Hey Ken, why don’t you tell what you’re reading, or have just read?
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Jim Hicks
Quality Restoration Works, LLC
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From: Leland Torrence <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: The listserv where the buildings do the talking <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:31:16 -0400
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BP] The Joy of....
Wow. Thanks for all the reading tips: From verboatten fruits to sex-failedblogs. If I read just the re-reads I’ll have to add a week to my vacation. David, your wife may be on to something: “It is not how much you read, it is how much you spend.”
Best,
Leland
From: The listserv where the buildings do the talking [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Follett
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BP] The Joy of....
man, you guys haven't been teenagers in a while... what the hell is a book?
I read:
http://www.consumerist.com/
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
http://failblog.org/
They change every day and its great...
My wife actuality takes every book i can get my hands on and sells them on amazon before i can hide them somewhere.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
In a message dated 3/24/2010 5:46:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
Christopher
Lifeboat, by Stilgoe - History of lifeboat - for instance, pre-steam, everyone on board was a sailor, knots, wood, repairs, discipline, etc. - but after steam, there were two classes: remaining sailors and now "factory workers" (engine room) who had no nautical traditions. thus a) they didn't know how to handle the tackle for lowering boats b) it didn't occur to them to put the stopper in the bottom upon lowering, or to keep the boats wet at sea c) they rushed the boats, saying the hell with women and children
Norah Vincent Self-Made Man totally out dyke masquerades as man for a year, picks up girls at bars, joins working class bowling league, works in boiler shop selling stocks, gets lapdances in topless bar - and winds up thinking men are not so bad after all.
Alan Furst, nice, middle-aged sex scenes, not too demanding.
anything with "verbotten" (129,000 entries on google)
c
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