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David gave 3 of 5 stars to:
A Birder's Guide to Montgomery County Maryland by Friedland, Linda
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A second edition was published in 2008.
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Lost Washington, D.C. by John DeFerrari
Lost Washington, D.C.
by John DeFerrari (Goodreads Author)
read in January, 2012
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Vignette-length stories (3-5 pages) of built D.C. either lost, like the Raleigh Hotel, or merely transformed, as in the case of the Childs restaurant on Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. or the Chevy Chase Ice Palace. Not a guidebook, exactly, compared to ...more
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Physics on the Fringe by Margaret Wertheim
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The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
Stone Arabia
by Dana Spiotta
read in December, 2011
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Triangle by David von Drehle
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The French Revolution by William Doyle
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Another nourishing snack-size work of history.
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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Time for a reread since college.
More of David's books…
Samuel Beckett
“Yes, light, there is no other word for it.”
Samuel Beckett

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“Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
George Orwell

“Gomo rim jambo.”
Larry Shue

T.S. Eliot
“Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.”
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

David Mamet
“I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there. ”
David Mamet


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