#nowreading: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins

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“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
— Suzanne Collins (Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3))

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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3)

by Suzanne Collins

My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss’s family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans–except Katniss.

The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss’s willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels’ Mockingjay–no matter what the personal cost

#Nowreading: In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

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In Her Shoes

by Jennifer Weiner

Rose is a thirty-year-old attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She’s going to start exercising next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses and tell her she’s beautiful. Maggie is twenty-eight and drop-dead gorgeous. Although her stardom hasn’t progressed past her hip’s appearance in a music video, she dreams of fame and fortune. These two sisters claim to have nothing in common but DNA, a childhood tragedy, and a shoe size, but when they’re forced into cohabitation, they may just learn that they’re more alike than they thought.

#nowreading: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier

The hero of Charles Frazier’s first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is a deeply-imagined addition to the literature of one of the most transformational periods in American history.

#Nowreading: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
— J.K. Rowling

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(The Casual Vacancy)

by J.K. Rowling

A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN …

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils … Pagford is not what it first seems.

And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

#Nowreading: Next of Kin by Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills

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Next of Kin

by Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills

For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language–beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout’s odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. Living and conversing with these sensitive creatures has given him a profound appreciation of what they can teach us about ourselves. It has also made Fouts an outspoken opponent of biomedical experimentation on chimpanzees. A voyage of scientific discovery and interspecies communication, this is a stirring tale of friendship, courage, and compassion that will change forever the way we view our biological–and spritual–next of kin.

#nowreading: The Sun Also Rises

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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway;s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.

First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

Now Reading: Fifty Orwell Essays by George Orwell

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THE SPIKE (1931)
A HANGING (1931)
BOOKSHOP MEMORIES (1936)
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (1936)
DOWN THE MINE (1937) (FROM “THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER”)
NORTH AND SOUTH (1937) (FROM “THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER”)
SPILLING THE SPANISH BEANS (1937)
MARRAKECH (1939)
BOYS’ WEEKLIES AND FRANK RICHARDS’S REPLY (1940)
CHARLES DICKENS (1940)
CHARLES READE (1940)
INSIDE THE WHALE (1940)
THE ART OF DONALD MCGILL (1941)
THE LION AND THE UNICORN: SOCIALISM AND THE ENGLISH GENIUS (1941)
WELLS, HITLER AND THE WORLD STATE (1941)
LOOKING BACK ON THE SPANISH WAR (1942)
RUDYARD KIPLING (1942)
MARK TWAIN–THE LICENSED JESTER (1943)
POETRY AND THE MICROPHONE (1943)
W B YEATS (1943)
ARTHUR KOESTLER (1944)
BENEFIT OF CLERGY: SOME NOTES ON SALVADOR DALI (1944)
RAFFLES AND MISS BLANDISH (1944)
ANTISEMITISM IN BRITAIN (1945)
FREEDOM OF THE PARK (1945)
FUTURE OF A RUINED GERMANY (1945)
GOOD BAD BOOKS (1945)
IN DEFENCE OF P. G. WODEHOUSE (1945)
NONSENSE POETRY (1945)
NOTES ON NATIONALISM (1945)
REVENGE IS SOUR (1945)
THE SPORTING SPIRIT (1945)
YOU AND THE ATOMIC BOMB (1945)
A GOOD WORD FOR THE VICAR OF BRAY (1946)
A NICE CUP OF TEA (1946)
BOOKS VS. CIGARETTES (1946)
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK REVIEWER (1946)
DECLINE OF THE ENGLISH MURDER (1946)
HOW THE POOR DIE (1946)
JAMES BURNHAM AND THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION (1946)
PLEASURE SPOTS (1946)
POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1946)
POLITICS VS. LITERATURE: AN EXAMINATION OF GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (1946)
RIDING DOWN FROM BANGOR (1946)
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE COMMON TOAD (1946)
THE PREVENTION OF LITERATURE (1946)
WHY I WRITE (1946) (especially important for me)
LEAR, TOLSTOY AND THE FOOL (1947)
SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS (1947)
WRITERS AND LEVIATHAN (1948)
REFLECTIONS ON GANDHI (1949)