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sensible shoes

What's so funny about peace, love, understanding and sensible shoes?

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I'm a 50ish woman working in a public library in a depressed small town, and I've managed to climb just about to the bottom rung of the middle class ladder. I'll be writing about books, media, politics, music, and anything else that is not embarrassing to the family. I'm trying to uphold the seventies values of feminism, liberalism and pre-postmodern earnestness. I dislike snark and flippancy. I like my sensible shoes and my freak-flag gray hair. I think it's possible, through reason and empathy, to approach truth (as opposed to truthiness). I distrust Web 2.0 and I probably distrust you. But welcome, anyway!

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  • This Is Where I Leave You
  • You Remind Me of Me: A Novel
  • The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
  • Blindness
  • Await Your Reply: A Novel
  • Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries)

Book Review: This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Book Review: You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon

Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

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Dominique
Dominique said:
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Oooh I love dystopian fiction! This book sounds a bit similar to The Day of the Triffids in terms of... read more
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ken
ken said:
what a joke,he hasn't done anything other then run around the world saying how sorry he is for america and... read more
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Carmen
Carmen said:
You mentioned the Native American characters are more complexly drawn. read more
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Carmen
Carmen said:
I wonder if Amazon will reveal what the error was (so as to prove it was a glitch read more
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