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Aurorarama
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recommended for: McNally Jackson
read in June, 2013

oriana oriana said: "I feel like this happens to me a lot, but I found this book (which I've been wanting to read forever) in a box on the curb near my apartment, which box was otherwise full of computer coding manuals and broken picture frames and ugly shoes. I think so...more "

 
Nevada
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by Imogen Binnie (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
read in March, 2013

 
Rage Is Back
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by Adam Mansbach (Goodreads Author)
read in February, 2013

oriana oriana said: "I had pretty much dismissed this guy as a doofus after the idiotic Go the Fuck to Sleep took off like goddamn wildfire. But OMG how good does this book sound?? Plus check out this terrific & heartbreaking piece he wrote for the Awl about New York...more "

 

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oriana rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
Woke Up Lonely
by Fiona Maazel (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
So look, Amazon bought Goodreads so they could turn us all into data and capture the elusive beast "discoverability" (a beast in large part created because all the goddamn bookstores were driven out of business by, um, Amazon). Which makes me kind of...more
oriana rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
I don't like David Sedaris. And I distrust "funny" books the same way I distrust sitcoms with laugh-tracks, because it's condescending and discourages thinking for yourself. I don't need to be told when to laugh, okay? If I think something is funny,...more
oriana rated a book 3 of 5 stars
A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn
A Guide for the Perplexed
by Dara Horn
read in June, 2013
Here is a short list that should tell you everything I think about this book:

1. I got it at BEA.

2. I carried it around during like the wettest two weeks ever, even in a derecho, and it is pretty well destroyed.

3. I finished it at the park, lying in...more
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Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Aurorarama (The Mysteries of New Venice, #1)
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
recommended for: McNally Jackson
read in June, 2013
I feel like this happens to me a lot, but I found this book (which I've been wanting to read forever) in a box on the curb near my apartment, which box was otherwise full of computer coding manuals and broken picture frames and ugly shoes. I think so...more
oriana rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan
before reading
I would like to submit this as Exhibit A for the failure of traditional publishing to redress issues of sexism, not to mention shooting itself in its stupid foot and being appallingly condescending to one of its strongest demographics....more
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"Cool! It's good so far (about halfway through). Not at all the kind of book I usually read, but I'm into it."
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