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[redbobsled]

1. What my girlfriend doesn't know - Sonya Sones
2. Songs without words - Ann Packer
3.  Long Live the Queen - Ellen Emerson White (a re-read)
4. The Nannies - Melody Mayer
5. Ben and the Sudden too-big family - Colby Rodowsky
6. Open Court - Carol Clippinger

7. The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta

[trixi]

1.  Room for Love--Andrea Meyer
2.  Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland--Jan Gross
3.  Betwixt--Tara Bray Smith
4.  Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List--Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

5.  A Bridge to the Stars--Henning Mankell
6.  Finding Daddy--Louise Plummer

[Andrews]

1. Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction - Christopher Janaway
2. Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction - Catherine Belsey
3. Kant: A Very Short Introduction - Roger Scruton
4. The Loudest Sound and Nothing - Clare Wigfall

[foolsgold]

1) 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
2) History of Love - Nicole Kraus
3) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
4) Awake in the Dark - Shira Nayman
5) Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke

6) Flashman and the Redskins - George MacDonald Fraser

[whigsgeek]

1. Invisible Prey, John Sandford
2. Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad, Mike Greenberg

3. Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke

[Rafe]

1. The Fields Of Grief - Giles Blunt
2. Flashman In The Great Game - George Macdonald Fraser
3. I Never Knew That About England - Christopher Winn
4. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
5. Prayers For The Assassin - Robert Ferrigno

6. Love Cuts - John Hegley
7. The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan

[Rafe]

3. Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke

Good, isn't it?

[whigsgeek]

3. Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke

Good, isn't it?

Yeah, for sure. His description of the post-Katrina and -Rita devastation was pretty haunting. I had some trouble believing Molly would make some of the decisions she made at the end of the book (when she and Alafair went to the university library), but it was a typically solid Burke story. It was especially cool reading it now that I know firsthand what New Iberia and the surrounding areas look like.

[Cockney Rebel]

1 • Scott Adams - Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain - Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice

adding
2 • Anna Quindlen - Good Dog. Stay
Short little book recounting a dog's importance to a family. MK made me read it, and I'm glad she did.

[MissKitty]

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6. Love Cuts - John Hegley

As in John Hegley & the Popticians?

How was it?

[Rafe]

As in John Hegley & the Popticians?

How was it?

Yes it's the same John Hegley. I've a couple of his collections of poems, and this one is an old favourite I decided to re-read for the first time in ten years or so. It's typical Hegley; observational, clever and funny.  Here's one of the shorter examples of his work in the book, about the Eric Cantona kung fu incident, called "Fracas":

Eric got aerobic
when the going got too Francophobic:
he didn't have a leg to stand on
but he had someone to land on.

[scurvygirl]

1.  Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis

[Andrews]

what did you think of CLV?

[Dan]

1. David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars

[redbobsled]

1. What my girlfriend doesn't know - Sonya Sones
2. Songs without words - Ann Packer
3.  Long Live the Queen - Ellen Emerson White (a re-read)
4. The Nannies - Melody Mayer
5. Ben and the Sudden too-big family - Colby Rodowsky
6. Open Court - Carol Clippinger
7. The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta

8.  Taken - Edward Bloor