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	06/05 BeckyTalbot is currently reading: Awakenings (Paperback) by Oliver W. Sacks bookshelves: currently-reading, northpark	my rating:
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	05/25 BeckyTalbot is currently reading: Confessions (Nelson's Royal Classics) by Augustine of Hippo bookshelves: currently-reading, northpark	my rating:
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	05/01 BeckyTalbot is currently reading: The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters (Paperback) by Gay Talese bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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July 07
	BeckyTalbot marked as to-read: Wise Blood: A Novel (Paperback) by Flannery O'Connor bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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June 25
	BeckyTalbot gave to: A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover) by Lorraine Hansberry	my rating:
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June 10
	BeckyTalbot gave to: A Kind of Alaska (Paperback) by Harold Pinter	my rating:
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	BeckyTalbot gave to: When We Dead Awaken (Paperback) by Henrik Johan Ibsen	my rating:
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June 01
	BeckyTalbot marked as to-read: Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library) by Apuleius bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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May 26
	BeckyTalbot marked as to-read: Gilead (Hardcover) by Marilynne Robinson bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	BeckyTalbot gave to: Housekeeping: A Novel (Paperback) by Marilynne Robinson	my rating:
	read in May, 2008 BeckyTalbot said: "There is a mysterious quality about this book-- something mystical in the way Robinson writes. At times, I felt that this mysticism did not quite fit Ruthie's character, that it was more Marilynne Robinson's viewpoints than Ruthie's supposed observa...more " add a comment
May 23
	BeckyTalbot marked as to-read: The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits (Paperback) by John McKnight bookshelves: northpark, to-read	my rating:
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May 21
	BeckyTalbot marked as to-read: The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (Paperback) by John Steinbeck bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	BeckyTalbot marked as to-read: The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories (Paperback) by John Steinbeck bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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BeckyTalbot's favorite quotes

"... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you."
— Nelson Algren

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"...to forge, out of steel and blood-red neon, its own peculiar wilderness. "
— Nelson Algren

tags: urban

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