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What? How is this possible? My long paper with the math got a 100%! I got an A- in the class! OMG! I am truly flabbergasted. And pleased!
OMG! An A- in my database class!
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What? How is this possible? My long paper with the math got a 100%! I got an A- in the class! OMG! I am truly flabbergasted. And pleased!
OMG! An A- in my database class!
Stephen King: Dreamcatcher
Too gross for words.
Ann Patchett: Taft: A Novel (P.S.)
Nothing she wrote before Bel Canto can ever compare, but this novel was pretty good anyway.
Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants: A Novel
Wow, I really like this book. It's entertaining, has good characters and is well-plotted.
Karen Joy Fowler: Wit's End
Go, KJF!
Mei Ng: Eating Chinese Food Naked: A Novel
This book jumped around from character to character in point of view, which took some getting used to. Overall it was pretty entertaining.
Samantha Gillison: The Undiscovered Country
Sort of a dreamy read. A couple with a child go to the interior of New Guinea and their marriage frays gradually. With a surprise ending!
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
In some ways better than his first, this book chronicles two women's lives in Afghanistan first under Soviet rule and then under the Taliban. I enjoyed it despite the hardships.
Anita Amirrezvani: The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
This was a good novel, very informative on the subject of rugmaking and social practices of the middle east a couple of hundred years ago.
Stanley E. Ely: Living Alone Creatively: How Twelve People Do It
Anne Tyler: Celestial Navigation
Each chapter is another character among people who know each other in Baltimore.
Ann Patchett: Run
The story of one fateful night when a family confronts itself. It's subtle and well-written and comes out in a satisfying way.
Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Great premise; a doctor delivers his own twins, and gives away the one with down syndrome to his nurse: sentimentally done. I enjoyed the book for the characters, however.
Lolol Major Congratulations Jo, I knew you'd do well.
Posted by: blaize | May 17, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Hah!
Posted by: Barak | May 17, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Good for you! You rock!
Posted by: Tonya | May 17, 2008 at 01:07 PM
w00t!
Posted by: k | May 17, 2008 at 04:10 PM
Gosh, you are SO smart!!
Congrats!
Posted by: | May 17, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Thanks, all!
Posted by: Jo | May 18, 2008 at 09:03 AM
Hah! You so rock!
Posted by: elswhere | May 18, 2008 at 10:11 AM
That tapping sound you hear in the distance is me doing the Happy Dance. Congratulations, m'love.
(tappita tappita tappita)
Posted by: Bakerina | May 18, 2008 at 11:53 AM
I'm officially jaded and jealous...I got a C in Algebra this semester! : (
But, really, congrats!
Posted by: JadedBeauty | May 18, 2008 at 06:00 PM
As your "friend" of many years, I'm puffed with pride.
Posted by: selena | May 19, 2008 at 04:41 AM