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	07/24 Jim is currently reading: Generation Kill (Paperback) by Evan Wright bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	07/12 Jim is currently reading: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (Hardcover) by Stanley Plumly bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	07/09 Jim is currently reading: Standing In Line for the Beast (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Jason Bredle bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry	my rating:
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July 24
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July 12
	Jim is currently reading: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (Hardcover) by Stanley Plumly bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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July 24
	Jim installed the Goodreads Facebook Application
July 09
	Jim is currently reading: Standing In Line for the Beast (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Jason Bredle bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry	my rating:
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July 07
	Jim added a quote: ""Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." " — William Butler Yeats add this quote »
July 06
	Jim gave to: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback) by David Simon bookshelves: favoritebooks, randomreads	my rating:
	Jim said: "Somewhat perversely, this book makes me wish I went to police academy and worked my way up to homicide detective (then again, Simon's afterword tells us that things ain't what they used to be). This is a warts-and-all look at a year in Baltimore's ho...more " add a comment
July 03
	Jim gave to: Alfred and Guinevere (New York Review Books Classics) by James Schuyler bookshelves: randomreads	my rating:
	Jim said: "Fans of Schuyler's poetry (and J.D. Salinger's short stories) might enjoy this short novel about brother and sister from the city who spend a summer at their Uncle's in the 'burbs. What's For Dinner? seems like a more fully-formed work (whatever that...more " add a comment
June 25
	Jim is currently reading: Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Hardcover) by Helen Vendler bookshelves: currently-reading, grad-school-tastic, poetry	my rating:
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June 22
	Jim gave to: The Happy Birthday of Death (Paperback) by Gregory Corso bookshelves: currently-reading, grad-school-tastic, poetry	my rating:
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Jim's favorite quotes

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life

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"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth

154 people liked it

""Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." "
— William Butler Yeats

29 people liked it

"I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is..."
— Frank O'Hara

3 people liked it

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For the booklover who reads four or five books at a time, buys just as many at a time and who changes books like he/she changes his/her clothing. If ...more

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