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Got 2 new books today:
"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green and "Every Day" by David Levithan.
I really liked Levithan's "The Lover's Dictionary"
Anyone has read any of these?

Years ago, I was really fond of Auster's novels. I remember reading "Moon Palace", "The music of chance" and that undisputed masterpiece called "Leviathan" and thinking he was the greatest writer alive. Then, I don't know if it was him...

subtitled Revolutions in Archaeology, by Bruce Trigger. Published by Thames & Hudson of London, 1980.
Yes, an oldie, but hopefully a goodie.
Childe (1892-1957) was one of the great archaeologists, and a very significant Australian...

Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution . . . pretty good, so far. Very interesting person, and one of those critical yet under-appreciated people who did so much behind the scenes, while others got the attention.

I'm presently reading Auschwitz: A New History. Laurence Rees provides a shocking portrait of the world's infamous death camp, with original interviews with survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on record for the first time. Ree's...

A LIGHT IN THE ATTICby Shel SilversteinThere's a light on in the attic.Though the house is dark and shuttered,I can see a flickerin' flutter,And I know what it's about.There's a light on in the attic.I can see it from the outside,And I...

I bought this book for $3.50. I know why it was only $3.50. It's boring.

I just finished reading "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn.
If you like thrillers and weird endings this is a must read. Very hard to put down!

subtitled The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome.

by Leslie A. White.

Originally published in 1959, it has become a 20th century anthropological classic.This is a 2007 re-issue in paperback from Left Coast Press in...

If you've an insomnia, I'll gurantee that you'll sleep just by reading this book. LOL

by Carlos Fuentes. Originally published in Spanish, 1958. His first novel. Published in English translation 1960. This edition by Dalkey Archive published 2004.

Mexico's most celebrated novellist and critic. He has won many awards for...

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

by Anthony Loyd, published 1999, Penguin.

I watched the television news and read the papers as the Bosnian war unfolded, but never ever understood who the good guys were, who was actually at war with whom, what was anyone trying to...

I don't think you can even comprehend how much I love this book! I'm borrowing it from the library but I might have to find a copy and buy it. You should check it out. Please?

subtitled: A Vision, Vocabulary, and Epistemology. By Valeriie Ahl & TFH Allen. Columbia Uni Press, 1996.

As the subtitle might suggest, it is a bit of a wordfest. Their aim to develop a new way of scientifically looking at the world...

by Walter Moore, published 1989.

A belated read by me of a bio that came out almost a quarter of a century ago. Not brilliantly written, but Moore gets the job done. Having said that, he manages competent history (including both oral...

I started reading a sample and was absorbed.

Mortal Instruments.. check it out.

by David Mitchell, an English author.

I have heard quite a bit about this, hence have considered acquiring it for some time. Finally did, at an airport bookshop yesterday. Began it in the departure lounge.

It was shortlisted for a Man...

"There are four kinds of men. Those who have not been born, those who live, those who have died, and those who have neither been born, nor live, nor have died. Those are the stars"

With sentences like this, you can easily imagine that...