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09/18
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Ball four: My life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues (Unknown Binding) by Jim Bouton bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Paperback) by David Sedaris |
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recommended for: People serious about serious literature
Jen said:
"If you love literature, you will love this carefully chosen collection of short stories. Gripping, challenging, heartbreaking - this is a must-read for fellow nerds everywhere.
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Rebecca's
review of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules:
"This is a compilation of David Sedaris' favorite short stories by literary greats such as Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor and Dororthy Parker, just to name a few. With a crowd like this, you can expect stories that will leave you ever so slightly unse...more " | |||||||||||
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Ball four: My life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues (Unknown Binding) by Jim Bouton bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Here Lies the Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker (Hardcover) by Dorothy Parker |
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read in September, 2008
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"If you can't appreciate Dorothy Parker, you may in fact be dead inside.
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liked a trivia question:
How is The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (Official Edition) inconsistent with what we now know about early North American history and anthropology? see if you know the answer » | |||||||||||
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Renee's
review of Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather:
"People either love this book or they hate it. They either read it between hoots of laughter or with a quizzical look and a "I don't get it." I admit I like dark humor, sardonic wit, disdainful eavesdropping and solitude, so I comple...more " | |||||||||||
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Laura's
review of The Writing Class:
"Just fun----but smart fun, witty fun, has you groaning-in-sympathy and also who-the-heck-done-it fun. The Writing Class operates from a kind of Canterbury Tales/Ship of Fools scenario, whereby strangers gather together, each with his/her own story (I...more " | |||||||||||
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Jen
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The Writing Class (Hardcover) by Jincy Willett |
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read in August, 2008
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Jen's favorite quotes
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
— Jorge Luis Borges
— Jorge Luis Borges
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