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Secret Lives of Grea... 07/21 Lindsay is currently reading:
Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights (Paperback)
by Robert Schnakenberg
bookshelves: biographyautobiographymemoir, currently-reading
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The Metamorphosis 07/21 Lindsay gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by Franz Kafka
bookshelves: books-used-in-school, currently-reading, reread-ing
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recommended for: existential divas
read in February, 1999

Lindsay Lindsay said: "This--WHACK!--is a bug.

Only Julie would get this.
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The God Delusion 07/06 Lindsay is currently reading:
The God Delusion (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author!)
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Practical Magic Lindsay gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
Practical Magic (Paperback)
by Alice Hoffman
bookshelves: books-used-in-school
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recommended for: beach read witchy books
read in May, 2004

Lindsay Lindsay said: "This was the lighter book used to wrap up my all time favorite undergrad course, "Feminism & Witchcraft" (how very liberal arts, oui?). All I really remember is that I enjoyed it--it was a good "beach" read and MUCH, MUCH bet...more "
Weetzie Bat Lindsay gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Weetzie Bat (Paperback)
by Francesca Lia Block
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recommended for: whimsical types
read in April, 2004
Saints and Strangers Lindsay marked as to-read:
Saints and Strangers (King Penguin)
by Angela Carter
bookshelves: shortstories, to-read
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Nights at the Circus Lindsay marked as to-read:
Nights at the Circus (Paperback)
by Angela Carter
bookshelves: to-read
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July 22
Here, There and Ever... Lindsay marked as to-read:
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles (Hardcover)
by Geoff Emerick, Howard Massey
bookshelves: music, to-read
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recommended to Lindsay by: Erin
July 21
Secret Lives of Grea... Lindsay is currently reading:
Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights (Paperback)
by Robert Schnakenberg
bookshelves: biographyautobiographymemoir, currently-reading
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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July 19
Fahrenheit 451 Lindsay gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury
bookshelves: books-used-in-school, yalitapproximately
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read in July, 2008

Lindsay Lindsay said: "My class read 1984 as a parallel to other classes reading Fahrenheit 451 when I was in high school, and until I've missed out on Ray Bradbury. I'm still forming an opinion--I think I'm somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. I agree with Jul...more "
July 08
Quote_tiny Lindsay added a quote:
"A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?"Ray Bradbury
5110zit8xml New comment on Dan's review of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights
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July 06
Mudbound Lindsay marked as to-read:
Mudbound (Hardcover)
by Hillary Jordan (Goodreads author!)
bookshelves: to-read
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Lindsay's favorite quotes

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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
Oscar Wilde

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""We read to know that we are not alone.""
C.S. Lewis

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"'What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.'"
Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

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"[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer....
'And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
'I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.'"
Elie Wiesel (Night (Oprah's Book Club))

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"What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?"
Allen Ginsberg (Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series))




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from Meghan
04/21/2008 11:09AM

Nophoto-f-50x66 Lindsay Lou ... I love reading your reviews and spying on your habits. And now you have introduced me to the Groups option -- holy shit, more ways to wrangle away the hours on GoodReads!! Love to you --

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