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Average rating: 4.08 · 132 ratings · 16 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Pie & Whiskey: Writers under the Influence of Butter & Booze by Kate Lebo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samuel Ligon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Virginia Reeves (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Railtown Almanac by Thom Caraway (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeffrey G. Dodd (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Sky Lacks 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Railtown Almanac - A Spokane Poetry Anthology by Jeffrey G. Dodd (Editor), Thom Caraway (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

by J.R.R. Tolkien

bookshelves: novels-literary, currently-reading

read in February 2019

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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

by Richard Hugo

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Oct 08, 2010 02:36PM

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Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

by Tamsyn Muir (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: novels-speculative, currently-reading

read in December 2025

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