Jan 7, 2007

Blog Love

Hanging on the 'PhoneSan Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco,CA,USA... abhor any kind of musical comparison that might confine them to a certain genre and instead opt for literary references such as Tom Robbins, Ernest Hemingway ..

.whether 'tis noblerBy ptb Sure, we would have missed out on a lot of great writing, including my much adored and idolized Tom Robbins. Sure, there would be no point in making time to read the blogs I read everyday because they wouldn't exist. ...koans - http://part-timebuddha.squarespace.com/koans/

50bookchallenge @ 2007-01-05T00:05:00By 50bookchallenge(50bookchallenge) Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins The latter being one of my all-time favorite books; the first favorite is Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (which will undoubtedly be re-read at least one this year). I would love recommendations to add...50 Book Challenge - http://community.livejournal.com/50bookchallenge/


Kornwolf: A NovelBy Tristan Egolf(librarian@paperbackswap.com) ... on another, Kornwolf is a social satire of suburban sprawl, closed minds, and all manners and varieties of self-satisfaction — Amish, civilian, or... other — in the best tradition of Tom Robbins and George Saunders.PaperBackSwap New Postings - http://www.paperbackswap.com/

Still Life With WoodpeckerThe greatest book by the greatest author, Tom Robbins. I was reading Wild Ducks FLying Backward by him yesterday and ran across a passage from Still Life and it reminded me why I loved that book so mu...Tera - MySpace Blog - http://blog.myspace.com/teracarlile

Quotations for today.. welcome to my headBy wishingwell111(wishingwell111) From Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins "The clouds are throwing shoes as well as rice. You feel like the bride at some elemental wedding." I am feeling a bit out of sorts. For some reason I am attracting the view of reality ...wishingwell111 - http://wishingwell111.livejournal.com/

Love Quotations Albert Einstein: Gravitation is no...By Models of Car(Models of Car) Tom Robbins: The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect ...Unlimited FUN-Bazar - http://funbazar.blogspot.com/index.html

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By Readers(Readers) Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins; Flying Blind - Malcolm Rose; The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy; Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie; Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger; The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ...
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I love the booksBy cissella And this is not counting all those that I re-read (Lord of the Rings, many Terry Pratchett books, a few Tom Robbins books, the entirety of the Dark Tower series). I definitely fulfilled my desire to read a lot of new books and new ...Gazelles On Crack - http://gazellesoncrack.com/

I like it when a good plan comes together....By Pennie Boots It's Tom Robbins "Skinny Legs & All". I've never read Robbins before, but Meliss and I have pretty much the same tastes in books, we'll see how it goes. I also wandered into the music section and ended up picking up Loreena McKennitt's ...
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What I Read in 2006By PoliReads(PoliReads) Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins Catch Me If You Can - Frank Abagnale Jr Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's extraordinary life of wealth, empire, and utopian dreams - Michael D'Antonio Don't Get Too Comfortable : The Indignities of

Consumers changing? Or beginning of the end of the brand?By mary wynne-wynter These two articles seem related to me. I think of a quote from a favorite Tom Robbins book that has stuck with me for decades: "the more advertising I see the less I want to buy." Skin Deep: The Cosmetics...- http://www.redshiftblog.com/blog/