover) by Eugene H. Ehrlich bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Julie said:
"After reading BOWL OF CHERRIES and discovering I have a big black hole in the vocabulary department, I decided I need to bone that business up!
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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis (Hardcover) by Kingsley Amis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Julie said:
"This is a dangerous book to read, as it makes me want to drink all the crazy drinks Amis writes of (humorously--but maybe it's an inside joke for drinkers?), and then I'll probably just go to sleep.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover) by Kate Summerscale |
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recommended for: Joan
read in August, 2008
Julie said:
"Loved the first half of this book--true crime in old England, drawn scenically and mysteriously. But then, she goes off into tangential anecdotes that didn't really add much for me. The description of this book indicated it would probe the dark secre...more
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Hardcover) by David Wroblewski bookshelves: to-read |
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Julie's favorite quotes
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
— Henry David Thoreau
— Henry David Thoreau
"Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what."
— Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses: A Novel)
— Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses: A Novel)
Julie's writing
The Indecent Docent (Mystery & Thrillers)
4 chapters
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updated 07/25/2008 09:15PM
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When victims turn up, charred and stretched thin like Alberto Giocometti sculptures, art docent Francis is the prime suspect. It's just that, well, he's our hero, so he couldn't have done it. Right? ... Right?!
Julie's groups (recent posts)
Dystopias and Social Critiques
— 189 members
— last activity 7 days ago, 01:16PM
This is a group for all the fans of Dystopias out there. Share your favorite dystopias, get new recommendations, and talk with other fans about this...more
Book Soup Book Club
— 35 members
— last activity 07/24/2008 02:02PM
For employees, friends, and other associates of Book Soup Bookstore. Located on the infamous Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, Book Soup has...more
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Julie says she likes dystopian literature. Thank you Julie, for the word dystopian! This gives me the title for my next book: Our Amazing Dystopian Universe. I'm giving it this title, Julie, because this universe that we're really in is the very antithesis of the universe we THINK we are in.
I'm with Doria on this one--are you out of your flippin' mind? Howard Roark was a pompous insensitive ass. Who cares if he was brilliant. I loathed him and Ayn Rand's entire self-centered world.
That book is written with the breathless, overblown prose of a romance novel...complete with the requisite rape scene. If everyone were like Roark, the world would be even more unpleasant than it already is!
Why are you such a knee-jerk liberal? That book, although, yes, black-and-white, and written by someone who was possibly bonkers, is inspirational and a model to keep me striving for my best.
How can you like The Fountainhead?!? Say it isn't so!
Julie says she likes dystopian literature. Thank you Julie, for the word dystopian! This gives me the title for my next book: Our Amazing Dystopian Universe. I'm giving it this title, Julie, because this universe that we're really in is the very antithesis of the universe we THINK we are in.
I'm with Doria on this one--are you out of your flippin' mind? Howard Roark was a pompous insensitive ass. Who cares if he was brilliant. I loathed him and Ayn Rand's entire self-centered world.
That book is written with the breathless, overblown prose of a romance novel...complete with the requisite rape scene. If everyone were like Roark, the world would be even more unpleasant than it already is!
Why are you such a knee-jerk liberal? That book, although, yes, black-and-white, and written by someone who was possibly bonkers, is inspirational and a model to keep me striving for my best.
How can you like The Fountainhead?!? Say it isn't so!
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