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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith 153 reviews Anne Lamott
Riverhead Hardcover, 2005
Finally Someone I Can Relate To!!!!
+ Anne Lamott Strikes Again + Anne is back
When I read this book, I felt like I could have written every word. Like Anne, I sometimes think that I make Christ drink himself to sleep at night. I wish she was my sister.
Anne writes for us Christians who aren't afraid to say in really expressive terms what we really think and feel about our ...
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Among the Missing (Ballantine Reader's Circle) 22 reviews Dan Chaon
Ballantine Books, 2002
Exceptional, haunting stories
+ Familiar and Expertly Written + Help - someone else is living in my head! + Beautiful Trips Across the Dark Terrain of the Soul
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After the Quake: Stories 40 reviews Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2003
A delightful collection of short stories....highly enjoyable, but without complete closure. (who cares?)
+ If These Stories Were Music.... + Enjoyable but not as good as his novels
I enjoyed this book very much. While reading the stories I was completely engrossed in how they would end. In hindsight, I realize that a lot of the stories did not provide me with true closure, however, I enjoyed them so much that I hardly cared. Deep within each story I found a moral to take ...
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How to Breathe Underwater 37 reviews Julie Orringer
Vintage, 2005
Girls Everywhere Will Enjoy This Book
+ This book will be on my "read again" list....... + So glad it found me! + worth the plunge + Great collection
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If on a winter's night a traveler 133 reviews Italo Calvino
Harvest Books, 1982
Italo Calvino's Masterpiece
+ "I read, therefore it (the world) writes" + If On a Winter's Night a Traveller + Entertaining and Ingenious + Creative and Complex
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The Point: And Other Stories 5 reviews Charles D'Ambrosio
Back Bay Books, 1996
this review was a long time coming...
+ the best + Great book of stories + ıı
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Dry: A Memoir 253 reviews Augusten Burroughs
Picador, 2004
Excellent story telling
+ One of his best + Very nice + Astounding + Every emotion under the martini glass!
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The Knife Thrower: and Other Stories 14 reviews Steven Millhauser
Vintage, 1999
My favorite contemporary writer at his very best
+ Lucid Dreams + Unbelievable: Millhauser is a genius + Beautiful prose + Moving, creepy and exhiliarating at the same time
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The Fountainhead 967 reviews Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Signet, 1996
More traditionally novelistic, tells the backstory of Atlas Shrugged
+ Fountainhead + Why Was This Book Written? + Fairy Tale
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir 821 reviews Augusten Burroughs
Picador, 2003
Wonderful read for good laughs
+ A Childhood Undesired: A Review of Running with Scissors + A humorous romp through an unusual childhood + Liked the Movie Better
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Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor 19 reviews Joseph Campbell
New World Library, 2001
Awesome
+ The one and only Joseph Campbell + An Encyclopedic Knowledge of Mythology
Joseph Campbell puts things in such vivid perspective. It is good to have him helping us with images and metaphors like he does. While readers wouldn't stand for the likes of French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the subject of Myth, Campbell guides the bulk of general readership into the density of ...
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The Lives of Rocks (.) 6 reviews Rick Bass
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Bass just gets better
+ A writer to further explore + In Pace with the Land + Great reading but a little dark
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If on a winter's night a traveler 133 reviews Italo Calvino
Harvest Books, 1982
Italo Calvino's Masterpiece
+ "I read, therefore it (the world) writes" + If On a Winter's Night a Traveller + Entertaining and Ingenious + Creative and Complex
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Dry: A Memoir 253 reviews Augusten Burroughs
Picador, 2004
Excellent story telling
+ One of his best + Very nice + Astounding + Every emotion under the martini glass!
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The Lives of Rocks (.) 6 reviews Rick Bass
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Bass just gets better
+ A writer to further explore + In Pace with the Land + Great reading but a little dark
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The Knife Thrower: and Other Stories 14 reviews Steven Millhauser
Vintage, 1999
My favorite contemporary writer at his very best
+ Lucid Dreams + Unbelievable: Millhauser is a genius + Beautiful prose + Moving, creepy and exhiliarating at the same time
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Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor 19 reviews Joseph Campbell
New World Library, 2001
Awesome
+ The one and only Joseph Campbell + An Encyclopedic Knowledge of Mythology
Joseph Campbell puts things in such vivid perspective. It is good to have him helping us with images and metaphors like he does. While readers wouldn't stand for the likes of French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the subject of Myth, Campbell guides the bulk of general readership into the density of ...
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After the Quake: Stories 40 reviews Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2003
A delightful collection of short stories....highly enjoyable, but without complete closure. (who cares?)
+ If These Stories Were Music.... + Enjoyable but not as good as his novels
I enjoyed this book very much. While reading the stories I was completely engrossed in how they would end. In hindsight, I realize that a lot of the stories did not provide me with true closure, however, I enjoyed them so much that I hardly cared. Deep within each story I found a moral to take ...
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith 153 reviews Anne Lamott
Riverhead Hardcover, 2005
Finally Someone I Can Relate To!!!!
+ Anne Lamott Strikes Again + Anne is back
When I read this book, I felt like I could have written every word. Like Anne, I sometimes think that I make Christ drink himself to sleep at night. I wish she was my sister.
Anne writes for us Christians who aren't afraid to say in really expressive terms what we really think and feel about our ...
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Among the Missing (Ballantine Reader's Circle) 22 reviews Dan Chaon
Ballantine Books, 2002
Exceptional, haunting stories
+ Familiar and Expertly Written + Help - someone else is living in my head! + Beautiful Trips Across the Dark Terrain of the Soul
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