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Amanda's knock-your-socks-off shelf

Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Krazy and Ignatz, 1929-1930 by George Herriman

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda is currently reading:

American Subversive

by David Goodwillie (Goodreads Author)

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May 11, 2012 07:58am

Amanda gave

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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)

by James Joyce

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read in August, 2005

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Amanda said: "I don't care if it makes me pretentious, I love this book.

I started reading it while I was still living in Dublin. That summer the library in Dublin had an exhibit in the basement with some of Joyce's papers and other things because it was the annive...more "

Mar 12, 2012 05:56am · see review

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Amanda is currently reading: American Subversive by David Goodwillie (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Amanda gave to: The Ask by Sam Lipsyte (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda added: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda added: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons by Brian K. Vaughan read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda added: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth by Brian K. Vaughan read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda added: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland by Brian K. Vaughan read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda gave to: The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda gave to: The Middlesteins: A Novel by Jami Attenberg (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda added: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword by Brian K. Vaughan read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Amanda added: Flatscreen: A Novel by Adam Wilson read in April, 2012	My rating:
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