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July 19
	Jess gave to: Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback) by David Sedaris	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Jess said: "really funny! It's a little hard to believe that all of these stories are non-fiction, though. " add a comment
	Jess gave to: The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback) by Joan Didion	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Jess said: "A memoir about the experience of becoming a widow. Depressing, a la Didion, but very humanistic; strikes a node somewhere. " add a comment
April 13
	Jess gave to: White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo	my rating:
	read in April, 2008 Jess said: "suburban dystopia par excellence. I can relate to the feeling of eerie comfort encountered in supermarkets. And also the portrayal of academics. " add a comment
April 06
	Jess gave to: The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon	my rating:
	read in January, 2006 Jess said: "Classic. W.A.S.T.E. Makes me want to start my own DIY mail service, every time I read it. Seriously, why hasn't anyone tried to do that? I want to start a bicycle-powered delivery service in which you can deliver beer and pizzas to your friends acros...more " add a comment
	Jess gave to: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback) by David Foster Wallace	my rating:
	read in March, 2008 Jess said: "I admit I've been on a DFW kick these days (which should make Seth really happy). Anyway, these are essays. I've never been a fan of Wallace's 'treatise-type' non-fiction - he always comes across as pretentious, which maybe he is. I read part of the ...more " see all 1 comments
	Jess gave to: The Broom of the System (Paperback) by David Foster Wallace	my rating:
	read in April, 2008 Jess said: "Having read Infinite Jest, I was really surprised to find that Broom of the System is an extremely accessible and readable book. Anyone with an aversion to Wallace's extreme footnote problem should try reading this - there are no footnotes, and it's ...more " add a comment
	Jess gave to: The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Paperback) by David Simon, Edward Burns	my rating:
	read in March, 2008 Jess said: "David Simon, creator of the TV shows Homicide and The Wire, wrote this very solid piece of journalism a number of years ago describing life as viewed from a West Baltimore corner. He follows a number of characters - aging touts and young drug dealers...more " add a comment
February 29
	Jess gave to: Watchmen (Paperback) by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons	my rating:
	read in January, 2008 Jess said: "I don't read graphic novels that often, but this one came to me highly recommended so I thought I'd give it a whirl. It is pretty amazing; the drawings are great, and the Cold War/nuclear apocalypse story is riveting. It does come across as a bit dat...more " add a comment
February 03
	Jess gave to: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Paperback) by Haruki Murakami	my rating:
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February 02
	Jess gave to: Anna Karenina (Paperback) by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky	my rating:
	read in December, 2007 Jess said: "Oprah knows a lot of useful things, like for example, how to hang curtains correctly and what kind of appetizers go best with dry white wine. She also wields a certain unique power over American society by which she can not only convince people that...more " add a comment

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