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Currently I am:

re-reading 'Along for the Ride' by Sarah Dessen
reading 'The Naughty List' by Suzanne Young
and reading 'Northanger Abby' by Jane Austen (my book I read at school in quiet moments at the beginning and end of class)
 

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Just finished a book whose title and author I cannot even remember, and I cared so little about it that I'm not even inclined to go get the book so I can write it down. Urban fantasy, though, and one in a series.

I'm still tooling away on L.A. Confidential, but it's going on the backburner as soon as my copies of Asimov's original Foundation trilogy gets to my door. After that, I think I'm going to see if I can get a copy of The Foundations of Psychohistory by Lloyd deMause.

ETA: I tossed the Foundation trilogy out of my cart in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth, and I feel sorta guilty about it. It's still on my TBR pile, tho.
 
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I'm reading the manga series Death Note. My middle schooler begged me to read the first book and I got hooked. The story threads are still tighter than banjo strings halfway through book 4. It's a great lesson in storytelling.

I like to read manga when I'm editing, because it's so different from my writing. I picked these up from the library b/c of your recommendation. Not bad so far--I'm just starting Book 2. Makes more sense at first than Hellsing (which I ended up enjoying) and not as :Wha: as Demon Diary.
 

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Recently finished Cherie Priest's "Boneshaker" (review on my blog). Now on to James Knapp's "State of Decay."

Found the former book slow and tedious, but the latter is much brisker and action-packed. Very creepy social connotations, too--the dead are reanimated to serve as soldiers and slaves...
 

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All Together Dead, by Charlaine Harris
 

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still in a happy reading place...almost finished with Lolita...WOW
 

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The Self: Ontological Security and Existential Anxiety - A. Giddens



....and waiting for me is Fetch by Robert Holdstock


one day, I'll see my books again....



... one day ....
 

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Finished The Quiet American and started Hampton Sides' Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier
 

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Just finished Undead and Unworthy, MaryJanice Davidson. Entertaining as usual. On to David Ignatius's Body of Lies for some nice espionage.
 

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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerland

Oh the writing - it flows so smoothly.

If you own a copy, turn to page 32 and read the paragraph where Nick describes Gatsby's smile. Now that's good writing.
 

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The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
 

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I just started reading Traitor's Moon, the third book in the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling.
 

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Philip Roth's "The Dying Animal"
 

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I just started reading The lies of locke Lamora on a recommendation from a friend.
 

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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerland

Oh the writing - it flows so smoothly.

If you own a copy, turn to page 32 and read the paragraph where Nick describes Gatsby's smile. Now that's good writing.

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I'm reading a biography of Mao. Fun times...
 

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I'm reading God is Dead by Ron Currie Jr. and I'm absolutely loving it.
 

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Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and so far it's been just what the doctor ordered. (I've been reading books by AWers, as of late.)