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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:04 pm 
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I need a new book to read. I just finished this:

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Suggestions are welcome, most preferably something new. I have a bunch of bookmooch points to use but the ten or so books on my wishlist aren't available by anyone right now.

A friend told me to try this but I am skeptical:

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Heat by bill buford is really entertaining and interesting. it's about his sabbatical from the new yorker to apprentice in Mario Batalli's kitchen and then his subsequent trips to italy to learn more about real Italian cooking. It's also kind of about quitting your job/restarting your life in middle age to pursue a new passion or a new challenge. I've made it sound very mitch albom but it's not like that at all. it's flippant without being trite. anyway, i liked it a lot.


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Oh, and here's my wishlist if anyone wants to be my Secret Santa this year. :wink:



Shoichi Aoki Fruits

Shoichi Aoki Fresh Fruits (these are photography books)

Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov The White Guard

Mikhail Bulgakov The Fatal Eggs

William Burroughs Junkie

Stephen Clarke In the Merde for Love

Stephen Clarke Merde Actually

Danny Danziger 1215: The Year of Magna Carta

Haruki Murakami Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Irvine Welsh The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novel

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This guy has crack Wrote:
Heat by bill buford is really entertaining and interesting. it's about his sabbatical from the new yorker to apprentice in Mario Batalli's kitchen and then his subsequent trips to italy to learn more about real Italian cooking. It's also kind of about quitting your job/restarting your life in middle age to pursue a new passion or a new challenge. I've made it sound very mitch albom but it's not like that at all. it's flippant without being trite. anyway, i liked it a lot.



This sounds really good. I like Batali.


Thanks, I'll look this up.

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In school yesterday the kids were silent reading and i didn't have anything to do so i read the Encyclopedia of New York State. It was pretty good.

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I reread this recently, and need to read its rival book, Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen again.
I have read each of them at least twice, but once again I want to read up on my Holocaust History again.

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