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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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This is the third time I've started it. Not because I 'couldn't get into it' or anything like that, more because I can't bear to have to put it down at all...


I'm just spellbound.

Woolf has been a dangling presence for me in the past however many ye... " Read more of this review »
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
" After a discussion of this play that went over 100 comments, a review seems at once superfluous and necessary to give greater exposure to an excellent conversation. One of the best things about Goodreads is that it provides a forum to hash out dis... " Read more of this review »
Broken Harbor by Tana French
" I crave family. Not my own poor, battered and scarred little nuclear one that raised me, the one that's settled into a comfortable but rather arms-length tapdance that I can't quite figure out how to consciously approach with the same depth of ins... " Read more of this review »
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My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
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The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
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The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
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Speedboat by Renata Adler
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The Immortalization Commission by John   Gray
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Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
as a kid i assumed punk & hardcore was an inherently right-wing music; from the safe confines of long island it seemed the nose-ringed & mohawked or shirtless & skinheaded were all about death and destruction and i naturally figured they'...more
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