~*stars upon thars*~: delocate yourself

Monday, June 16, 2008

delocate yourself

Just wanted to share this very cool website: Delocator. It helps you find locally run and owned bookstores, cafes, and movie theaters in your area, so you don't have to give all your money to The Man. Instead, you can keep it invested in your own community. Yay!

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	TITLE: Daughter of Fortune AUTHOR: Isabel Allende
	TITLE: How to Kill a Rock Star AUTHOR: Tiffanie deBartolo

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Unknown said...: best ever! I am going to share with all my friends! wheeeeee!; Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:41:00 AM

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GOAL: 10 Female Authors (in a row)

1. Cunt (Inga Muscio)
2. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
3. Swerve (Aisha Tyler)
4. Emma & Me (Elizabeth Flock)
5. Everybody into the Pool (Beth Lisick)
6. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
7. We Don't Need Another Wave (Melody Berger)
8. Best Friends (Martha Moody)
9. Rose of No Man's Land (Michelle Tea)
10. The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
11. Knitting Under the Influence (Claire LaZebnik)
12. The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
13. Are Men Necessary? (Maureen Dowd)
14. The Boy I Loved Before (Jenny Colgan)
15. Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City (Anne Thomas Soffee)
16. Manstealing for Fat Girls (Michelle Embree)
17. Same As It Never Was (Claire Scovell LaZebnik)
18. White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
19. Loyal to the Sky (Marisa Handler)
20. Harvesting the Heart (Jodi Picoult)
21. The Man of My Dreams (Curtis Sittenfeld)
22. The Exes (Pagan Kennedy)
23. Third Girl from the Left (Martha Southgate)
24. Manifesta (Jennifer Baumgarder & Amy Richards)
25. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
26. Give It Up!: My Year of Learning to Live Better With Less (Mary Carlomango)
27. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
28. Close to the Machine (Ellen Ullman)
29. More, Now, Again (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
30. Odd Girl Out (Rachel Simmons)
31. Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil (Inga Muscio)
32. Coloring Outside the Lines (Aimee Cooper)
33. Tales of a Female Nomad (Rita Golden Gelman)
34. The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood)
35. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
36. Look Both Ways (Jennifer Baumgardner)
37. Nickel & Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)
38. Come Back (Claire & Mia Fontaine)
39. An Idiot Girl's Christmas (Laurie Notaro)
40. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
41. Runaway (Alice Munro)
42. The Long Haul (Amanda Stern)
43. Full Frontal Feminism (Jessica Valenti)
44. A Good Yarn (Debbie Macomber)
45. The Whole World Over (Julia Glass)
46. The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
47. Radical Sanity (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
48. Away (Amy Bloom)
49. Kabul Beauty School (Deborah Rodriguez)
50. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
51. Knitting (Anne Bartlett)
52. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
53. Dematerializing (Jane Hammerslough)
54. The Good Body (Eve Ensler)
55. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
56. The Friday Night Knitting Club (Kate Jacobs)
57. What Girls Learn (Karin Cook)
58. Drinking: A Love Story (Caroline Knapp)
59. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
60. How to Meet Cute Boys (Deanna Kizis)
61. How to Kill a Rock Star (Tiffanie deBertolo)
62. Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
63. Daughter of Fortune (Isabel Allende)
64. Lost On Purpose: Women in the City (Amy Prior)
65. The Knitting Circle (Ann Hood)
66. The Brambles (Eliza Minot)
67. Mating in Captivity (Esther Perel)
68. The Bug (Ellen Ullman)
69. Consuming Kids (Susan Linn)

(see here for original working list)