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Jen is currently reading:

Hitch-22: A Memoir

by Christopher Hitchens

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Jen is on page 42 of 448 of Hitch-22 Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens progress:	My rating:
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Jen gave to: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides read in December, 2011	My rating:
When reading authors I've already read, I'm careful to treat each book as its own entity. I didn't expect The Marriage Plot to be Middlesex, but I expected it to be at least as good. Though well-written, I found it incredibly boring and I struggled t...more
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Jen gave to: Bossypants by Tina Fey read in April, 2011	My rating:
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Jen added: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2) by Bryan Lee O'Malley read in January, 2011	My rating:
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Jen added: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen read in December, 2010	My rating:
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Jen added: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1) by Bryan Lee O'Malley	My rating:
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“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add

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“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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