In the last 4 years I've been reading only I.B. Singer and Chaim Potok. I can't read anything else.
For those reading Potok: can I suggest "The book of lights" and "Davita's Harp" I have no words for these two
cheers
Patrick
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DATE: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:49:18 From: Samerivertwice@aol.com To: bvergara@sfsu.edu, zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Cc:
I've read two Bill Bryson books in the last three weeks -- "A Brief History of Nearly Everything" and "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." Both were excellent with the former was far more educational and the latter being a bit more entertaining. Right now I'm reading Augusten Burroughs's "Running With Scissors." Critics say it's the best memoir since David Eggers's "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." I'm not so sure about that but so far it's been pretty funny. Before Bryson I read Chaim Potok's "The Chosen" for the first time and enjoyed it so much that I bought "My Name is Asher Lev." That's on deck.
Cheers,
Tom
In a message dated 7/29/03 1:43:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bvergara@sfsu.edu writes:
Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What
are you Zornlisters reading?
David Keenan's "England's Hidden Reverse" (on Current 93, Coil and Nurse
With Wound, among others) just arrived the other day and it's on my bedside
table next to a pile of issues of Mike Carey's comic "Lucifer" (probably the
best of the "Sandman" spinoffs, if not sometimes as good).
(I see Keenan also has a book on My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" --
http://www.continuumbooks.com/series_details.cgi?sid=311&ssid=FCU862K3I86CU8
8HE7R01H -- anyone read anything from this series yet?)
Anyone else have any recommendations? I'd rather read something else than
catch up on the last two Harry Potter books...
Later,
Ben
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