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In reply to the discussion: What are You reading? [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)9. Another Roadside Attraction.
Last edited Tue Jan 12, 2016, 01:07 AM - Edit history (1)
Again.
Just an escape to a space and time that somehow still feels like home. Some might even call Another Roadside Attraction "source" material for item #3 on your list.
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over....
This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. Tom Robbins
And now, back to the future.
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The Crossing by Michael Connelly- the latest Harry Bosh novel. Up Next: Rose Gold, by Walter Mosley
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Jan 2016
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I've been reading the often overlooked and entirely fascinating history of West Africa
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