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My "books that'll fit sideways up Oprah's ass" club |
| December | November | October | |||
| December's Book of the Month (and Chris Hitchens' favorite novel) was "Middlemarch" by George Eliot . |
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Novembers's Book of the Month was "Working Towards Whiteness" by David R. Roediger. |  |
October's Book of the Month was "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev. |
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| September | August | July | |||
| September's Book of the Month was "Who Wrote the Bible" by Richard Friedman. |
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August's Book of the Month was "God Against The Gods " by Jonathan Kirsch. |  |
July's Book of the Month was "The Battle For God" by Karen Armstrong. |
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| June | May | April | |||
| June's Book of the Month was "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy. |
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May's Book of the Month was "Claudius the God" also by Robert Graves. |  |
April's Book of the Month was "I Claudius" by Robert Graves. |
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| March | February | January | |||
| March's Book of the Month was A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar Just in time for Prince Charles' wedding. |
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February's Book of the Month was "Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss I'm hoping to improve to grammar in the death threats I get. |
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January's Book of the Month was "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" by A.J. Jacobs |
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| December | November | October | |||
| December's Book of the Month (and Chris Hitchens' favorite novel) was "Middlemarch" by George Eliot . |
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Novembers's Book of the Month was "Working Towards Whiteness" by David R. Roediger. | |
October's Book of the Month was "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev. |
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| September | August | July | |||
| September's Book of the Month was "Who Wrote the Bible" by Richard Friedman. |
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August's Book of the Month was "God Against The Gods " by Jonathan Kirsch. | |
July's Book of the Month was "The Battle For God" by Karen Armstrong. |
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| June | May | April | |||
| June's Book of the Month was "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy. |
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May's Book of the Month was "Claudius the God" also by Robert Graves. | |
April's Book of the Month was "I Claudius" by Robert Graves. |
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| March | February | January | |||
| March's Book of the Month was A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar Just in time for Prince Charles' wedding. |
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February's Book of the Month was "Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss I'm hoping to improve to grammar in the death threats I get. |
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January's Book of the Month was "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" by A.J. Jacobs |
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| December | November | October | ||||
| December's Book of the Month was "The Bible Unearthed" by Israel Finkelstein. AKA "That goddamn Finkelstein shit kid." |
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November's Book of the Month was "The Monks of Monk Hall" by George Lippard. |
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October's Book of the Month was "Willful Blindness" by Trudy Rubin. |
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| September | August | July | ||||
| September's Book of the Month was "Boob Jubilee" from the good folks at the Baffler. |
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August's Book of the Month was "Bare-Faced Messiah" by Russell Miller You can read it on-line here. |
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July's book of the Month was Any chess manual you can get your mitts on. |
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| June | May | April | ||||
| June's book of the Month was Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years by Haynes Johnson |
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May's book of the Month was The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout |
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April's book was What if? What if this book wasn't very good? Trust me, it wasn't |
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| March | February | January | ||||
| Ubber-babe Donna Tarrt makes her second appearance on the list with The Little Friend |
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February's book was The Perfect Heresy The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars by Stephen O'Shea |
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January's book was A Brutal Friendship - The West and the Arab Elite by Said K. Aburish Here's what I learned |
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| December | November | October | |||
| December's book was Sexual Personae - art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia Look! A review! |
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November's book was Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell Read my review, damn it. |
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October's book was Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs by Adrienne Mayor |
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| September | August | July | |||
| September's book was Big Lies by Joe Conason, or Joe Conason punches Anne Coulter in her ugly face by Joe Conason. Review! |
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August's book was MY Story by, armed babe, Amy Fisher It was shocking. It was revealing. It was only $1.25 at the used book store. |
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July's book was Four Plays Aristophanes. No, you don't have to read all four plays, but you should read The Frogs and Lysistrata. |
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| June | May | April | |||
| June's book was The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It's a a feel-good tale of the poverty and despair that we'll all be feeling during Bush's second term in office. |
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May's book was As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I hear it's really good and i'm hoping that I actually get the time to read it. |
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April's book was The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot Perhaps the most macho book of poetry ever written. Here's the review |
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| March | February | January | |||
| Calling all Nerds, March's book was The Iliad by my homie, Homer. Sure, it's an epic poem but so is Taking Retards to the Zoo. Read the review here |
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Hey, you ratbastards, last Month's book is The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I hope it doesn't offend any of you classical Greek scholars out there. Find out by reading my review |
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Our first book of 2003 was The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen. It's the only book ever dropped from Oprah's book club. I fished my copy out of her trash. Read the obscenity filled review here |
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| December | November | October | |||
| December's book of the month was The Magic Christian by Terry Southern You can check out the review/rant here Warring: I wrote the review while drunk and the review might be longer than the book. |
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November's book was Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West By Cormac McCarthy This may just be the best book that you'll ever read. Here's my review |
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October's book was,
fittingly enough, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. In order to properly review this book, I traveled over 300 miles and spent the night in a haunted house. Read about it here |
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| September | August | September's pick was... Fire & Roses by Nancy Lusignan Schultz I thought the book was a little dry. But what do the members of REM think? click here to find out. |
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August's book was The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman I recently moderated a lively discussion of this book that featured the opinions of several Harry Potter fans and my mother. To watch the sparks fly, click here |
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Short Stories by Mr. Anonymous |
| Christmas With Its Ears Cut Off A Charming Yuletide Tale in the |
Snowbird The story of one man's |
Brachman Takes The Wheel The second story in |
The Black Frog of Calaveras County A semi-chilling tale from |
| The Oblong Fence Yet another tale from |
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Miscellaneous |
You've Got Fongo - The on-going e-mail correspondence of Jerry "Fongo" Fongowski