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	07/04 Amy is currently reading: Windy City: A Novel of Politics (Hardcover) by Scott Simon bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	07/04 Amy is currently reading: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover) by Clay Shirky bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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July 04
	Amy is currently reading: Windy City: A Novel of Politics (Hardcover) by Scott Simon bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	recommended to Amy by: Katherine add a comment
	Amy is currently reading: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover) by Clay Shirky bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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June 07
	Amy gave to: Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (Paperback) by Larry Tye	my rating:
	read in June, 2009 1 comment
May 25
	Amy marked as to-read: The Funniest One in the Room: The Lives and Legends of Del Close (Hardcover) by Kim Howard Johnson bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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May 12
	Amy marked as to-read: Impossible H. L. Mencken, The (Paperback) by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Amy gave to: Fraud (Paperback) by David Rakoff	my rating:
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	Amy gave to: Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems (Paperback) by David Rakoff	my rating:
	recommended for: the cynical, the baffled, the wry read in May, 2009 Amy said: "Please read this. Just trust me. " add a comment
May 05
	Amy read and liked Jim's review of HO!: "Ivan Brunetti has dropped more jaws than you've had hot meals. His one-panel cartoons cross so many borders of taste, decency, and sanity that it's worth having a copy of this book just to remind yourself that you haven't seen it all. Most highly r...more " add a comment
May 04
	Amy gave to: True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Hardcover) by Farhad Manjoo	my rating:
	recommended to Amy by: Jim read in May, 2009 Amy said: "Manjoo has written a well researched little guide on how our perspectives and biases shape the way we understand news and, increasingly, the news we seek out. But I finished the book only mildly satisfied by his theories. " add a comment
April 25
	Amy marked as to-read: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Paperback) by David Foster Wallace bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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Gapers Block Book Club — 24 members — last activity 23 days ago, 03:09PM
The official book club of Gapers Block, a Chicago-centric webzine. We read fiction by local authors and nonfiction books about Chicago.

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