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Closed
This journal will no longer be updated.
All public posts shall remain public.
Existing friends will not be added back...
... because I intend to delete this again
once all affairs are put in order.
Thank you.
Good bye. -
The Five People You Meet In Heaven, C-
Title: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: some-kind-of-fiction
Pages: 196
Rating: C-
Notes: A lot of people have given this book a lot of praise. A lot of people are idiots. Clichéd; no evident style. Solid otherwise: it's not bad writing, just very unimpressive. I do like the boardwalk carnival ( Read more... ) -
Oh, but he's The One...
Jacek Yerka gives meaning to my life. -
The Bitch Posse, B+
Title: The Bitch Posse
Author: Martha O'Connor
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: anti-chick lit
Pages: 339
Rating: B+
Notes: It's a happy medium between syrupy sweet Mother Night by Rachel Pollack and the unreal melodrama of She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. She can certainly keep a reader in suspense and I appreciate the complexity of her characters ( ( Read more... ) -
Baz Luhrman: "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)"
Heard this song on the radio a few times lately, and am greatly amused and in love with it ( Read more... ) -
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Virginia Woolf's Orlando is sooo boring. -
The Alchemist, B
Title: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: fable
Pages: 173
Rating: B-
Notes: READ SLOWLY. Hemmingway-esque in voice. Not particularly original, enough to finish reading. -
Jocasta
"Jocasta", Ruth F. Eisenberg ( Read more... )
