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"'Procreating girl dog'... I was used to being called that, of course, but rarely by a nun."

I heart the Stupidity Surplus.

I'll finish it, but it's just not very good.

I loved his father's sex advice. "If she says no, then you have to assume she means it."

Charlie makes me smile.

Dave Eggers was the best so far.

This book is really well done, and I have a feeling it's going to leave me wanting more.

Selected character names: Winn, Biddy, Greyson, Sterling, Oatsie, Mopsy, Piper, Agatha.

Reading on the train means the train decides when you stop reading, which in this case was at a truly poignant and heartbreaking moment.

Hoping to finish this book before I die and the narrator collects my soul.

I must have put this book down at a bad place. Finding it very hard to get back into it.

this book is long.

A book about the Holocaust narrated by Death. So far, not as much soul-collecting as I was expecting.

When Sarah Vowell wrote this, she was younger than I am now, but let's not compare myself to Sarah Vowell.

The chapter on the Trail of Tears reminds me of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and now I have "Populism, Yeah Yeah!" stuck in my head.

"Why not tell people outside the family what you're thinking? As I would later find out, it's a living."

It occurs to me that Jenny Lawson is merely an undermedicated Sarah Vowell.

I want to share a pretty great quote about Hamlet, but it's a spoiler.

Dark and mysterious.

I'm calling it. This is my favorite book about a circus.

Erin Morgenstern knows what she is doing.

"Spell-check refuses to recognize the word 'chupacabra'... It's like spell-check doesn't even want me to write my memoir."

More than half of the books I've read this year are not in the Hunger Games series.

"'Do you like me? Circle yes or no.'" What Jenny imagined the note that was passed under her bathroom door presumably by a psychopath while she was on the can might say.

Her rewritten drafts of an email to a coworker are the funniest things I've read in a while.

This is like a less heartbreaking "Glass Castle" (Jeanette Walls).

"If you are going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill

Postman: "You need to lock those damn turkeys up if you can't control them." Father: "Sir, this bird is a quail, and his name is Jenkins."

"Camp Sundown" was almost intolerable.

Loved the first three, "Peep Show" was eh, and I'm still digesting "Family."