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	08/29 Amanda is currently reading: Three Soldiers (Penguin Classics) by John Dos Passos bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	08/26 Amanda is currently reading: The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation (Paperback) by Diane Ravitch bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	08/25 Amanda is currently reading: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack (Paperback) by Neal Pollack bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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August 29
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	Amanda is currently reading: The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation (Paperback) by Diane Ravitch bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Amanda gave to: Concise Anthology of American Literature (Paperback) by George McMichael, James Leonard	my rating:
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	Amanda is currently reading: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack (Paperback) by Neal Pollack bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Amanda gave to: Shadowland (Paperback) by Peter Straub	my rating:
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August 21
	Amanda gave to: Celebration (Paperback) by Harry Crews	my rating:
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August 19
	Amanda gave to: Man in White (Hardcover) by Johnny Cash	my rating:
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	Amanda is currently reading: Rules of Thumb: 73 Authors Reveal Their Fiction Writing Fixations (Hardcover) by Susan Neville bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Amanda gave to: The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy	my rating:
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	Amanda gave to: Suttree (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy	my rating:
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Amanda's favorite quotes

"The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us."
— Steve Almond (Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America)

tags: first-sentence, freaks

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"She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
— Flannery O'Connor (A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories)

tags: humor

16 people liked it

"That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night. -- A Feast of Snakes"
— Harry Crews

4 people liked it

"Actually I dont know if it ever works out unless you are standing in the middle of the street and dont see the ten-ton truck coming and this good guy pushes you out of the way and says its for your own good."
— Russell Banks

tags: rule-of-the-bone

2 people liked it

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