All Signs Point to Murder
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Dec 7 2019
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9780738751078
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The Madness of Mercury
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Nov 25 2019
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9780738750781
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When Dimple Met Rishi
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Sep 8 2017
isn:
9781481478687
You Know Me Well
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Oct 26 2016
isn:
9781250098641
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Fart Party, the
reviewdate:
May 30 2015
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9780978656935
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Fairyland: a Memoir of My Father
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I set up interviews with our gray tabby, Heidi, so named because of her tendency to hide under the furniture whenever I entered the room. I'd ask Heidi a question, then pinch her ear with my fingernails to elicit a response, capturing the exchange on Dad's playback tape recorder. But this activity increased her elusiveness.
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Mar 10 2015
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9780393082524
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Mary Ann in Autumn
When we first meet Mary Ann Singleton in Tales of the City, she's just moved to San Francisco from Ohio. She is naive and a bit of a ninny. There are eight TofC books, and although Mary Ann seems to be beloved by the author, truthfully, she's rather annoying. In book or two before Mary Ann in Autumn she's even worse--a self-centered, self-involved climber who abandons her friends and child. Still, Maupin gives her a chance at redemption.
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Nov 25 2012
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978-0-062020147
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IHOP Papers, the
Our heroine is an alcoholic lesbian virgin who moves to San Francisco to be with her Philosophy of Nonviolence professor and the professor's two lovers, also Nonviolence alumni. 19-year-old Francesca is a cutter, who also has crushes on her sponsor, another waitress, and a soap opera character. All the relationships are incestuous and manipulative--just so you know what you're getting into with this novel.
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"Guess what," I told Andy, "I just quit my job."
"Did you make a real big scene when you quit?" he asked wide-eyed.
"I wish."
I think a serious, "How am I living up to my anarchist potential?" assessment is necessary when I quit a job in the future."
reviewdate:
Apr 2 2012
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978-0-78671-794-1
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Child’s Life and Other Stories, a
I believe I might be a bit of a prude. Gloeckner’s well-drawn graphic memoir of sexual abuse, drug abuse, and bad parenting is a little overly graphic for me, as is R. Crumb’s icky introduction. I’m sure it’s quite brilliant, but it’s not for me. It is pretty funny reading it on the subway, though, with all its nudity, especially when you board the train in a religious neighborhood.
reviewdate:
Jun 14 2011
isn:
1-883319-71-4