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Book recommendations.

Looking for God Knows What by Donald Miller
The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dubliners by James Joyce
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Fun fact: My great-grandfather, Irish artist Peter James Keenan knew James Joyce. :-)

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[gorgeousbutterfly]

What kind of pearls are you wearing?

[lumosdawlish]

My dad gave them to my mother years ago. I'm not sure what kind they are. Unfortunately, I left them in a hotel about a year ago.

[bc06dave]

I love Donald Miller!

Have you read "Through Painted Deserts" by him?

[lumosdawlish]

I haven't yet! It's on my list.

[owlssayhooot]

Ur h0tt.

[lumosdawlish]

u r hawterr

[TwiVampFan]

Anyone seen any video reviews or read any online reviews about the e-book

April Curran Meets the Vampire of Crimson Cove High School?

[asmodeusz257]

Hi! I am from Poland. Maybe you know us Polish? Nevermind. I love the moments 0:26-0:27, 1:30, 1:54, 2:49, 2:54-2:57, 3:05, 3:06-3:08, 3:16, 3:27-3:29, 3:35, 4:13-4:14, 4:48-5:00. I love when you laughingh, smiling or touching books by your cheek or neck. When you doing it i have tignle and crawly feeling in my spin. And you have nice pearls, i love pearls, only that jewellery i really love. And its very good that you reading Joyce. Maybe you try Finnegans Wake? Bye, from Poland Krzysztof(Chris)

[IMnotSAS]

what i wonna know is, would you sleep with your favourite novelist? cos i just wanna know if novelists are a little like rock stars or not?

thanks

[c64c64c64]

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be?

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

[c64c64c64]

thanks for the tips, can i suggest "the prophet" by kahlil gibran, if you have not read already? you can find his entire book online by searching the prophet kahlil gibran in google :)

as a taster..i have pasted a little from his section on sorrow and joy.

[georges3601]

Oh, I definitely agree with you about Ginsberg.

But the thing with the Beats is that, I guess they all wrote jack-off sessions. They thought a bit too highly of themselves, imho.

But I'll give Burroughs this: On the Road bored me, but no matter how silly Naked Lunch gets, it's at least never dull.

[BloggerMusicMan]

@georges3601

Funny, I have the same opinion about Burroughs as you do about Kerouac. I think Burroughs would've been a really interesting guy to know in person, but I found "Naked Lunch" to be a "giant jack off session" (someone else came up with that, but I thought it summed it up too perfectly).

I'd have to disagree with you and Capote. I thought "On The Road" was really good. Although I think both of them are subpar to Allen Ginsberg.

Haven't read Virginia Wolfe, I should.

[BloggerMusicMan]

Read two of those books. The Year of Living Biblically was incredibly interesting. His encounters with young Earth creationists and other religious nutjobs like his uncle in Israel were absolutely hysterical. I've also read Portrait, which was a brilliantly conceived classic by one of the most fascinating authours of the 20th century.

Great list of books by the way, and your commentary was generally spot on.