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[beachparty]

i had my first session of go-go robics today, and shit. i thought my prior dance career would have helped me, but i guess i'm out of touch with that side of myself. i had a little trouble in the beginning, but it's pretty fun, and it's a good workout for the non-workout oriented. i've been meaning to be more active for a while, cause i work on

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[licoricestick]

Two of my faves from last year were Bee Season and Word Freak.
Oh and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, if you haven't already read it :)

I won't get into the detail of them (check 'em out at Amazon), but Word Freak is about the cut throat crazy world of competative Scrabble. Believe me, it's a fascinating read!

[beachparty]

i so want to read the competitive scrabble book. i just can't figure out where we would put that at work (1000000+ books, 900 categories, no computer system. hmmm. ), so i am going to have to do some serious investigating.

[eljewell]

oh my. i'm not going to bother with underlining, but:

some favorites:
the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver
the red tent by anita diamant
anything by margaret atwood (the blind assassin, cat's eye, and the robber bride are some favorites)
anything by isabel allende (particularly the house of the spirits <3)

some classics:
to kill a mockingbird by harper lee
harriet the spy by louise fitzhugh
one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
in cold blood by truman capote

some funny stuff:
naked by david sedaris
me talk pretty one day by david sedaris

if you're homesick:
the mysteries of pittsburgh by michael chabon

fluff, but good fluff:
bag of bones by stephen king
the harry potter books by j.k. rowling

deep and meaningful cry-your-eyes out:
temple of my familiar by alice walker

non-fiction:
woman by natalie angier
red diapers ed. by shapiro and kaplan (brief memoirs by people who grew up as children in the communist party. inc. one by the son of the rosenbergs.)

[greyandred]

Wow. I second that whole list, except for two things I haven't read. I'd add Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of my Heart; just read that, dying to read the sequel. Also, Kingsolver has a couple of great books of essays out.

I just read Cruddy! So good.

[beachparty]

note taken. there was something i read not too long ago that made me think of you. i thought, "sarah would really like this." but i can't remember it now. this is what happens in old age (i say this being 12 days older than you).

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[greyandred]

hee hee. don't worry about it, i'm in old age too. my back hurts, i can't remember what i came into the room for, and i can't believe all these young kids are old enough to graduate and/or reproduce already.

[jess_s]

go-go robics!!!
(
my copy is gone now, so we will never be able to do the dance to chica alborotada in unison
:(
)

my favorite books right now are about whores and hookers and dancers.

but also, geek love (by katherine dunn) + clay's ark (octavia e. butler) are great to read in rapid succession, because they both have mutant babies in them and you know, i love mutant babies stories.

[beachparty]

i keep seeing 'geek love' show up in my amazon recommendations list. maybe i will check it out.