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"Squeeze Me" by Carl Hiaasen.

Thanks to Moog for the heads up post a few weeks ago that it was out. It's pretty funny so far :lol:
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lime rickie wrote: October 7, 2020 6:30 pm Our library finally just re-opened and I need to get over there. They were doing order online and pick up outside but it's just not the same as browsing the stacks.
Yea. I go to three libraries and so far only 2 reopened to browsing. But I have at least 300 books in my library upstairs.
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Dante‘S Paradise. Lite reading after Faulkner. :lol:
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Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Hunter Thompson
Stephen King Dreamcatcher
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We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them."

Gardner McKay
Toyer

Haruki Murakami
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Men Without Women

David Quammen
The Tangled Tree
*Spillover

Bruce Cockburn
Rumours Of Glory

James Welch
Fool’s Crow

Joan Didion
We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live

Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March

Tom Hanks
Uncommon Type

Jay Winik
1944
April, 1865
*The Great Upheaval

Steven Brill
America’s Bitter Pill

Somerset Maugham
Points of View
The Gentleman In The Parlor
On A Chinese Screen
A Traveler In Romance

The quote at the top is from Warren Zevon, a voracious reader of a massive personal book collection. This is my current list of "to be read" with an asterisk by the ones I've already started. The last book on the list in bold by Maugham is a book I purchased from Crystal Zevon, Warren's widow. She has been slowly selling Warren's library for charity. An amazingly diverse collection and I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a book from his collection by one of my favorite writers. I'm hoping I've purchased the time to read all of them, but life has no guarantees.
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The Hanks book was good.
I have that Bellow book but read Herzog.
Also have that Didion book.
Men Without Women was a good collection I read.
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The label on my hand sanitizer. By the manufacturer.
Canterbury Tales Chaucer.
Energy a Human History. By Richard Rhodes.
Squeeze Me Hiasson
Alex Trebeck auto biography.
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown (haven't found the parallel Recipe for a Perfect Husband) :).
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Spicoli wrote: November 6, 2020 3:18 pm This is my current list of "to be read" with an asterisk by the ones I've already started.
Kudos on that. I've never been able to read more than one book at the same time.
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"Kudos on that. I've never been able to read more than one book at the same time."

It helps to not double up on genres. more than one fiction can be difficult. Otherwise it's a bit of reverting back to college and reading for multiple classes. Something scientific, something historical, and some fiction aren't too bad, but more than one of any type can be confusing sometimes.
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The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester
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FLnativ wrote: October 8, 2020 11:01 am "Squeeze Me" by Carl Hiaasen.

Thanks to Moog for the heads up post a few weeks ago that it was out. It's pretty funny so far :lol:
I was happy to see Skink make an appearance. Was like seeing a long lost friend.
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:)
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The Ranger by Ace Atkins
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"The River is Home" by Patrick D. Smith
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A 900 page biography on Sylvia Plath
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See You Later Alligator by William F. Buckley, Jr.
what I really mean . . . I wish you were here
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The Man Who Came To Dinner play.
Peanuts comic strip 1950 thru 1952. I have almost all the strips up to mid 70s.
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