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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
by Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
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| I read Jenny Lawson's blog (The Blogess) often. Well, often for me. I suck at keeping up with blogs, even my own. That's why I'm so glad I read this book. Lawson is absolutely hilarious, and has a power that I don't - which is to look back on her chi...more | |
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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“Denial-it's the glue barely holding millions of American families together.”
― Drew Ferguson, The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second
― Drew Ferguson, The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
My sudden realization (Nonfiction)
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updated Oct 20, 2009 12:20pm
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A short essay on my reading life.
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