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The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty
Metzger's Dog by Thomas Perry
" I was in kind of a rut with books, not really liking much that I read. This was especially true with audiobooks, where I really didn't like many of them that I have listened to recently. So I decided to go back to a modern classic, a book that I l... "
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Metzger's Dog by Thomas Perry
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Bossypants by Tina Fey
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Captured by Douglas E. Richards
Captured (The Prometheus Project, #2)
by Douglas E. Richards (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
Ross rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Orphans of the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
read in April, 2013
Ross rated a book 2 of 5 stars
The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
The Last Policeman
by Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author)
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Susanna Clarke
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Neil Gaiman
“Black as night, sweet as sin.”
Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

Andre Agassi
“Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement....”
Andre Agassi, Open

Robert A. Heinlein
“Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.”
Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Lois McMaster Bujold
“You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

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2013 Reading Challenge
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Ross has read 26 books toward his goal of 42 books.
 
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2011 Reading Challenge
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Ross has completed his goal of reading 50 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
 
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2012 Reading Challenge
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Ross has completed his goal of reading 52 books for the 2012 Reading Challenge!
 
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