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flowers for algernon (daniel keyes) - fiction book club book for september

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i am the cheese (robert cormier) - lilly recommended it as one of her favorites, a young adult psychological thriller

sophie's world (jostein gaarder) - a thinly disguised philsophy 101 textbook

Friday, March 17, 2006

poplorica (2004)

Poplorica : A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America (Martin J Smith, Patrick J Kiger)

twenty or so short chapters about how things like nylon stockings, air conditioners, tv dinners, dr j's dunk, and the betty ford clinic started and have influenced our lives. incredibly interesting but in the end, not exactly a book you'd re-read or have reason to own.

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