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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
The Middlesteins
by Jami Attenberg (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
This book was so good that I had to keep taking pictures of passages with my phone because I didn't want to put the book down long enough to write the stuff I liked down.
Sam rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Sam is on page 500 of 650 of Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall
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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Beautiful Ruins
by Jess Walter
read in April, 2013
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Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
Sam rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar by Kelly Oxford
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Joan Didion
“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays

Franz Kafka
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
Franz Kafka

David Foster Wallace
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Ernest Hemingway
“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

David Foster Wallace
“I have this -- here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief that art is just absolutely magic. And that good art can do things that nothing else in the solar system can do. And that the good stuff will survive, and get read, and that in the great winnowing process, the shit will sink and the good stuff will rise.”
David Foster Wallace


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2013 Reading Challenge
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