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Noran is currently reading

	12/30 Noran is currently reading: Gantz: Volume 2 (b&w, 224 pages, TPB, 5 1/8" x 7 1/16") by Hiroya Oku bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	12/20 Noran is currently reading: Lost Crafts: Rediscovering Traditional Skills (Hardcover) by Una McGovern bookshelves: crafts, currently-reading	my rating:
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	12/08 Noran is currently reading: Ray Volume 3 (Paperback) by Akihito Yoshitomi bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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January 06
	Noran marked as to-read: Seizing the Enigma: Race to Break the German U-boat Codes, 1939-43 (Paperback) by David Kahn bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Noran marked as to-read: Crusade in Europe (Hardcover) by Dwight D. Eisenhower bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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January 04
	Noran added: The Littlest Hitler (Paperback) by Ryan Boudinot (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: 2009-book-list, a-maybe	my rating:
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	Noran read and liked Greg's review of The Littlest Hitler: "A fun collection of short stories, in the same vein as George Saunders or a less verbose David Foster Wallace. The surreal quality thrown into these stories that mainly deal with everyday life in modern society works incredibly well. Where the idea...more " add a comment
	Noran read and liked karen's review of The Littlest Hitler: "this collection is just "off" enough to appeal to me. its a good balance of creepy and gentle, with some humor infusing both. i tend not to read short stories, so for me to have liked all but one ("written by machines"), well it m...more " 5 comments
	Noran marked as to-read: Black Lagoon, Vol. 1 (Black Lagoon) by Rei Hiroe bookshelves: 2009-book-list, to-read	my rating:
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	Noran marked as to-read: Rose Hip Rose Volume 1 (Rose Hip Rose) by Toru Fujisawa bookshelves: 2009-book-list, to-read	my rating:
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	Noran marked as to-read: Aoi House Omnibus 1 (Aoi House) by Adam Arnold bookshelves: 2009-book-list, to-read	my rating:
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January 03
	Noran marked as to-read: CSI: Headhunter (CSI) by Greg Cox bookshelves: 2009-book-list, to-read	my rating:
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	Noran marked as to-read: Nearsighted Monkey (Hardcover) by Lynda Barry bookshelves: 2009-book-list, to-read	my rating:
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Noran's favorite quotes

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."
— Thomas Paine

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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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"So he stood back in the world again, in the Mojave Desert; and the whole world was a simulation, a perfect fiction. A book that actually was blank. Nothing wrote it, but itself; and how this could be was the greatest mystery. For if he could read it properly he knew that all the words would disappear."
— Ian Watson (The Miracle Visitors)

2 people liked it

"Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd."
— William Congreve

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Noran's writing

Frustation! (Biographies & Memoirs)

1 chapters — updated 08/26/2008 05:02AM

description: HIPPA keeps me from telling ANYONE about the greatest in my nursing life for years and it sucks1

The Boulevadier (Biographies & Memoirs)

1 chapters — updated 08/11/2008 06:20PM

description: What happen to William BEFORE the wedding and waking up in the DITCH Saturday morning.

turning 21 (Biographies & Memoirs)

1 chapters — updated 06/15/2008 02:54PM

description: another entry from my blog about my father. thought i would post this since it is father's day.

MEMORIES OF MY FATHER (Nonfiction)

1 chapters — updated 04/14/2008 12:02PM

description: I STARTED A BLOG, ABOUT MY FATHER AFTER HE DIED TO CAPTURE THE MEMORIES AND FAMILY LORE OF MY FATHER AND MOTHER. I GOT ALOT OF SPAM COMMENTS IN 2005--SO I STOPPED. HERE IS MY FAVORITE STORY, INVOLVING, ON OF MY FATHER'S FAVORITE BOOKS. aT HIS FUNERAL I READ PASSAGES FROM HIS FAVORITE BOOKS, AND A POEM HE WORITE ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH. IN HIS 30' AND 40'S HE READ ALOT AND WROTE ALOT OF POETRY.

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True North — 183 members — last activity 7 minutes ago
To discuss important issues, book-related and not. To talk about the things that matter most to us, the things that get us up in the morning, the thin...more

Terminalcoffee — 147 members — last activity 13 minutes ago
A place to chat about anything...books, music, movies, culture, and anything else than emerges.

No one expects your allegiance to this group, and n...more

Axis Mundi X — 196 members — last activity 12 hours, 49 min ago
What is the Axis Mundi? In some cultures it is a sacred tree, or a mountain; pyramids or temples. Rock clefts or a plant. A house or a tower. Some...more

Star Trek — 23 members — last activity 1 day ago, 02:33PM
This is primarily a group for discussion of all Star Trek fiction, including the novels of all the series from TOS to Enterprise, the various relaunch...more

Watching The Detectives — 29 members — last activity 8 days ago, 03:36PM
Discussion Group For Noir, Crime and Detective Fiction both classic and modern.

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events Noran is attending

AWP Conference
February 13, 2009 03:00PM
Chicago Hilton, Continental B, Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, The United States
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2009awpconf.php
"Passing: The Writer's Skin & the Authentic Self"
Panel Presentation and readings on the theme of Passing as it relates to our writing, other works of literature, and our lives. Panel Participants: Jessica Treat (Goodreads author), Rilla Askew, Ely Shipley (Goodreads Poet), Tom Williams (GR author), Rob Stephenson.

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