MetroOwl: 9/11/11

"It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it."

~ Lady Bird Johnson

to read

"A Complaint Free World" ~ Will Bowen
"A Cook's Tour" ~ Anthony Bourdain
"A Year in Japan" - Kate T. Williamson
"Acts of Faith" - Philip Caputo
"All Families Are Psychotic" - Douglas Coupland*
"Bangkok 8" - John Burdett
"Bangkok Haunts" - John Burdett
"Bangkok Tattoo" - John Burdett
"Being A Broad in Japan: Everything a Western Woman Needs To Survive and Thrive" - Caroline Pover & Ai Kawabe
"City of Glass: Doug Coupland's Vancouver" - Douglas Coupland*
"Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" - Gregory Maguire
"Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art" - Jennifer New
"Eleanor Rigby" - Douglas Coupland*
"Fresh Fruits" - Shoichi Aoki
"Fruits" - Shoichi Aoki
"Ganbatte Means Go for It! Or. . . How To Become an English Teacher in Japan" - Celeste Heiter
"GenXpat: The Young Professional's Guide To Making A Successful Life Abroad" - Margaret Malewski
"Getting Both Feet Wet: Experiences Inside The JET Program" - David Kootnikoff & David Chandler
"God Hates Japan" - Douglas Coupland*
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (7) - J.K. Rowling
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (4) - J.K. Rowling
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (6) - J.K. Rowling
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (5) - J.K. Rowling
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (3) - J.K. Rowling
"Hey Nostradamus!" - Douglas Coupland*
"Holy Cow" - Sarah Macdonald
"Horn of Africa" - Philip Caputo
"I Love You, Beth Cooper" - Larry Doyle
"Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program" - David L. McConnell
"Into the Wild" - Jon Krakauer
"Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa" - Karin Muller
"JPod" - Douglas Coupland*
"Killing Time" - Caleb Carr*
"Land of Marvels" ~ Barry Unsworth
"Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print, and How to Avoid Them" - Bill Walsh
"Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan" - Bruce Feiler*
"Lost" - Gregory Maguire
"Love is a Mix Tape" - Rob Sheffield
"Memoirs of a Geisha" - Arthur Golden
"Mirror Mirror" - Gregory Maguire
"Miss Wyoming" - Douglas Coupland*
"Motherless Brooklyn" - Jonathan Lethem
"Never Let Me Go" - Kazuo Ishiguro
"Not A Geisha: Being Young and Female in Japan" - Kimberly Palmer
"One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey" - Sam Keith
"Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs" - Joan Sinclair
"Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" - Azar Nafisi
"School Spirit" - Pierre Huyghe & Douglas Coupland*
"Son of a Witch" - Gregory Maguire
"Souvenir of Canada 2" - Douglas Coupland*
"Souvenir of Canada" - Douglas Coupland*
"Stranger in a Strange Land" - Robert A. Heinlein
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" - Mark Haddon
"The Gum Thief" - Douglas Coupland*
"The Horizon" ~ James Hilton
"The Immense Journey..." ~ Loren Eiseley
"The Italian Secretary" - Caleb Carr*
"The Kite Runner" - Khaled Hosseini
"The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life" - Steve Leveen
"The Namesake" - Jhumpa Lahiri
"The Remains of the Day" - Kazuo Ishiguro
"What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy" - Gregory Maguire
"Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" - Gregory Maguire
"Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing" - Patricia T. O'Conner
* I've read some of this author's work and recommend it.

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