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 What I've been reading lately . . .
   Materials for research or class preparation don't count, of course.  Listed below, in
   reverse chronological order, are some of the best books that I've read recently.
   Want to recommend a book to me?  Send me an e-mail!
 
    Since November 1999:
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers.
    The Case of Emily V., by Keith Oatley.
    My Dark Places, by James Ellroy.
    A Stained White Radiance, by James Lee Burke (recommended by J. J. Reilly at Holy Cross).
    Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott.
    Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Hoffmann.
    My Sister Life, by Maria Flook..
    Blue at the Mizzen, by Patrick O'Brien.
    Love in a Dead Language, by Lee Siegel.
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling.
    The Manikin, by Joanna Scott (a prizewinning fellow alumna of Brown's Graduate Writing Program).
    Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates.
    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore their Favorite Fairy Tales, ed. by Kate Bernheimer.
 
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