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Buck 65's reading log 08

  • 28-05-2008 04:47PM
    #1
    buck65
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    Claire Keegan - Walk the Blue Fields ****

    William Trevor - Cheating at Canasta ***

    Richard Ford/ various - Granta book of American Short stories ***


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  • #2
    buck65
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    Raymond Carver - All of us (collected poems) *****

    Charles Bukowski - Play the piano like a percussion instrument until the fingers bleed.. (poetry) ****


  • #3
    buck65
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    Raymond Carver - At night the salmon move (poems, signed 1st ed.!) ****


  • #4
    eclectichoney
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    Nice choices. I'm pretty obsessed with Richard Ford and raymond carver :o


  • #5
    buck65
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    have you tried Tobias Wolff?
    bought his new collection at lunch time
    also

    The Road - Cormac Mc Carthy
    Norwegian Wood - Murakami

    Will read in Portugal this week!!


  • #6
    eclectichoney
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    Loved Norwegian wood - it's murakami's more 'straight' novel.


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  • #7
    buck65
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    Read The Road- really enjoyed it,
    read the Reluctant Fundamentalist - pretty weak fare IMO
    reading Journey to the End of the night by Celine

    also got Come on In - new poems from Charles Bukowski


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