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Athena is currently reading:

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Athena said: "I left my copy on a plane on accident so didn't finish reading...let me borrow yours!"

progress: — Jan 11, 2011 12:35pm

Jul 30, 2011 12:32pm · see review

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Best Music Writing 2010

by Ann Powers

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Athena said: "Nikki Darling is my hero."

Nov 22, 2010 03:39pm · see review

Athena gave

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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Jul 27, 2010 08:29am

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Athena marked as to-read: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins	My rating:
Feb 05, 2012 08:33pm
Athena gave to: Just Kids by Patti Smith read in February, 2012	My rating:
Feb 05, 2012 08:29pm
Athena marked as to-read: It Must've Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten	My rating:
Jan 10, 2012 01:58pm
Athena marked as to-read: Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer	My rating:
Jan 06, 2012 11:19am
Athena gave to: Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer	My rating:
Jan 06, 2012 11:18am
Athena gave to: The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson	My rating:
did you know that lobsters have two peni?
Jan 06, 2012 11:16am · see review
Athena gave to: Nobody Move by Denis Johnson	My rating:
Jan 04, 2012 07:42pm
Athena gave to: The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle	My rating:
Jan 04, 2012 09:24am
Athena liked heather's review of The Thing Itself: " The book-cover summary above does not do this book justice. I imagine a lot of people might read The Thing Itself and claim, "This book isn't about anything!" But it is. It's a meditation in several expository essays in which Todd explor... " Read more of this review »
Nov 09, 2011 05:40pm · see review
Athena gave to: The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity by Richard Todd	My rating:
Nov 09, 2011 05:38pm

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Quotes Athena Likes

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

81 people liked it

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: life , poetry

370 people liked it

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: neurosis

730 people liked it

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: stoppard

168 people liked it