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	09/28 Abbie is currently reading: Wonder Boys (Paperback) by Michael Chabon bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	09/25 Abbie gave to: Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback) by John Storey bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	Abbie said: "I'm going to make cheese. " 1 comment
	03/11 Abbie is currently reading: Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective (Paperback) by Rosabeth Moss Kanter bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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September 28
	Abbie marked as to-read: Parched (Paperback) by Heather King bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Abbie gave to: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover) by Barbara Kingsolver	my rating:
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September 25
	Abbie added: Functions Modeling Change: A Preparation for Calculus (Paperback) by Eric Connally	my rating:
	Abbie said: "I wish I was kidding about this one. I will NEVER use this math again. " add a comment
	Abbie gave to: Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback) by John Storey bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	Abbie said: "I'm going to make cheese. " 1 comment
April 01
	Abbie gave to: Atonement (Paperback) by Ian McEwan	my rating:
	read in April, 2008 Abbie said: "I read the first half on a plane from Newark to Portland. I can't stop thinking about it. What ever shall happen to poor Robbie and Cecilia? I must know... I've finished it. Parts one and two I liked, but I think the resolution was pretty lame. ...more " add a comment
March 26
	Abbie marked as to-read: Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community (Paperback) by Heather C. Flores bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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March 11
	Abbie marked as to-read: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback) by James Howard Kunstler bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Abbie gave to: Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (Paperback) by John Zerzan	my rating:
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	Abbie is currently reading: Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective (Paperback) by Rosabeth Moss Kanter bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Abbie marked as to-read: Reinventing Community: Stories from the Walkways of Cohousing (Paperback) by David Wann bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

692 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy

561 people liked it

""A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.""
— Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books

52 people liked it

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. "
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (The Sirens of Titan)

22 people liked it

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