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“You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.”
― Assassination Vacation
― Assassination Vacation
“As recently as fifty years ago my grandmother was picking cotton with bleeding fingers. I think about her all the time while I'm getting overpaid to sit at a computer, eat Chinese takeout, and think up things in my pajamas, The half century separating my fingers, which are moisturized with cucumber lotion and type eighty words per minute, and her bloody digits is an ordinary Land of Opportunity parable, and don't think I don't appreciate it. ”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
“Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
“However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.”
― Assassination Vacation
― Assassination Vacation
Little Shop's Catch All Book Club
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Group for the Catch All Book Club that meets at Little Shop Of Stories in Decatur, GA.
Books I Loathed
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This is a public forum for people to kvetch (cleanly, please) about books they absolutely hated, and for others to respond. Though nonfiction is certa ...more
amelia’s 2025 Year in Books
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