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posted by catherine / March 04, 2004 / 
does anyone have a good book they can recommend to me? preferably fiction. i feel like i haven't read in months. i don't read on the metro (because i am a wuss and get carsick), i don't read at work (though i wish i could), i don't read at lunch (studying for GREs, eating with coworkers, being harrassed by the bums in dupont circle park, etc), and i don't read at home (i collapse into tired mess immediately upon reaching living room and reach for the remote instead of literary inspiration).
and, as usual, it almost time to go home and: i need a drink. last time i needed a tropical drink, no one would go out with me, and i had to buy pink lemonade from cvs and make my own fruity concoction. yeah. that was fun.
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Time's Arrow by Martin Amis is great, and brief - works well with a busy schedule. That's not the only reason it's great or whatever, but it works.
And his memoir, "Experience," while not fiction, is a really really great read.
I assume you've already read Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Milan Kundera? I also really enjoyed Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, but Kriston was lukewarm on it.
On a side note, a friend and I may be hitting happy hour at Cafe Citron this afternoon for mojitos. That's your neighborhood, so you should join if you're still in fruity-drink mode!
i have read one hundred years of solitude (since apparently that's what i would be if i were a book anyways), and i adore adore kundera, and actually i really liked the new york trilogy, too. i was thinking about getting ggm's autobiography, maybe.
i'm betting i'll be dying for a mojito by this evening, but i promised my roommate i'd help her move some furniture after work. but tommy and his roommates are thinking about having a bbq thing tomorrow so i'll send you and kriston an email to see if you feel like making it out to arlington again and we might go to the city tonight to celebrate his roommate's birthday so if you're going to be out there let me know and that was the longest comment ever.
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