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Stuff I've Been Reading: My Abandonment

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:42 -0500

Peter Rock's My Abandonment is the first book read in my Book Club by Proxy project. That's the one where I read other people's book club books for them. AmyH told me about this book. I probably wouldn't have bothered except the book was only ...

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Anna Karenina threw herself under a train.

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:40:51 -0500

Did you join a book club because you thought it was the cool thing to do? Now that you've joined, do you have difficulty finding the time to read your club's book selection? Well, you can stop worrying about it. I've decided to offer my readin...

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Stuff I've Been Reading: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:50:44 -0500

The Mystery of Edwin Drood--Charles Dickens Edwin Drood is a young orphan engaged to be married to another young orphan named Rosa Bud (saddled with the unfortunate nickname of "Pussy"). They live in Cloisterham, an ancient English cathedral t...

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Stuff I've Been Reading: A Monthly Column (10/09)

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:34:44 -0500

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies--Jane Austen The problem I had with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isn't the fact that some hack added zombies into a classic; my problem is one of logic and storytelling. According to the book, the zombie uprisin...

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If you look very hard, you might be able to find Huey Lewis.

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:34:13 -0500

As a result of a recent security breach, I have decided to sever ties with my Yahoo e-mail account. A Yahoo e-mail address is a requirement for a Flickr account, so I have decided to shut that down, too. It's not a great loss, though. I never d...

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QotD: Trick or Treat!

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:42 -0400

Will you be giving out candy to trick-or-treaters this year? If so, what goodies can the ghosts and goblins expect to bring home?Blah, blah, blah. I answered this question two years ago. What I wrote back then was much better than what I'd come...

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Leonard Cohen @ the Palace Theatre (10/27/09)

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:40:35 -0400

My parents and I drove up to Columbus on Tuesday to see Leonard Cohen's performance at the Palace Theatre. I still have no idea why we went. My parents know "Suzanne" and "Hallelujah", but little else. My Leonard Cohen fandom peaked in 1998 and...

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Furry books & ugly records

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:26:22 -0400

I got two packages in the mail today. How many packages did you get? I'm not trying to brag here, but two packages is a lot of packages to get in the mail. Usually I don't get any packages. Sometimes I get a stupid mailer from a stupid politi...

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The three-legged dog used to be the rarest of literary animals.

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:24:26 -0400

I'm currently juggling two books. The first is a short story collection by Stephen King called Skeleton Crew. The second is a novel by Joe Pernice called It Feels So Good When I Stop. Late last night I read one of King's stories called "The Man...

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When the little one took the mic, I knew I'd fallen.

nobody@vox.com(M-----l) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:14:39 -0400

Today was so beautiful that I went outside and worked out in my front yard. I did a bunch of walking lunges up and down my driveway and did a lot of sit-ups, too. I'm sure my neighbors will want to be friends with me now that they know I have pe...

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