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Don't know if you were looking for book suggestions to get your last two in, but I just read Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk yesterday in < 3 hours. It's funny and entertaining, goes by fast. Or Brian Selznick's books The Invention of Hugo Cabret or Wonderstruck - terrific, thick, but mostly pictures :) Have you read The Awakening by Kate Chopin? Short, an early feminist classic, and available in the Dover Thrift series so it's $2-3. 

Re: New Year's Eve - Jen has spent the last several of them in Colorado with her family while I came home to work the week after Christmas - so I've either been alone, or getting drunk on the couch with a friend. I don't think we've ever done anything romantic. She's home this year, but pregnant and will probably be asleep by 10:00p. Guess we are saving our romantic, live-it-up NYE for retirement? :-) 

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    Thanks for the recommendations!  I have a tendency to choose long (and/or slow) books, which doesn't help my goal.  Right now I am reading (almost done with) Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, which is a dense, weird 400 pages.  At least I didn't go for Mason & Dixon, which is 784 pages and also sitting on my shelf.  I haven't read it because I mostly read on the subway and M&D doesn't fit in my work bag. :)  Anyway, I'm always happy for short recommendations.  I have read The Awakening, but not in a while.  Probably have it around somewhere.

    My strategy with the next couple of days is actually cookbooks.  I get them out of the library and I do "read" them, which means I go through them page by page, read intros of recipes and skim recipes I might want to make.  The goal is really to "review" the cookbook enough to see if I want to buy it, which is an antidote to my desire to buy every cookbook I see.  At any rate it goes a lot more quickly than reading solid text.  I just got a new one tonight that I think will be good.

    My sister is single and all of her friends are married, which is hard on NYE, so we usually have her over (or bring her with us).  That cuts back on the romance a bit, too!  Glad we're not the only lame ones.  I say we all meet up on a NYE Olivia cruise in 25 years when our kids are having their own fun.

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