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Book Eight: Beating the Devil by Laney Munroe
Beating the Devil by Laney Munroe, 75 pages
A woman on the brink of suicide after a life made almost unbearable by alcohol turns her life around when she 'beats the devil' at a game of cards. Before that moment alcohol was a dark cloud -- over her childhood, her relationships with men, her ability to keep custody of her children, her ablilty to ( Read more... ) -
Book Seven: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Life of Pi by Yann Martel, 336 pages
The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. ( Read more... ) -
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Michael Moore's letter to Canadians about the election TOMORROW!!! Its quite funny in that Michael Moore kind of way & I know you either love him or hate him, but read anyway:
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Book Six: Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Open House by Elizabeth Berg, 272 pages
Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to ( Read more... ) -
Books!
Everyone!!! Recommend your favourite book! I might take a trip to the library a little later. Or better yet, next week. I'll start writing down your suggestions.
(I know I seem positively obsessed with reading lately, but I am quite proud of myself. I've already read more books in the past month than I have in the past five years. For real.) -
80 Movies Meme
From measi: Heres a list of 178 movies. SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 70, you have no life. Number the ones you've seen. Put your score in header and repost.
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Book 5: Night by Elie Wiesel
Night by Elie Wiesel, 144 pages
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once ( Read more... ) -
Book Four: Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, 144 pages
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from ( Read more... ) -
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Must Love Dogs.
Worst Movie Ever.