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Aja is currently reading:

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

by Carl Sagan

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Aja is on page 101 of 384 of Pale Blue Dot Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan progress:	My rating:
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Aja gave to: Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Aja liked Madeleine's status update Madeleine is on page 124 of 560 of What Is the What
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Aja liked Margaret's status update Margaret is on page 440 of 528 of The Art of Fielding
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Aja liked Madeleine's review of Night of the Assholes: " I've spent most of my life in New Jersey, so I've probably encountered every type of asshole at least twice. Yeah, yeah, you all think you know something about something thanks to the intellectual wasteland of "The Jersey Shore" but that's just sc... " Read more of this review »
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Aja gave to: Edwin Booth: A Play in Two Acts by Lance Tait read in May, 2012	My rating:
A pretentious, weird, and useless play. So sad when its subject was such an interesting and multi-faceted historical figure.
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Aja gave to: Tinkers by Paul Harding read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Aja gave to: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes read in April, 2012	My rating:
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“My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.”
― Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

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“When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.”
― Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

28 people liked it

“I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.”
― Jonathan Lethem

1 person liked it