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Great collection of short stories detailing the round-the-world adventures of a twenty something traveler. From pearl-diving in Thursday Island to fish trading in the Maldives to shipping crates from Calcutta, Eric brings warms stories of his encounters with people he meets along the way. Some of the best stories are...
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Like the Red Panda
by lz in Reading Archive on 14Mar2007
Delicious Andrea Seigel writing-- I just sped through her first book, trying to slow down and savor it, but it was too damn good, so it just pushed me to the end. Stella is orphaned at 11 when both her parents OD on coke within minutes of each other. Put...
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Leonard Woolf
by lz in Reading Archive on 10Mar2007
Nothing matters. This was Leonard's mantra, his guiding force during his early years. I've finally glimpsed behind the curtain to see the man who helped stabilize Virgina Woolf enough to write her genius gifts to literature. LW a force in his own right, part of the Bloomsbury set, Cambridge educated...
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