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June 11
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Jodi
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What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor (Hardcover)
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Jessica West
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Jodi
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Banned for Life (Paperback)
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D.R. Haney (Goodreads author)
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May 27
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Jodi
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Laura Rider's Masterpiece (Hardcover)
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Jane Hamilton
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Jodi
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The Song Is You: A Novel (Hardcover)
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Arthur Phillips (Goodreads author)
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read in May, 2009
Jodi said:
"If it weren’t for Christa’s rave review, I’d have never picked up The Song is You. See, I read Arthur Phillips’ Prague back in 2002 and was underwhelmed. After that I promptly forgot Arthur Phillip’s until Christa decided to read this lates...more
If it weren’t for Christa’s rave review, I’d have never picked up The Song is You. See, I read Arthur Phillips’ Prague back in 2002 and was underwhelmed. After that I promptly forgot Arthur Phillip’s until Christa decided to read this latest novel. I even warned her all sassy-like, “good luck, his first novel sucked” because I am a bitch.
And now that I’ve finished this book that my makes my heart shake and my palms sweat, I have to admit she was right. This book is charming and lovable.
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May 19
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Jodi
is currently reading:
Swallow Me Whole (Paperback)
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Nate Powell
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Jodi
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Do Not Deny Me: Stories (Paperback)
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Jean Thompson
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Jodi
gave  to:
Epileptic (Paperback)
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David B.
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Jodi said:
"When the Largehearted Boy proclaims that something is his all-time favorite ever, I run out and consume whatever that thing might be. That’s what fangirls do. I am still waiting for him to proclaim Michael Cera his all-time favorite Canadian ever, ...more
When the Largehearted Boy proclaims that something is his all-time favorite ever, I run out and consume whatever that thing might be. That’s what fangirls do. I am still waiting for him to proclaim Michael Cera his all-time favorite Canadian ever, but that’s beside the point.
The point here is that LHB proclaimed that David B’s Epileptic was his favorite graphic novel, even though it’s a memoir (why is it that graphic memoirs are always called graphic novels?). I’d have picked it up based on that endorsement alone, but the luck I’ve had reading graphic memoirs (see: Persepolis, Fun Home, and It’s a Bird) made me extra excited.
Holy crow! This is the kind of book that kicks your ass and ties your brain in a knot. It’s not for the faint of intellect or for those who cannot handle emotions laid bare.
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Jodi
gave  to:
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (Hardcover)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author)
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Jodi said:
"There is a sort of adage passed down from writing teacher to student, usually after workshopping a student story where the last paragraph involves the main character waking up only to discover the previous thirteen or twenty-three pages have all been...more
There is a sort of adage passed down from writing teacher to student, usually after workshopping a student story where the last paragraph involves the main character waking up only to discover the previous thirteen or twenty-three pages have all been a dream. Oftentimes there is an alarm clock involved.
The adage goes something like this: “Nobody cares about your dreams. Nobody wants to read about them. Knock it off with this dream nonsense.”
The problem with dreams is that they can mean anything and nothing. They’re tough to interpret and to really get the significance of the dream you often need a lot of information about the dreamer. Symbols in dreams are so incredibly specific to the dreamer that without that information it just seems, well, weird.
Knowing all this, reading the first volume of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, Preludes and Nocturnes was kind of tough. I cared roughly fifty-percent of the time, which seems about right. Because when someone tells me about a dream they had, I care for exactly half the amount of time it takes them to tell me the dream.
Read the rest on MN Reads.(less)
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Jodi
gave to:
Twin Study: Stories (Hardcover)
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Stacey Richter
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Jodi said:
"If I were independently wealthy I would buy hundreds of copies of Stacey Richter’s short story collection Twin Study so that I could pass them out to people who claim to not like short stories or not to read them.
“Here,” I would say...more
If I were independently wealthy I would buy hundreds of copies of Stacey Richter’s short story collection Twin Study so that I could pass them out to people who claim to not like short stories or not to read them.
“Here,” I would say. “Read this and then tell me how you don’t like short stories.” I am convinced this collection would win them over.
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