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[the_walrus2]

soo...new year's was good. a calm, understated sort of evening: dinner w/ austin and then a family-ish party at carolyn's. i decided at about 10:00 that my (slightly delayed...) resolution for 2004 was to not be sober for another new year's eve and i am proud to say that i have, for the first time in my life, managed to keep a new year's

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hi Megan!

[savageaurora]

I know what you mean about suddenly being considered an adult. My grandparents had their 50th wedding anniversary party, and I was thinking I'd relax and hide in a corner with the other cousins, because I'm a kid. Wrong. I served punch, kept food on the tables, had to mingle and meet people and exchange small talk with people I'd never met and would never see again. That equal playing ground is a mixed blessing.

Also, for your list. I'm trying to stay away from AP Eng books.

Catch-22 (Heller).
Prozac Nation (Wurtzel).
Demian (Hesse).
Running With Scissors (Bourroughs). <-haven't read it yet but I've heard it's really good.
Blind Assassin (Atwood). <- very very good.

[freud_chicken]

Jan - Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (because I know you're one of the bums that didn't read it for Book Club)

Feb - The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole

March - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

April - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

May - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

June - Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham

July - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Aug - High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Sept - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Oct - On the Road by Jack Kerouac (I don't remember if you were one of those bums or not)

Nov - Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Dec - any Vonnegut book

there you go

[lemoine]

My vote is for any Margaret Atwood book (I'm reading Oryx and Crake right now), East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Memoirs of a Geisha, or A Confederacy of Dunces (I'm reading that right now too).

[icarus_of_old]

the way the crow flies ann marie macdonald
the piano teacher elfriede jelinek
soul mountain gao xingjian
for colored girls who have considred suicide/when the rainbow is not enuf ntozake shange
again the magic lisa kleypas
anything by peter hoeg
the tin drum gunter grass

enjoy