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By PIPER JONES CASTILLO
Published January 21, 2007
Before Paula Poundstone's appearance Friday at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, we caught up with the comedian and author of There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say. Q: What's on your nightstand? I read four or five books at once, mostly geared towards my kids' reading, but the adult book on my nightstand is Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks. Do you recommend it? I recommend it, but it might make you cry over the Iraq situation. Do you have a particular book that has stayed with you? When I was in kindergarten, my teacher, Mrs. Bump, read The Five Chinese Brothers, and it has stayed my all-time favorite . . . because it was so weird, especially the illustration of the one brother getting stretched. Piper Jones Castillo, Times staff writer
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