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August 12
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by Junot Díaz
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read in August, 2008
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marked as to-read:
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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July 24
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (Paperback)
by Manuel Puig
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Reed said:
"Words are powerful. They can make us forget ourselves (help us escape our world, whether mundane or prison cell), remember our lives, express our emotions, and change not only our thoughts and beliefs but our core. Puig in many respects exposes wor...more
Words are powerful. They can make us forget ourselves (help us escape our world, whether mundane or prison cell), remember our lives, express our emotions, and change not only our thoughts and beliefs but our core. Puig in many respects exposes words for their greatness in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Molina and Valentin, cell mates, share their words and nothing more with us; Puig writes only their dialogue and no exposition or description outside of it, yet in a manner that seems both true, surreal, and very much human....less
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Youth Without Youth (Paperback)
by Mircea Eliade
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read in June, 2008
Reed said:
"Entering into the realm of magical realism Eliade explores a philosophy of time. The narrator struck by lightning is given a "second chance" at life by a return to youth, a rejuvenation. Yet how he spends his life is less dictated by his ...more
Entering into the realm of magical realism Eliade explores a philosophy of time. The narrator struck by lightning is given a "second chance" at life by a return to youth, a rejuvenation. Yet how he spends his life is less dictated by his own learnings from his first go-round and his older self's dispair at never completing his master work than it is by outside forces: nazi scientists that want to examine him, doctors and reporters who track him down, and a fear that he will be discovered.
Eliade explores his philosophy with a poignant, dramatic, bizarre and often humorous text. Only in the end I wondered, is that all? Could he have delved further? Was it necessary to delve further? Was all that occurred a satisfying second chance for the narrator?...less
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July 01
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marked as to-read:
Draining the Sea (Hardcover)
by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
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June 24
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Transmetropolitan Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard (Paperback)
by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
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Reed
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Transmetropolitan Vol. 2: Lust for Life (Paperback)
by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
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Reed
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Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street (Paperback)
by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
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Reed
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The Rings of Saturn (Paperback)
by W.G. Sebald
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read in May, 2008
Reed said:
"I am incredibly attracted to the ideas behind this book...one of being that each place, each item around us possesses a history and story and it is as if the narrator sees each of these and hears these, like he presses a button in a museum near an ob...more
I am incredibly attracted to the ideas behind this book...one of being that each place, each item around us possesses a history and story and it is as if the narrator sees each of these and hears these, like he presses a button in a museum near an object and a story of that object is projected.
However, it was a book where my mood at the time did not fit the read and my attention was often diverted in reading...perhaps I shall go back one day and experience it different/ better....less
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May 03
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Tale of a Certain Orient (Hardcover)
by Hatoum Milton
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read in July, 2006
Reed said:
"faulkner-esque as i recall it. playing with character/ voice/ reader attention.
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