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somethingfamiliar
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Aug '03
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5/7 4:32am
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Early Tudor Poetry 1485-1547 by John M. Berdan. Very interesting and free through Google Books.
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PadmeA_Panties
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5/7 4:44am
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Just finished Alan Alda's autobiography: "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed."
Now reading: "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov.
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StarDude
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5/7 10:59am
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Reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. 
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Raven
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5/7 5:41pm
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Rereading the Host by Stephanie Meyer. Good stuff.
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Mazzic
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5/7 11:13pm
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Augusten Burroughs, "A Wolf at the Table."
I'm obsessed with any and all of Burroughs' works.
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faery
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5/8 5:04am
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Sunshine by Robin McKinley.
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Zaz
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Oct '98
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5/8 12:20pm
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I want to get the Farley bio...it's next.
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PadmeA_Panties
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5/8 1:08pm
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Re-going over my past work and working out new ones.
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snap-hiss
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5/8 4:54pm
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Ubik by Philip K. Dick
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EvilFishy
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5/9 6:30am
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I am currently on The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. I've really gotten into the Hercule Poirot series.
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Zaz
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5/10 6:49pm
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That's very early in the series...the first one, if memory serves.
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EvilFishy
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5/10 7:30pm
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Your memory is correct. I think I am going to try to stay in order, despite some previous jumping around. Have you read any/much of the series?
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Drac39
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5/11 6:17pm
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Ink: The Not Just Skin Deep Guide to Getting a Tattoo by Terisa Green PHD
I plan on getting a tattoo in the near future
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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5/13 2:22pm
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Leda and the Swan (1924) - William Butler Yeats
It's odd; Yeats made a falcon spinning in the air an opening into an apocalyptic nightmare. You'd think he could do something interesting with God taking the form of a swan and raping an unfortunate female. You'd be wrong though.
Sailing to Byzantium (1926) - William Butler Yeats
Rather surprised as I opened this one to find the inspiration for a recent film: That, the poem begins, is no country for old men. It's a romantic musing on paradise; laconic and languid.
Lapis Lazuli - William Butler Yeats
So far the only poem I've read that even approaches The Second Coming for sheer brilliance; but where that one was apocalyptic and brutal, this one is quiet and resigned, finding a philosophy of life in a piece of stone; quietness becomes more than a state.
Death in Venice (1912) - Thomas Mann
An aging, incredibly important author (do we have those anymore? did we ever?) goes to Venice and falls instantly and irrevocably in love with a prepubescent boy. It's layered with symbolism, but what sells it is the atmosphere. It's dank, dark, decaying and decrepit and that's just the d's. Outstanding.
Sunday Morning (1912) - Wallace Stevens
I've never been a fan of Stevens; I even find Emperor of Ice Cream, the critical favorite, to be rather overdone. But this one is a masterwork; a woman dawdles over breakfast on Sunday morning, late for church and wondering if she should even go. It's a free association of religious and pagan imagery at war and, even more unsettling, mingling with utter harmony.
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PadmeA_Panties
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5/13 8:57pm
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Finished I, Robot.
Now reading: 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre.
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