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What Are You Reading Right Now?
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This is a group where you can tell us what you're reading and what you think of it to give others some ideas. Your choices can be fiction, non-fiction, articles, books, blogs, whatever. Tell us what it is and your opinion of it!
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Comment by Paul Halpern on April 25, 2010 at 9:35pm
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Christine has a great list of recommended songs at the back of her autobiography. One of them is Stephen DiJoseph's rendition of Scarborough Fair. Congratulations to Stephen!
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The question is: who (or whom) doesn't she talk about! There are references to almost every major folksinger I can think of and a lot of rock artists. The introductory chapter is about her opening for Joan Rivers and how everything goes wrong. Checking the index, there are plenty of references to Janis Ian, who published her own musical autobiography last year. There are similarities between Ian's and Lavin's accounts, particular in that both autobiographies are very direct and honest, never sidestepping the painful moments (as well as the funny moments).
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Comment by wiffledust on April 25, 2010 at 2:16pm
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paul, how can i be so blind that i didn't even know it was out there!!! she is on my page, and i didn't even see her promote it. she was saying "my book", but i thought she was talking about something else. thank you so much for this!!! i can't wait to read it! who does she talk about? excuse me, whom.
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I'm reading "Cold Pizza for Breakfast," Christine Lavin's new autobiography. Wonderful book, packed with great stories about musicians!
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is anybody else on here a fan of andre dubois' short stories???
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Comment by Sue on April 11, 2010 at 2:28pm
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definitely not dense reading...this series is a fun read. i don't remember it ever taking me more than a day to read one of her books.
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i'm getting the best ideas here for reading and music, and i just wish i had more time to read novels. what is better than losing yourself in a great story? Lula sounds like fun as does this stephanie plum series. warn me if something is dense reading or not. the last book i picked up was so dense it wore me out. what an anti intellectual thing to say, but when i'm looking to just lose myself, i don't want to have to keep rereading the paragraph to be sure i understood it, ya know?
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getting caught up here by the way...love the Stephanie Plum series. And definitely Ranger!!!! Lula is my favorite character...cracks me up.
I do have to say i don't like the "in between" ones with Diesel, etc. My sister does and is reading Plum Spooky right now.
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It's a memoir by Abigail Thomas whose husband was severely injured in an accident and her coping with his condition and building a new life. It's very good and very touching.
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sue i can't even imagine how great it was to hear langston hughes being read by danny glover. that's just too good! i wonder if there is a clip of that on youtube...i'm going to look. what is a "a three dog life" about??
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