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Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 1 16.67%
The Ghost - Robert Harris 0 0%
Half Broken Things - Morag Hass 0 0%
Murder At The Vicarage - Agatha Christie 0 0%
A Place Of Execution - Val McDermid 0 0%
The Awakening - Kate Chopin 0 0%
T Is For Trespass - Sue Grafton 0 0%
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 0 0%
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson 0 0%
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards 0 0%
Atonement - Ian McEwan 1 16.67%
Pere Goriot - Honore Balzac 0 0%
Ulysses - James Joyce 0 0%
Not Wanted On The Voyage - Timothy Findlay 1 16.67%
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron 0 0%
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk 0 0%
Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald 0 0%
The Crying Of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon 1 16.67%
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski 0 0%
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet 0 0%
Travelling Mercies - Ann Lamott 0 0%
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory 2 33.33%
Daugher Of Fortune - Isabel Allende 0 0%
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Old April 6th, 2008, 07:33 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default April's Book Discussion - Memories Of My Melancholy Whores (G G Marquez)
OK - if you have read it and want to discuss it the thread is officially open! Please vote in the Poll for June's book.
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my vote's for the crying of lot 49. it's been recommended to me so many times over the years it's about time i finally read it.
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I read the book, but it's hard to know where to start discussing this one. It left me a little icky in the same way Lolita did.
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