Victor

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Post from the Holidays on Ice forum

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I forgot until just now, the CD that I got stuck in my old car and was too lazy/cheap to fix and had to get really into cassettes (cheap) was this one. Never heard it. But actually, I think I saw a piece of SantaLand Diaries before and, it is a really good one.

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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

David Sedaris

In David Sedaris’s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris’s collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. David Sedaris made his debut on NPR’s Morning Edition with “SantaLand Diaries”, recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy’s, and soon became one of the show’s most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen. Parade -- Music for lovers -- The last you'll hear from me -- My manuscript -- Firestone -- We get along -- Glen's homophobia newsletter vol. 3, no. 2 -- Don's story -- Season's greeting to our friends and family!!! -- Jamboree -- After Malison -- Barrel fever -- Diary of a smoker -- Giantess -- The curly kind -- SantaLand diaries

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Victor

Thoughts from 85% (page 167)

Jamboree was good. I don't know I think sometimes you have to read it exactly in his voice, or in the case of Violet, Amy Sedaris voice from the pink cat. Well Barrel Fever was good too. Okay now in After Malison do you think they were both after him??? Like chasiojng him like both stalking him or is it just bad luck of the girl seeing that same guy twice?

Victor wants to read...

The Other Valley

Scott Alexander Howard

A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it’s the same valley, the same town--except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present. Edme––who is brilliant, funny, and the only person to truly see Odile––is about to die. Sworn to secrecy in order to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate, yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future.

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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

David Sedaris

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Victor

Music for Lovers

New song from "Spirit Phone"

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Taft

Ann Patchett

John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft -- Fay and Carl's dead father -- and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers...

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Victor

Thoughts from 80% (page 218)

Book named Taft: whose ready fr more Taft? like no i want Franklin. I'm really immersed!

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Victor

Wyonming

Cody... Jackson... what could it mean

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Victor

Thoughts from 63% (page 157)

Exciting relationship dynamics pattern from Patchett between this and Patron St. of Liars

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Taft

Ann Patchett

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Accidents in North American Mountaineering 1999

American Alpine Club

This annual investigative handbook offers detailed reports of more than sixty climbing accidents that occurred in 1998. An analysis of what went wrong in each situation gives experienced and beginning mountaineers the opportunity to learn from other climbers' mistakes. From inadequate protection, clothing, or equipment to inexperience, poor judgment, or simple ignorance, the errors recorded in this book are invaluable safety. lessons for all climbers.

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Victor

Thoughts from 100%

THIS one is pretty dry. Weirdly the next one (2000) I liked better, but it's basically the same unless it had more first-hand accounts. I heardthe newer editions are very different.

Victor wants to read...

Endling

Maria Reva

Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick biologist who lives out of her mobile lab. She scours the country’s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to give up, settle down, and start a family. What they don’t know: Yeva already dates plenty of men—not for love, but to fund her work—entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they’ll find docile brides uninfluenced by feminism and modernity. Nastia and her sister Solomiya are also entangled in the booming marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator while secretly searching for their missing mother—a flamboyant protestor who vanished after years of fierce activism against the romance tours. So begins a journey of a lifetime across hundreds of miles: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species. But their plans come to a screeching halt as Russia invades.

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The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing, beautifully written debut novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel's decision to keep this "gift from God." And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another's tragic loss.

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Accidents in North American Mountaineering 1999

American Alpine Club

Post from the Introduction to Fire in California forum

Victor

100 foot defencible space

Isn't that just like Over The Hedge on a smaller scale? Or actually maybe just as big. The diagrams showing grass... Well what I didn't like about Over The Hedge was "what am I supposed to do about" my parents choice to live in a housing tract. WELL I have to live somewhere?! This is affordable... What do you think where do you live what could you do. I DON'T want my property to catch on fire any part of it not just my house but I've had enough of squirrels and you've had enough of deer.

Victor finished reading and wrote a review...

Victor

Jun 11, 2025

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

NO I meant to add the 2021 one. Anyways this is really good, lots of interesting stuff about the history of fire prevention and animals and plants. But it is very California and it is about real fires. And it has full color pictures of the trees found in my backyard

Victor wants to read...

The Hunting Accident

David L. Carlson

In order to prevent his son from going down the same dark path he did, a blind poet must tell his son about his secret life as a mobster. "The Hunting Accident" is the true life story of a Chicago gangster who is blinded during a shootout and is sent to Stateville Prison where he learns to navigate life under the tutelage of real life thrill killer Nathan Leopold.

Post from the A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1) forum

Victor

Cover at a glance:

Apple core. Typical of a vampire book

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