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| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEB. 2008 PART Two | | 56 | bettyjo, februar 29 | |
| I dvale: Book talk : Perfectly respectable happy books | | 31 | Marchpane, december 2007 | |
| I dvale: Book talk : Poodles in literature | | 13 | tomcatMurr, oktober 2007 | |
| I dvale: Oregonians : Favorite Oregon author? | | 24 | wyrdchao, oktober 2007 | |
| I dvale: Oregonians : Best Oregon Books According to Portland Magazine | | 1 | ggchickapee, maj 2007 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - March. 2008 | | 273 | Talbin, april 2 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 5 | | 305 | krisa, marts 18 |
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Just finished Divisadero myself. Eagerly awaiting The River Why from my Amazon book order. Hope it comes in time for the weekend. A mooching friend (hmmm, that doesn't sound right...) sent me The River Why by David James Duncan (one of my alltime favs on my list to re-read but my copy has disappeared) and What's Eating Gilbert Grape -- which: movie I loved and hope book is as good. I cannot construct a sentence to ... Ok, too obscure, sorry. It's from The River Why by David James Duncan, a remarkable novelist and essayist who should be much better known! A trip to the library yielded:
At Mrs. Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
The River Why by David James Duncan (20th anniversary edition!)
The Accidental Buddhist by Dinty Moore
Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber
New Mercies by Sandr ... #11 The River Why by David James Duncan (February). When I was a young college student, books of this sort were often stuck in the back pockets of our jeans, read and reread, shared and passed on to friends. Paperbacks where smaller in those days, so they fit our pockets, and the books we ... How by Dov Seidman
Where's Waldo? by Martin Handford
Why? by Catherine Ripley
When I Relax I Feel Guilty by Tim Hansel
What Is the What by Dave Eggers ... around here. Each of them is satisfyingly unsentimental, intelligent, and often funny.
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
The River Why by David James Duncan
One of the Casualties by Weldon Hill
(edited to add the Weldon Hill book). Just noticed that all three books have young men as ... The River Why by David James Duncan has a wonderful and wise poodle named Descartes. ... a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
2. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
3. Winter Count by Barry Lopez
4. The River Why by David Duncan
5. Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook’s Lowbrow Northwest by Stewart Hall Holbrook
6. The Country Boy by Hom ... The River Why was my first introduction to DJD, I read it probably 20 years ago; it's on my Top Twenty list. I was just thinking I'd like to give it another read. And River Teeth is on my "reading now" shelf, I pick it up every couple days and read a story or essay. I had to put that down ... Actually when we were doing it, I was thinking of The River Why and how he meets his love while she is in a tree, fishing.
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