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THE YELLOW-LIGHTED BOOKSHOP by Lewis Buzbee. A sweet memoir of selling books, reading books, stacking books and simply loving books in some of the greatest -- and lost -- bookstores of Northern California.
THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR by Andrew Keen, a smart writer who would see the irony of my mentioning his book on a MySpace Webpage.
THE LAY OF THE LAND by Richard Ford. A hilarious fictional exposes of selling real estate in Jersey. I'll be looking for all the others in Ford's series.
THE TOURISTS by Jeff Hobbs, a anthropological study of New Yorkers who graduated from Yale and have yet to recover. I read this one like lightning.
THE RUM DIARY by Hunter S. Thompson. Makes you want to toss everything and head to Puerto Rico, write for a newspaper, drink nothing but rum, and live like Thompson. It makes such a life look glamorous and fun. So authentic and effective, I felt hung over and needed a long nap when I finished.
THE DIANA CHRONICLES by Tina Brown. A very fair book, I thought. Read it as a companion piece to "The Queen", with Helen Mirren and Directed by Stephen Frears.
WHITETHORN WOODS by Maeve Binchy. I am a sucker for Maeve's books. All of them. And this book is told in a long chain of individual, linking stories. The woman amazes me.
What have you been reading?
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