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nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:21:45 -0400

The Star-Crossed Lovers (AKA Prety Girl)

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

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nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:07:44 -0400

15:15 @MsRedPen I have the opposite problem. We never take enough pictures. #
17:37 Just finished eating tofu stir fry. It was yummy! Now I'm curling up with a good book. #

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:52:20 -0400

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Kim Edwards

I'm probably the only person on the planet who hasn't read this book yet, but in case you haven't... It is about a doctor who is delivering his own children due to a snowstorm and realizes that the second twin has Down Syndrome. He has his nurse take her away to an institution and tells his wife that she died. The nurse can't leave her at the institution, and the rest of the book is about how this lie changes the relationships of the family. By the way, none of that was a spoiler. That much is printed on the back of the book.

I felt that the story was moving, and I wanted to read it when I was not reading it.

#16 in 2008

If anyone is interested, I'm actually updating my Shelfari page these days so you can add me as a friend if you want. It is great for keeping track of books I see in the library that I want to read without having a million scraps of paper in my pockets all the time.

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nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:06:33 -0400

18:07 @crom74 We are open 'til 9 tonight! Way too long. #

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Cross your fingers and toes!

nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:26:14 -0400

Ambitions

Dan had a job interview today for an adjunct teaching job at a community college in the area. He thinks it went really well. Think good thoughts for him as I would love to live in the same state as my husband one of these days!

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nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:08:03 -0400

15:42 The E3 announcement I was hoping for has happened! Netflix on Xbox 360!! #

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nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:09:56 -0400

15:42 It's hipster day at the liberry. Lots of requests for Kerouac, Vonnegut, and Burroughs. #

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The Monsters of Templeton

nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:36:08 -0400

The Monsters of Templeton

Lauren Groff

I spent Sunday and Monday in the Outer Banks with my parents, and due to jellyfish and storms, I spent most of the time sitting on my butt reading. It was great!

What made the time even more pleasant was this whimsical debut novel from Lauren Groff. The Monsters of Templeton is about Willie's return to her hometown after a fling with her Ph.D. advisor went awry. She soon finds out that her father is a resident of Templeton who she has known all her life. The book chronicles her search for the identity of her father.

The story goes back and forth between a first person account of the main character's search and stories of her ancestors from their points of view. There are also some journal entries and letters that are used to tell the story. One chapter that consisted of two women's letters back and forth to each other was probably my favorite part of the book. I found her writing style and the unique structure of this story to be engrossing. The characters Groff created are complex and - for the most part - likable. I'm also partial to stories written about small town life so this definitely fit the bill.

I highly recommend this book to anyone, and I will be singing its praises to all of my friends as well!

#15 of 2008

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Thanks NPR

nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:08:19 -0400

Thanks to NPR, I found a new musician to love. Ben Sollee and his album Learning to Bend were featured on All Things Considered. I heard it on the way to the Outer Banks on Saturday afternoon and bought the album as soon as I got back home today.

I love this song. On the air, he said that he wrote it as a response to his grandparents both suffering from dementia. He decided to write a song about what it would be like if God forgot everything he had created.

Panning for Gold

Ben Sollee

I also like his remake of the song below.

A Change is Gonna Come

Ben Sollee

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Further Tales of the City

nobody@vox.com(Bookishly Fabulous) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:31:41 -0400

Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 3)

Armistead Maupin

This series just keeps getting better and better. Now they are in the eighties so he talks about Walkmans and whatnot. Lucky for me, Maupin is a Southern author so I could read one of these and count it in the "Southern Writers" category for ASRP.

In this novel, one of the characters gets involved in the Jonestown Massacre, which made for a really good story. I found this one to be pretty suspenseful in addition to being hilarious like the other two so far.

#14 of 2008

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