What are you reading now?
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Just started Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer.
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Research proposals
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Finished "Juliet, Naked" by British author Nick Hornby, which tickled me because he refers to music hero worship type websites (like this one) often and pokes fun. Also the book title "Juliet, Naked" which refers to his ex-rock star character's stripped down version of his hit album "Juliet" made me wonder if Hornby was thinking of "Let It Be Naked." This is an enjoyable read. Even though a character chucks England and runs off to the U.S.A. thinking it's preferable. Liked this one better than Hornby's novel about an early 60's English actress who emulated Lucille Ball and had a big Brit sit com hit-- that novel surprisingly lacked sparkle and pizazz, and Hornby seemed to have been depressed while writing it. He also wrote "About a Boy" turned into a sort of charming Hugh Grant movie. Am reading "My Judy Garland Life" by Brit writer (and a daughter of painter Lucian Freud) Susie Boyt. It's striking. Glittering pair of red ruby slippers on the book jacket. Boyt thinks it's fine to love and adore a star from afar, thinks it confers benefits to one's personal growth and understanding, and ability to love. More on this later, it's interesting.
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The latest Beatlefan magazine.
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Almost finished reading The Ghost by Danielle Steel & The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner. Almost halfway through Swimming Without A Net by Mary Janice Davidson.
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A dissertation
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Illuminata : A Return To Prayer - Marianne Williamson
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Research on floods in Puerto Rico
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Paper that isn't written that well.
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Accounts of the weekends events
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Stranger In A Strange Land ~ The uncut version Heinlein
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Tom Bromley
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Paper on modeling the east Asian monsoon
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Photography The Definitive Visual History ~ Tom Ang Avedon is on the cover, one of my favs!
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"A Man in Profile" about famous New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, who hails from the swamplands of southeastern N.C., like me. I'd found it miraculous he went from there, to the most prestigious literary magazine in the U.S., The New Yorker. This biography explains how, and why. And how extraordinary Mitchell was. This book even insinuates he founded the "new journalism," a literary journalism--that he was the originator. He "seemed to know everything" a colleague of his stated. Especially about botany, literature, buildings, geography and farming, and New York City. Very smart, sweet, wise man.
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A magazine (proofreading the pdf).
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About fodmaps
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The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
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Filipino (language) Bible.
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McCartney by Christopher Sanford