gotta be: - easy enough to transport -but lengthy enough to last 54 hours of transport (at least) -and not about genocide or ethnic violence (not the place, folks)
any barbara kingsolvers you haven't digested yet? (obviously not TPB) i just started animal dreams. have you read john irving's a prayer for owen meany? if not, and you'd like to borrow it, it's compact, and would probably last you 54 hours... let's see... i've got a high school-sized anna karenina (not abridged, just a cheap printing, smaller than a quality printing...)
alas. done done and done. discovered and fell in love with kingsolver in late high school and college and have read (i think) everything since. if you'd like to borrow any, by the way, i have almost all of her stuff. and PFOM i read in college too. and AK i just read (LOVED IT) this year. i'm not a big re-reader usually, though i did re-read animal dreams this year. sorry to shoot you down but i'm still open for more.
Wally Lamb books are always enjoyable though slightly large to carry but they would definately last the trip. Also The Year of Magical thinking by Joan Didion. -Lindsey-
Haven Kimmel's book A Girl Named Zippy is great and she has another one that just came out that continues her life story. It is very easy to read and very enjoyable. I would loan you my copy, but alas, it went to Chicago and decided to stay!! Also, you may like Celia Rivenbark's Bless Your Heart, Tramp or We're Just Like You, Only Prettier. Hmmm, both of them are from North Carolina, I'm pretty sure, so that is kind of in your neck of the woods! Anyway, that is my suggestion as of this moment.
I have Zippy! Sorry mom-I meant to give it back to you last weekend. Katie-if you want to read it, I can send it to you. Let me know. The sweet potato queens books are also loads of good fun. They are pretty light reading, but that is good cause you don't have to really think while you read them.
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any barbara kingsolvers you haven't digested yet? (obviously not TPB) i just started animal dreams. have you read john irving's a prayer for owen meany? if not, and you'd like to borrow it, it's compact, and would probably last you 54 hours... let's see... i've got a high school-sized anna karenina (not abridged, just a cheap printing, smaller than a quality printing...)
alas. done done and done. discovered and fell in love with kingsolver in late high school and college and have read (i think) everything since. if you'd like to borrow any, by the way, i have almost all of her stuff. and PFOM i read in college too. and AK i just read (LOVED IT) this year. i'm not a big re-reader usually, though i did re-read animal dreams this year. sorry to shoot you down but i'm still open for more.
we're just too gooda' friends! i'm okay with that :)
What about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or The Unbearable Lightness of Being or Memoirs of a Geisha?
Wally Lamb books are always enjoyable though slightly large to carry but they would definately last the trip. Also The Year of Magical thinking by Joan Didion. -Lindsey-
Haven Kimmel's book A Girl Named Zippy is great and she has another one that just came out that continues her life story. It is very easy to read and very enjoyable. I would loan you my copy, but alas, it went to Chicago and decided to stay!!
Also, you may like Celia Rivenbark's Bless Your Heart, Tramp or We're Just Like You, Only Prettier. Hmmm, both of them are from North Carolina, I'm pretty sure, so that is kind of in your neck of the woods!
Anyway, that is my suggestion as of this moment.
I have Zippy! Sorry mom-I meant to give it back to you last weekend. Katie-if you want to read it, I can send it to you. Let me know. The sweet potato queens books are also loads of good fun. They are pretty light reading, but that is good cause you don't have to really think while you read them.
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