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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles by Darwin Holmstrom
I've actually read quite a few Idiot's Guide type things in my day, but I'm always way too embarrassed to post them on here. I'll admit that I read this, though, because it's been really helpful. If you really know fuck all about motorcycles but are...more
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Warlords of Crime by Gerald Posner
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Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
I LOVELOVELOVELOVED this book up until maybe like two thirds of the way through, at which point I just became very busy with other things and managed never to pick it up again. It's a good book, though, and someone with any motivation would remain en...more
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The Blue Cascade by Mike Scotti
Jessica and 5 other people liked Justin Evans's review of The Flamethrowers:
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
" Much of this book just isn't very good, indeed, it's quite bad. Much of this book is also great, not in the sense of 'very good,' but in the sense of Great American Novel. A more tech-savvy reviewer could insert a Venn diagram here, but I'm limite... " Read more of this review »
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
" Magnificent. No stunning poetic allegory like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato. Nothing like the hallucinatory brilliance of Dispatches. Just a straightforward slog that drops you into the bush with Bravo Company and propels you along until you... " Read more of this review »
Jessica wants to read
Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar
Jessica rated a book 4 of 5 stars
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
More of Jessica's books…
Isaiah Berlin
“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
Isaiah Berlin

Charles Baudelaire
“Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.”
Charles Baudelaire

Marcel Proust
“She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.”
Marcel Proust

William Blake
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
William Blake

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (sans guitar) (Professional & Technical)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
Description: let's get a few things clear here....
A Million Little Book Reports (Health, Mind & Body)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:32pm
Description: It's an addiction memoir. I haven't actually written it yet, because I'm still gathering my material by living through the agony and despair.
1 Goodreads Feedback — 11871 members — last activity 47 minutes ago
This is a place to give feedback about Goodreads. Feature ideas, bugs, or any other suggestion for improvement. The Goodreads staff monitors this grou...more
Groups_nophoto-25x33 Write, right, rites, reads — 29 members — last activity Jul 12, 2011 07:07pm
Discussions of authorship, attribution, social (networking) mores, authenticity, and sundry bookface complexities
Groups_nophoto-25x33 Literature Defined: Is Eric full of crap? — 47 members — last activity Nov 13, 2012 07:54pm
I have been fascinated by many of my friend's comments on why they like or dislike a book. I'm going to throw out a thesis for discussion: That modern...more
25157 The Middlemarching Band — 7 members — last activity Nov 22, 2009 06:45pm
Everyone around here who is not a GIGANTIC, totally out-of-it super-nerd LOSER is planning to start reading MIDDLEMARCH on-or-about November 1. Or, yo...more

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2011 Reading Challenge
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Jessica has completed her goal of reading 3 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
 
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