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Saturday, April 5, 2008

In the Andes

Posted by one of us at 6:37 PM
Labels: The Devil's Nose Train. Where it really is. Tiny red spot 1/3 down on the left. I took these from our train where we were sitting outside on the top. Click photo to enlarge.

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Books being read / discussed

  • Pam says "Link to good review about Bolano below"
  • www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/03/26/070326crat_atlarge_zalewski
  • novels of Roberto Bolano--Larry
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)--Ed

New book nominations

  • East is East (T.C. Boyle)
  • The Battle for God (Karen Armstrong)
  • Divisadero (Michael Ondaatje)

Nominations for Book 3

  • Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
  • Honorary Consul -- Graham Greene
  • People of the Book -- Geraldine Brooks
  • The Double Bind -- Chris Bohjalian

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Hey Paula: I quit reading after 10 pgs. How about you? Pam

Nominations for Book 2

  • 1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Zvi)

unusual words in "Little, Big"

  • orgulous
  • minatory
  • arras
  • muzzy
  • discarnate
  • celandine
  • machicolated
  • malapert
  • condign
  • atomies
  • marmoreal
  • infundibular
  • ewer

Reading this now...

  • Audition by Barbara Walters (PMJ --what can I say? I'm a celebrity junkie)
  • American Made: A History of the WPA (lrf)
  • Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (fox)
  • Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog (PMJ and Pam)
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami (Zvi: Thanks, Fox)
  • The Underground City by H.L. Humes (lrf)
  • Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Pam)
  • The Panama Hat Trial by Tom Miller (lrf)
  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (ZV)
  • Pastoralia by George Saunders (Pam)

Nominations for Book 1

  • 7. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (Paula/Pam)
  • 6. Song Yet Sung by James McBride (Camy)
  • 5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Camy)
  • 4. The Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (Camy)
  • 3. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (Zvi)
  • 2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Zvi)
  • 1. Little, Big by John Crowley (LF)

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