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"When I walked into Latitude 33, a cute little independent bookstore/camera shop in Laguna Beach, CA, I was immediately drawn to this book because its cover which is just beautiful. It also managed to catch my attention rather quickly because it was p...more " | |||
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gave The White Tiger (Hardcover) by Aravind Adiga bookshelves: read-in-2009 |
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gave Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut (Hardcover) by Chester E. Finn Jr. bookshelves: read-in-2009 |
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gave Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (Paperback) by John Toland |
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gave Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath (Hardcover) by John Toland |
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of WWII, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker bookshelves: to-read |
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"He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive."
— Richard Yates
— Richard Yates
"The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place."
— Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)
— Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)
""I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.""
— Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives)
— Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives)
"Philip K. Dick died
and now we only need
what is strictly necessary."
— Roberto Bolaño (The Romantic Dogs)
and now we only need
what is strictly necessary."
— Roberto Bolaño (The Romantic Dogs)
"I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me)."
— Roberto Bolaño
— Roberto Bolaño
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