Andrew Ludke's Profile

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Unfamiliar Fishes

by Sarah Vowell

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May 08, 2011 04:02am

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Black Music

by Amiri Baraka

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Dec 11, 2010 05:55am

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In Search of the Blues

by Marybeth Hamilton

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Dec 11, 2010 05:54am

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Andrew Ludke is currently reading: Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell	My rating:
May 08, 2011 04:02am
Andrew Ludke added: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson	My rating:
Granted this is a particularly wide open subject, but this book is all over the place. I am constantly stopping to think how did we get so far off subject, but then a few pages later Bryson weaves it back into the tapestry of his primary tale.
May 07, 2011 06:05pm · see review
Andrew Ludke gave to: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett read in December, 2010	My rating:
This is a quick and fascinating read. As many of the member of GoodReads.com can probably attest a book can be an alluring object and book collecting can take many forms, but only in a few occasions does the obsession lead to outright theft. Having b...more
Dec 12, 2010 03:36pm · see review
Andrew Ludke gave to: Naked Girls Smoking Weed: Best of 420 Girls by Robert Griffin read in December, 2009	My rating:
I love to pull out books off my bookshelf to share with friends. A recent favorite located last Christmas at the Borders book store is "Naked Girls Smoking Weed" I like the book more for the story behind my finding it at the Mayhah NJ Boarders the w...more
Dec 12, 2010 03:28pm · see review
Andrew Ludke became a fan of Allison Hoover Bartlett
Dec 12, 2010 03:16pm · all of Andrew's favorite authors
Andrew Ludke is currently reading: Black Music by Amiri Baraka	My rating:
Dec 11, 2010 05:55am
Andrew Ludke is currently reading: In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton	My rating:
Dec 11, 2010 05:54am
Andrew Ludke is currently reading: How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) by Ross W. Duffin	My rating:
Dec 11, 2010 05:54am
Andrew Ludke is currently reading: River of No Return by Johnny Carrey	My rating:
Dec 11, 2010 05:54am
Andrew Ludke marked as to-read: Another Green World by Geeta Dayal	My rating:
Oct 11, 2010 02:30pm

More of Andrew's books…

“.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..”
― Steve Lopez, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

tags: friendship

177 people liked it

“There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.”
― Willie Nelson

tags: beer , humor

50 people liked it

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

tags: morbidity , photography

18 people liked it