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05/25
Jimmy
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Tropic of Cancer (Paperback) by Henry Miller bookshelves: currently-reading |
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04/27
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The Midnight (Paperback) by Susan Howe (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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03/14
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Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Jimmy
gave The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene |
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Jimmy made a comment in the group 50 Books A Year—Jimmy's List topic:
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gave Summer Blonde (Paperback) by Adrian Tomine |
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recommended to Jimmy by:
p.c. atl
read in June, 2009
Jimmy said:
"Summer blonde, some are not blonde, and some just fantasize about blondes. There's too much teen angst and white-boy self pity in these pages for me to really be very enthusiastic about it. All four protagonists are losers who are just creepy or bi...more
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gave Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth Hardwick |
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read in June, 2009
Jimmy said:
"A serious, melancholy book about memories, of people and places passing through the night. Sad lives. Excellent language, at times a little on the cerebral side, sounding almost like a series of prose poems, or personal essays.
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gave Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser |
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Jimmy
read and liked
Sara Hacker's
review of A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics):
"This book is #71 on the Modern American Library's list of 100 best novels. My friend Borden gave this book to me because I told him I liked pirates (Johnny Depp). Although the pirates were not anything like Captain Jack Sparrow, this book was captiv...more " | |||
"Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity: A Revised and Enlarged Edition, With a New Introduction, of the Three Books the Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality)
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity: A Revised and Enlarged Edition, With a New Introduction, of the Three Books the Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality)
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Revelations (Poetry)
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updated 12/12/2008 11:16AM
description:
Early poem. Originally published in the Indiana Review
Negatives (Poetry)
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updated 12/12/2008 11:16AM
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Early poem. First published in the Sonora Review
Grapes (Poetry)
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updated 12/12/2008 11:15AM
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very early poem. First published in Samsara Quarterly
Anne Carson's Plainwater: A Review (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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updated 12/09/2008 07:25AM
description:
A creative-review. First published in Can We Have Our Ball Back?
Hotel (excerpts) (Poetry)
More of Jimmy's writing…
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updated 12/06/2008 06:57AM
description:
Excerpts from a 10 part poem. Parts 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 of the series are included, as published in The Grove Review. The original poem appears in my as yet unpublished book "The Sea is White"
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