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I'll eat a whole blueberry pie if Landvik didn't base Haze Evans at least in part on the legendary Molly Ivins.

I steadfastly disagree with the author on a political basis, but I think this person is trying to tell us the truth as they have borne witness to it.

Overwhelmed. In the best possible way. I have been reading this in fits because it’s such an emotional and intellectual revelation.

"Since early childhood, I've, inexplicably, been able to see information differently from other people. Be they words on a page or two musical phrases in an entire score, patterns have simply emerged to me that somehow seem invisible to everyone else."

Crying from recognition, relief & weird bittersweet joy I'm not alone. My quest of finding formulas for perfect songs. My propensity for finding Scrabble bingoes.

‘Americans today are no smarter than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century.’ HOLY BALLS, HOW TRUE!

I didn't think it was possible to adore Mr. Franken more than I already do, but here we are.

Birthday entry.

Mesmerizing so far!

Lindy West has filled the void left by Molly Ivins for "social commentator with whom I'd most like to have a drink."

This is excruciatingly beautiful and intense.

I am ready to declare this the best book of 2016.

Faustian Deadpool. Inasmuch as Deadpool can be Faustian. OMG. I am in love.

Thoroughly enjoying Dr. Ehrman's lectures -- the depth of scholarship, the context of history and culture and language, the analysis of canonical and non-canonical mythologies.

Holy balls, this one is cutting me.

This is breaking my heart.

Jimmy Carter is a poet and an artist. And a very dear human being.

Highlights so far: "Couldn't you have chosen to die in a less idiotic manner?" and how a lack of spelling education turned motorcycle gang "The Violence" turned into "The Violence."

This is an A+ audiobook for teens on up. Hilarious, smart, and very sweet.

This makes me fear we are not learning from past tragedies by anticipating greater ones.

Douglas Adams clearly must be an inspiration for Tom Holt.

Just barely made it through the prologue to Part 1 and already horrified, distressed, and upset beyond anything I expected. Very difficult but very necessary reading.

Holy balls, this is exactly what coming "home" felt like when I lived in Madison and Bemidji.

Take me back to NOLA, please.

This is an emotionally-manipulative book, and I am getting completely sucked in.

'Socrates is a pretty good pimp name.'

Okay, admittedly, this may not be the best book ever written, but the audio is super-charming. Way to go, Aziz.

I am digging this like a shallow grave in that I'm not digging it very much and kinda wishing it were a funeral pyre in that I could just set it on fire and be done. Will stick with it for at least another disc.