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06/30
selena
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Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits (Paperback) by Jack Murnighan (Goodreads author) bookshelves: 2009, currently-reading |
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06/28
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback) by Patrick Süskind bookshelves: currently-reading |
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progress: "Taking a weird turn..." — 7 days ago, 01:07PM |
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06/13
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Trout Fishing In America (Paperback) by Richard Brautigan bookshelves: currently-reading |
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marked as to-read:
Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Belknap Press) by Vladislav M. Zubok bookshelves: to-read |
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Personal Effects: Dark Art (Hardcover) by J.C. Hutchins bookshelves: 2009, psychology |
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recommended to selena by:
Jordan Weisman
read in June, 2009
selena said:
"Zach Taylor is an art therapist recently employed at Brinkvale Psychiatric. He can be reached at (212) 629-1951. With a dark history of his own, he uses his gift for art to help the most troubled of patients. Which is why his boss gives him the case ...more
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| June 30 | ||
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Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits (Paperback) by Jack Murnighan (Goodreads author) bookshelves: 2009, currently-reading |
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| June 28 | ||
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback) by Patrick Süskind bookshelves: currently-reading |
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progress: "Taking a weird turn..." — 7 days ago, 01:07PM |
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| June 24 | ||
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gave Herland (Paperback) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman bookshelves: 2009, psychology |
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recommended for: feminists
read in June, 2009
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"Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a well known sociologist, novelist, lecturer and feminist. She is most well known for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” When reading a book, it is usually not important to understand the views and history of the...more
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Gamer Theory (Hardcover) by McKenzie Wark bookshelves: to-read |
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| June 15 | ||
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gave The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback) by Erving Goffman bookshelves: psychology |
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"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)
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"ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions."
— D.H. Lawrence
— D.H. Lawrence
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
"i am part of the sun as my eye is of me. that i am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea."
— D.H. Lawrence
— D.H. Lawrence
"if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. "
— Lewis Carroll
— Lewis Carroll
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