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Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More! (Paperback) by Kenneth C. Davis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Death Note, Volume 13 (Paperback) by Tsugumi Ohba bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Why Girls Can't Throw: ...and Other Questions You Always Wanted Answered (Paperback) by Mitchell Symons bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Plush You!: Lovable Misfit Toys to Sew and Stuff (Paperback) by Kristen Rask bookshelves: nonfiction-adult |
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Stupid Sock Creatures: Making Quirky, Lovable Figures from Cast-off Socks (Paperback) by John Murphy |
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Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More! (Paperback) by Kenneth C. Davis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Why Girls Can't Throw: ...and Other Questions You Always Wanted Answered (Paperback) by Mitchell Symons bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Explainer (Paperback) by Slate Magazine bookshelves: nonfiction-adult |
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recommended for: trivia buffs and news junkies
read in July, 2008 
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"The good people at Slate Magazine crack open the questions people have after the headlines hit and overall they really do a bang-up job with it. The only slightly annoying thing that stuck with me was that there seemed to be an undercurrent of Clinto...more
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A Dirty Job: A Novel (Hardcover) by Christopher Moore bookshelves: fiction-adult |
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recommended for: Readers of Douglas Adams and Tom Robbins
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"Moore's particular brand of wry humor couldn't be applied to a more appropriate subject than the biggest cosmic joke of all: Death. Charlie Asher, a poster boy for Beta Males everywhere, simultaneously falls into the unlikely side profession of death...more
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Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus Trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud bookshelves: juvenile |
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The Somnambulist (Hardcover) by Jonathan Barnes bookshelves: fiction-adult |
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Evil Genius (Hardcover) by Catherine Jinks bookshelves: to-read |
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Susan's favorite quotes
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle
— Madeleine L'Engle
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
— David Byrne
— David Byrne
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"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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love
186 people liked it
"I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."
— Mae West
— Mae West
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Anyone who likes Shakespeare and wants to discuss about his plays can join!
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For anyone remotely interested and versed in Russian literature, history and culture. Love Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Nabokov?...more
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Hey Susan, you've written a review for every book you've read. That's great! Do you want a FREE web page where you can e-mail the link to Publishers? I'll make you up one. All publishers send FREE advance copies of their books to librarians and review writers so they can get good book reviews advertising their books.
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