I'm Gonna Post Here All The Time-I Swear!

thanks to search function i even know what i was reading in 2003:

Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
Norwood - Charles Portis ( talk about comic!! )
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud
The Pursuit of Love & Love In A Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
Coda - Thea Astley
Criers&Kibitzers,Kibitzers&Criers - Stanley Elkin (featuring A Poetics For Bullys, one of the great american short stories of the 20th century)
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Waiting Period - Hubert Selby, Jr
Up In The Air - Walter Kirn
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
The Wedding Group - Elizabeth Taylor (no, not that elizabeth taylor)
East Of Wimbledon - Nigel Williams ( i picked this up at the thrift store. i thought it was funny. i have no idea what his rep is like in the u.k. is he hated? i don't think any of his books have even been published here, but i could be wrong )
The Whore's Child & other Stories - Richard Russo
Reasons To Live - Amy Hempel
Almost Heaven - Marianne Wiggins
Nine Horses - Billy Collins
The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden

early ilb claim to fame here. linked to all over the 2004 internet and mentioned in the guardian:

Summarise a Novel in 25 Words

come back mikey g, all is forgiven!

happy birthday. you did it. they said it couldn't be done. with no help from me for the last...however long. i'm sending you all nerd medals.

🥳

ILB still not old enough to legally purchase liquor. :(

Never found anywhere online with better bookchat than here

We are doing so much better than the competition

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing

Almost Heaven - Marianne Wiggins

My man.

i'm just happy that people are still sharing here after 20 years. you guys give me lots of good tips! somehow ilx keeps ticking.