In The Lake Of The Woods by Tim O'Brien

A gripping read for me. I finished it in a matter of hours.

A Vietnam Veteran who was running for a political office, state senator, and what came out about his time spent over there. I think it's interesting how the book is set up, telling the story through what John thinks and that is balanced by the quotes taken from interviews concerning John Wade, his wife Kathy and his character and events that happened in Vietnam. A quote from Woodrow Wilson used to illustrate a point about John, or just about human nature. It is me. It resonates with me in a way that proves how much it is me and it's not good.

"Sometimes I am a bit ashamed of myself when I think how few friends I have amidst a host of acquaintances. Plenty of people offer me their friendship; but, partly because I am reserved and shy, and partly because I am fastidious and have a narrow uncatholic taste in friends, I reject the offer in almost every case; and then am dismayed to look about and see how few persons in the world stand near me and know me as I am." -Woodrow Wilson

A quote from the text of the story:

"Curiously, as he worked out the details, Wade found himself experiencing a dull new sympathy for his father. This was how it was. You go about your business. You carry the burdens, entomb yourself in silence, conceal demon-history from all others and most times from yourself. Nothing theatrical. Shovel snow; diddle at politics or run a jewelry store; seek periodic forgetfulness; betray the past with every breath drawn from the bubble of a rotted past. And then one day you discovera length of clothesline. You amaze yourself. You pull over a garbage can and hop aboard and hook yourself up to forever. No notes, no diagrams: you don't explain a thing.

Which was the art of it - his father's art, Kathy's art - that magnificent giving over to pure and absolute Mystery. It was the difference, he thought, between evil and a bad childhood. To know is to be disappointed. To understand is to be betrayed. All the petty hows and whys, the unseemly motives, the abscesses of character, the sordid little ugliness of self and history - these were the gimmicks you kept under wraps to the end. Better to leave your audience wailing in the dark, shaking their fists, some crying How?, others Why?"

Books that THIS book are compelling me to check out due to the author or just the quotes and bits used in In The Lake Of The Woods:

The Court-Martial of Lt. Calley by Richard, Hammer
Recovering from the War : A Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends & Therapists by Patience H. Mason : I think I actually have this book listed in my WANT TO READ list because it deals with Vietnam Vets and their families.
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction by Tim O'Brien

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

Not a happy book. The concepts are enough to scare you to death just thinking about them. Don't look for a feel good ending here. Mr. Palahniuk doesn't deliver happy.

By The Light Of The Moon by Dean Koontz

I finished reading this last week but wanted to think about my response to this book for a few days. Koontz is either getting very lazy with this plots and how he wraps up a novel or he's getting into serial books. Like with this character that can't be around daylight, Christopher Snow. I loved the characters and the idea but finishing it up the way he did just seemed lazy and too pat for the subject matter. The only way I wouldn't be completely disappointed is to know that there is a sequel or more coming with this story arc. And horror or thriller? Nope. He's firmly stepped over into Science Fiction/Thriller area.

As The Wolf Loves Winter by David Poyer

I picked this book up on a whim, to fit in between all the Viet Nam stuff and it was very, very enjoyable. Oh yeah! It's also set mere geographical miles from where I grew up in Pennsylvania. Set in Hemlock County, I grew up in McKean County. I understood all the gas/oil stuff because it's what I GREW up with. David Poyer does an awesome job in describing my birthplace in winter. Also, the term "scummer" as applied to someone you think is white trash is a term I haven't heard in many, many years. I don't think I've ever heard it used anywhere else I've ever been. Very odd.

Darkness Peering by Alice Blanchard

A good fast read. Unexpected ending. I'm on hold at the library for her newest one out: The Breathtaker.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

An Audio book read by Campbell Scott

His reading is sort of monotone at first but I think his voice isn't normally like that and he was 'in character'. He did a very good job with it. Atwood of course, delivers a disturbing apocolyptic twist. It was a good story.

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

More thoughts on The Little Friend by Donna Tarrt

This book made enough of an impact on me that I've been mulling it over in my brain for the past month or so. The most pressing thought and question has been over children and their lack of awareness of their own mortality.

I know this is something that has been discussed to death but I kept trying to pinpoint the moment I became aware of my own mortality. Aware that even the smallest action could have the largest repercussions.

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

This author evokes every good thing (and a few of the bad) about the South and the culture and history and FEEL of the place better than any author I've read before. I loved this book. See this link for more information.

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Not Moby Dick: This book rocks. Totally. I wasn't too sure of it at the start but it is so well written, the story is so interesting and I love the main character, that you just get sucked into it's wake. Lovely, lovely!

Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

It doesn't matter where you go, it's the going that matters. I can totally relate to the main character's need to just drive. Just go. To leave. Sometimes it can be almost overwhelming, the desire to put all the problems behind you, to start over again, new and unknown. I really enjoyed this book. She has a few more books that I intend to check out.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

It's very good so far. Another classic I haven't read before.

The lady who reads it though is doing a fine job but I find myself hearing her dialect in my head and my God but you should have read the entry I wrote for my journal! I definitely had to go back and get the "southern" out of it before posting.

What an absolutely beautiful story. Scout and Jem and Atticus. Calpernia. Miss Maudie. Aunt Alexandria.

The irony of the 3rd grade school teacher being so very angry with Hitler when she herself is a racist. I cried when the men were at the courthouse and Scout was trying to talk to the Mr. Cunningham. Children are so innocent sometimes. The little romance between Dill and Scout. Boo Radley and the children's quest to SEE him. To solve the mystery surrounding him. This novel made me cry and love the south and hate it even more at the same time. Set in Alabama.

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

An excellent bit of information on the book and on Harper Lee here. I loved this book and I loved how Roses Prichard read the voice of Scout and Jem. She did a magnificent job.

On The Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons

I really enjoyed this story. Even Stuart listened to some of it and thought it interesting.

Set in the south, during the years prior to the Civil War and during the War. A story of a southern woman and her upbringing on a wealthy plantation that owned slaves, her terrible Father and having to deal with him, the attitude of the general plantation owner to slaves.

Emma Garnet is the name of the lady and she has a pretty difficult time dealing with a Father who sees his slaves as nothing but property to use and abuse and doesn't even give them the humanity of recognizing that they have names. Emma Garnet grows up under the care of an elderly Negress named Clarice who is the slave who raised Emma's Father. Emma meets a Yankee Doctor: Quinnsy Lowell and they marry. Her Father despises the Lowells as "nigger lovers" and Emma Garnet leaves and does not return, even after the time goes by with the birth of her and Quinnsy's three children and finally, the death of Emma Garnet's Mother. Sally Darling did the reading on this audiobook and I am very much looking forward to hear her read "The Age of Innocence" which I have to listen to soon.

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

I started reading on Thursday evening and finished it up completely this morning.

How sad is it when people want to just be loved but so many things, both little and big, stand in the way of understanding each other and being able to love. This book makes me sad that my Mother and I don't have something REAL between us. We both have let the little things and big things get in the way of each other. The saddest part is that we both realize this yet neither of us makes any moves to fix what is wrong.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Listened to the audiobook. Not a light hearted romance. More Romeo and Juliet tragedy.

Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

I listened to this in the abridged edition though I normally don't like listening to the abridgements. It was a good call. I liked it well enough though some of it seems extraordinarily silly but I don't know if that's just the book or the gaps between my culture and the Hispanic culture.

It used sound effects to show certain things and some of the wording and the images it brought to my brain make me just roll my eyes. Like thinking of the feeling Gertrudes (spelling?) gets after eating the pheasant and rose petal sauce (or was it Quail and Rose petals?) and running naked through the field only to be swept up by the El Capitan riding through.

The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie

I originally picked up this book to read because ChickLit grouped it with a few others that included The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

This is a first novel by Donna Gillespie and it is an epic. I'm not familiar with Rome and it's past rulers but it seems to read very historically as well as fantastically. Nero, Domitian and Nerva are the Emperors this book includes as well as inclusion of Germanic tribes and lore.

It touches on some of the twisted instances that ruled Rome back in that time like the use of animals for intercourse, the pure violence loved so much by men of power and rape but it doesn't go into soul-searing details and doesn't dwell on them but rather, mentions in passing. The prose isn't quite as purple and mystical as the Mists of Avalon but more based in drier historical bits. A good solid story with great characters.

Auriane is a warrior of the truest word. It's wonderful to read a book with characters that consider women in higher positions than men, that they are noble and should fight, that their cousel be sought and listened to. The concept that women have warrior spirits. I love it.

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

I don't know about this book. Owen's character is totally ticking me off right now. Manipulative and bossy. Not very sympathetic to him right now. I'm hoping this is going to change because I hate reading a book with a main character that I despise.

The Newton Letter by John Banville

This little gem of a story arrived on my doorstep this past week, a surprise that had me glowing and smiling and just grinning at the cover of the book for a good two days before I started it. Only 81 pages long, I knew it wouldn't take long to finish it once I started and I was correct. I loved it. It started off slow but after about 15 pages, I wanted to gulp it down in one swallow. I made myself ration it for a whole day, reading a little bit here and then putting it down and then I couldn't help it and finished it a few hours ago. There is much more to this novel than meets the eye and I'll have to read through it again but I only realized at the end, that the guy has no name. The man telling the story, never introduces himself.

Just off the cuff the story is about other people and how we come up with our own ideas of who they are, just by the surface information we are given and what happens when you take only surface information at face value. A lot like journals I think.

Edited to add: I just read Beth's review of this book and for once I GOT the idea of a book by myself. I hadn't read it beforehand. Maybe I have a LITTLE bit of a critical gene. Or the idea is so big that it just sort of clobbers you over the head. Ah well. I'll take what I can glean!

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I read it because Beth and Jeremy said something along the lines of "it's only 171 pages long!" I did not love the book though. Stuart also had me sort of confused because he got the movie Citizen Kane mixed up with this one and I kept waiting for some clue to come about and help me along since I've seen neither of the movies. Plus, I was totally in a Lord of the Rings mood. I read it though.

Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal

I lost my comments I made at the time I read this book because of the spammer's comments but I loved this book. Check out his web site.

I leaned right up against the wall in the library and read the prologue. It completely pulled me in and I am really looking forward to reading this. It's about the Amish and "community" and everything good and bad that it entails. Read an interview with the author here. He's a teacher at Boston College.

Lolita by Vladmimir Nabokov

Lolita was probably the most compelling yet disturbing thing I've every listened to. The words and writing were superb, enough so that you forgot at times that he was speaking of a pedophile's relationship with a young girl. Lyrical, heart-felt, wrenching. However, if you are looking for porn or nasty words or graphic detail, don't look for it in this book. Jeremy Irons read the audio that I listened to and his voice made it that much easier to listen to. Amazing.

Villa Incognito by Tim Robbins

Another audio listen.

I finished up listening to this book on the way to work this morning. I love the concept of Tenukis and wonder if they really exist in Japanese folklore or if they are a complete part of the author's imagination? Ms. Ginger Sweetie, Tenukis, phleBONGA or flabonga? I loved hearing the different voices for each character.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

I've never read any of his books and I LOVE this one so far. It's right violent when you don't expect it so it has a lot of power to grab you, unexpectedly. I'm looking forward to finding out what happens and how these characters develop.

Nature, Science, Animals

The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine by Frank Huyler

Very, very good

Biographies, Autobiographies & Commentary

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

When the things that are wrong in life to most "normal" people become right in your world, what does that mean? So disturbing in what's accepted, that even though you know it's wrong as you read, you see Augusten become adjusted to everything, no matter what.

This is so fantastic it doesn't even read like a autobiography but more like horror fiction. I read the entire book in less than 8 hours. For me, that's fast. Especially when I have Erica tearing down the shower curtain in the next room and 50 million other distractions.

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

I picked this book up last year I think, and just couldn't finish it. I'm not sure why but it wasn't funny in reading. Talking to Amanda one day, I told her that I HAD tried to read it but didn't like it and she recommended listening to the book because the author, David Sedaris, reads it like it's supposed to be and it's much more funny. And she was right! I'm about half way through and even Stuart has enjoyed the pieces he's heard while we've been riding. Highly recommended as an audio book.

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival At The South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers

I read this book faster than I've read through anything of this length in a very long time. Awesome description of a terrifying but great adventuresome experience. I wish nothing but the worst for her ex-husband though. Psychologically and emotionally abusing her for so long and not just her but keeping a hold on her children even into their adulthoods with lies and deception. People like that remind me of my ex-husband and I hope her's rots in hell. Her descriptions of the South Pole are so incredibly odd with what I see as I sit here in sunny North Carolina. The cold and extremes are not even imaginable to me. Excellent book.

Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson

Very quick, very fast. Good detail but not too graphic in either gore, violence or technical terms.

An American Daughter Goes To War by Winnie Smith

One of the most devastating books I've ever read. She's a combat nurse and these are her stories about going to Vietnam, working as a nurse in the combat hospitals and then coming back to "the real world."

My Dad is a Vietnam Veteran and I'm so proud of these men and women. They were doing only what they thought was right...trying to believe in the government that sent them there. I love my Dad and am so lucky he was one of the guys that got to come home. In one piece.

Home Before Morning by Linda Van Devanter

The second book I've read written by a nurse who served during Vietnam: Linda Van Devanter.

I think I've overdosed on the horror of Vietnam for awhile. Even though I have a stack of about 10 books regarding Vietnam that I want to read. It's rough and disturbing. And prompted me to write a 5 page letter to my Dad. I've read through the harrowing situations and I feel it in my gut. I know why my Dad is so much like he is and how he got there. No, I've never experienced it and I hope to Christ that neither me nor my children will ever have to.

I Am The Central Park Jogger by Trisha Meili

How horrifying is that whole story? True story. Already brutal as hell and I'm only a few pages in. This woman IS Lady Courage.

The Accidental Cowboy by Jameson Parker

I just finished this book and it was better than I expected. Lots of details about modern day ranchers/cowboys out in the West and some of the difficulties they face but not too preachy about how the government doesn't help. A fair amount of information on horses and their illnesses and how to fix them/prevent them. Not technical information though. All in all, a down to earth book that chronicles his experience with being shot and how it shaped his immediate life afterwards. You go guy. I'd rather have another cowboy than another actor in this world.

Sickened by Julie Gregory

Bent But Not Broken People: I thought I'd seen it mentioned here but maybe it was in someone's book log instead. Very disturbing to read. It's got to be a small miracle that this woman has even come as far as she has. Struggling up from under the morass of a mental illness, mostly by the grit of your own gut, is not easy. Ms. Gregory has her own website here.

Miscellaneous

Abandoned America by Steve Gottlieb

Coffee Table Book: I don't normally go in for photography books but the subject of this one is of great interest to me, especially the stuff here in the south. I see a lot of abandoned old things or weathered old things and i wish that I had a good enough eye and skill with a camera to photograph them and record them, even if only for myself. Some of his stuff reminds me very much of Ansel Adams.

Abarat by Clive Barker

This seems to be a very interesting book but I think I need to read it when I don't have so much Tolkien on the brain. I mean, hell, I'm dreaming about GANDALF for Christ's sake. Candy Quackenbush and her adventure is one I'll come back to again some day. Just not right now.

The Tales of Murasaki by Liza Dalby

I'd like to read the Tales of Genji by Murasaki first and then come back and read this.

Dakota: A Spiritual Guide by Kathleen Norris

I got this out on Audio and I don't know whether it was the reader and the pace but talk about irritating. I'd rather read this type of book and pick her voice myself.

Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett

I wanted to love this book and really, I did like the very first short story and I loved the one whose title is "Rare Bird". It's the one about the swallows and underwater and all that.

If it contained more of the science and less heartbreak of the people surrounding the sciences, it would have been a better fit for me. Otherwise, I found it to be unsatisfying and unbearably gloomy. Not a good read for me right now.

The Coast Of Good Intentions by Michael Byers

Regina's Song by David and Leigh Eddings

Wind by Jan DeBlieu

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

From 500 Great Books By Women

OBSERVATIONS

A Country Year : Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell *

Book Description
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age.

Fifty Russian Winters : An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union
by Margaret Wettlin (Author)
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Kate Boris-Brown

In 1932, Margaret Wettlin purchased tickets for a month's tour of Soviet Russia, took a leave of absence from her job as a high school teacher in Pennsylvania, and sailed off to see "The Great Social Experiment" for herself. Forty-two years later she returned to the United States. In that time she taught English at a Russian-American automobile plant in Gorki, married a Russian theater director, lived in a log cabin in Outer Mongolia, made a home in Moscow, raised her children, and believed in...

The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by Dick Davis, 1962
Essays

May You Be The Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller
Nonfiction

Ingram
Acclaimed journalist Elisabeth Bumiller presents a revealing look at the women of India. From "bride burnings" made to look like accidents, sterilization camps, and arranged marriages, to vital women struggling to succeed, Bumiller "zeroes in on women and ends up illuminating a whole world."--Newsweek.

The Nocturnal Naturalist by Cathy Johnson*

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard*

The World And The Bo Tree by Helen Bevington

PIONEERS & SEEKERS

All But The Waltz by Mary Clearman Blew Memoir
Anapurna by Arlene Blum Memoir
The Cavalry Maiden by Nadezhda Durova, 1836, translated from Russian Diary
The Curve Of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet Memoir
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird, 1879 Letters
My Antonia by Willa Cather* Novel
Tracks by Robyn Davidson, 1982, Australia * Memoir
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman *
Plain and Simple by Sue Bender
Real-Farm by Patricia Tichenor Westfall
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria
Changes In Latitude by Joana McIntyre Varawa
The Day I Began My Studies in Philosophy and Other Stories by Margareta Ekstrom, translated from Swedish by Eva Claeson, 1989, Sweden, Short Stories
The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre, translated from French by P.A. Chilton, 1558, France Short Stories
Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel * Novel
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de LayfayetteNovel
Stones For Ibarra by Harriet Doerr Novel
Forged Under The Sun by Maria Elena Lucas with Fran Leeper Buss, 1993, United States Oral History
An Imagined World by June Goodfield, 1981, United States Nonfiction
Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains by Linda Hasselstrom, 1987, United States Journal

ART

The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip, 1989, Japan (United States) Nonfiction

CHOICES

Elenor Roosevelt, Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, 1992, United States * Biography

CONFLICTING CULTURES

Coming Of Age In Mississippi by Anne Moody, 1968, United States *
Autobiography
Coonardoo by Katherine S. Prichard, 1929, Australia
Novel
Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone, 1953, United States
Autobiography

ETHICS

Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage, 1993, United States\ Essays
Grey Is The Color of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya, translated from Russian by Alyona Kojevnikov, 1988, Russia Memoir
Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories by Rebecca Harding Davis, 1861, United States Novella
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, 1948, United States *(sound recording only) Short Stories
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, 1992, Africa/United States * Novel
Requieum by Shizuko Go, translated from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt, 1973, Japan Novel
Walls: Resisting The Third Reich, One Woman's Story by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus,1974, Germany Memoir

FAMILIES

Family Pictures by Sue Miller, 1990, United States *
Novel
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, US *
Novel
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame, 1960, New Zealand
Novel
Six of One by Rita Mae Brown, 1989, US *
Novel
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, 1991, US *
Novel

FRIENDSHIPS & INTERACTIONS

Copper Crown by Lane von Herzen, 1991, US
Novel
A Weave of Women by E.M. Broner, 1978, Israel
Novel

GROWING OLD

Two Old Women by Velma Wallis, 1993, US
Novel
The Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, 1946, China
Novel

GROWING UP

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969, US *
Autobiography

HERITAGE

Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman, 1988, Poland
Memoir

Ganado Red by Susan Lowell, 1988, US
Short Stories

My Place by Sally Morgan, 1983, Australia
Autobiography

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988, Zimbabwe
Novel

Once Upon An Eskimo Time by Edna Wilder, 1987, United States
Biography

The Roots of Ticasuk by Ticasuk (Emily Ivanoff Brown), 1974, US
Autobiography

Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord, 1981, China (US)
Novel

Talking Indian by Anna Lee Walters, 1992, US
Essays/Short Stories

Tracks by Louise Erdrich, 1988, US
Novel

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, 1975, US
Biography

IMAGINED WORLDS

The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World by Ethel Johnston Phelps, 1981, US
Short Stories

The Painted Alphabet by Diana Darling, 1992, Indonesia (US)
Novel/Folk Tale

Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter, 1985, England
Short Stories

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated from German by Shaun Whiteside, 1962, Austria
Novel

MOTHERS AND MOTHERING

Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson, 1986, US
Novel

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, 1988, England
Novel

In My Mother's Kitchen by Kim Chernin, 1983, US
Biography

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich, 1796, US
Nonfiction

Riding In Cars With Boys by Beverly Donofrio, 1990, US
Autobiography

Why Not Me? The story of Gladys Milton, Midwife by Wendy Bovard and Gladys Milton, 1993, US
Oral History

Wild Swans by Jung Chang, 1991, China
Autobiography

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
Dave Eggers (Editor), Zadie Smith (Editor)

The Best American Essays 2003
Robert Atwan (Editor), Anne Fadiman (Editor)

Links To Check Out

http://www.whichbook.net/index.jsp

From Gallifrey

1. Wind : How the Flow of Air has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land by Jan De Blieu **
2. In Search of Moby Dick: Quest for the White Whale by Tim Severin
3. Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill A. Fredston
4. A Scientific Romance  by Ronald Wright
5. Souls in the Great Machine  by Sean McMullen
6. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons***
7. A Cure for Gravity by Arthur Rosenfeld

** Available in local library
*** Audio recording

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Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp (nita mentioned it over at TUS)

The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone (found trhough a Chicklit bundle)

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