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	09/20 James is currently reading: The Robots of Dawn (Robot 3) by Isaac Asimov bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	09/03 James is currently reading: Sermons and Soda-Water (Paperback) by John O'Hara bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	09/03 James is currently reading: Tender Buttons (Paperback) by Gertrude Stein bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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September 20
	James is currently reading: The Robots of Dawn (Robot 3) by Isaac Asimov bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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September 04
	James gave to: 10 lb Penalty (Paperback) by Dick Francis	my rating:
	read in September, 2008 James said: "I like Dick Francis books a lot. The characters are always interesting and easy to identify with. His stories rush along and keep you guessing. 10 lb penalty was no different. Good stuff. " add a comment
	James gave to: Finnegans Wake (Paperback) by James Joyce	my rating:
	read in September, 2008 James said: "I wish I could say something cool and smart about this book but I'm too exhausted to try. The book is breath-taking in every way but I don't think anyone, probably not even Joyce, can effectively link it all together or even identify the overall the...more " add a comment
September 03
	James is currently reading: Sermons and Soda-Water (Paperback) by John O'Hara bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	James gave to: Caribbean: A Novel (Paperback) by James A. Michener	my rating:
	read in September, 2008 James said: "You'd think that 667 pages on 600 years of Caribbean culture would be boring but it wasn't. It was a huge, epic work but worth the time. Michener is extremely good at historical fiction and that helped. I thought this was more interesting than &qu...more " add a comment
	James is currently reading: Tender Buttons (Paperback) by Gertrude Stein bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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August 31
	James gave to: Never Come Morning (Paperback) by Nelson Algren	my rating:
	James said: "Not Algren's best but still Algren. What I mean to say is that the story wasn't the best story I ever read but Algren's style, the dialogue, the prose, the pacing are all as good as any of his other books. I just thought the story itself was... Eh. " add a comment
August 15
	James gave to: Brideshead Revisited (Paperback) by Evelyn Waugh	my rating:
	James said: "I enjoyed this book. It was, for the most part, absorbing but I definitely had no trouble putting it down. The end irritated me a great deal. Waugh used religion to neatly wrap up the story and, at the end, I felt like I'd been force-fed C.S. Le...more " add a comment
	James gave to: The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition (Paperback) by Ernest Hemingway	my rating:
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