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June 07
	Jason gave to: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson	my rating:
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May 15
	Jason gave to: How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table (Hardcover) by Russ Parsons	my rating:
	read in May, 2009 Jason said: "Not quite a cookbook and not quite a complete taxonomy, this book gives a rough overview of where we get most of our modern food from (California, apparently), how it got that way, how to cook it and when it's in season. I didn't like the fact that ...more " add a comment
May 04
	Jason gave to: Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays (Hardcover) by David Foster Wallace	my rating:
	read in May, 2009 Jason said: "In light of DFW's suicide, it's hard not to read these essays without a - possibly totally false - feeling of the authors profound sadness. It's almost as if everything he wrote was sort of an exhausted "Has it really, at long last, come to thi...more " add a comment
	Jason gave to: Gateway (Heechee Saga 1) by Frederik Pohl	my rating:
	read in May, 2009 Jason said: "I'm slowly learning that Pohl is hit or miss. I love "The Cool War", but this left me irked. Maybe it's supposed to leave me wanting more (it is, after all, Volume 1), but I felt mostly unresolved at the ending. It wasn't as... climactic...more " add a comment
April 12
	Jason gave to: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt	my rating:
	read in April, 2009 Jason said: "Excellent book about driving, cars, and people. Only failed to explain the near ubiquitous "chin-in-hand-thing" I see all the young men do these days. " add a comment
February 21
	Jason gave to: Noise (Hardcover) by Bart Kosko	my rating:
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February 14
	Jason gave to: Arctic Drift (Dirk Pitt, #20) by Clive Cussler	my rating:
	read in February, 2009 Jason said: "More lightweight brain candy. Not that that's a bad thing. One of Cussler's better ones. " add a comment
	Jason gave to: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (Hardcover) by Dava Sobel	my rating:
	read in February, 2009 Jason said: "Light on science and long on intrigue, this short quick book chronicles (heh) the development of the first clocks accurate enough to aid in ship's navigation. I would have preferred a little more science. " add a comment
February 10
	Jason gave to: American Gods (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author)	my rating:
	read in February, 2009 Jason said: "I'm still not sure what I took away from this book. I usually really like Neil Gainman, but I was left feeling a little perplexed at the end; as if there were bunches of questions I still wanted answered. The book seems at times too pat, or too ope...more " add a comment
February 08
	Jason gave to: The Good Guy (Hardcover) by Dean Koontz	my rating:
	read in February, 2009 Jason said: "Airplane books are meant merely to pass the time in places you would rather not be. My Dad calls them "Flood Books". They don't require much beyond the ability to parse the printed word in an orderly fashion, and in return they somewhat o...more " add a comment