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The Pirate

by Walter Scott

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read in February 2009

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sedge said: " I never thought I'd read anything by Scott, but in researching Shetland pirates, I came across this. The style's digressive and urbane, and I like it a lot already. It's certainly not a challenging read, but it is interesting.

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Feb 09, 2009 08:15AM · see review

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Birds of America: Stories

by Lorrie Moore

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sedge said: " I love Lorrie Moore; I owned this volume when it was first published, but sold it in the great sell-off. In November, I got a new copy. I'm hoping it will remind me of *different* techniques for short-story writing; her style is so dry, and wry, and ...more "

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Jan 09, 2009 12:04PM · see review

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“And as I stand up and take that breath I can feel that being here is no static thing. We are not just existing at a time when an old, unworkable world is dying, but we are living as a new one struggles for birth.”
― Lois Hart

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“And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.”
― Lauren Berlant

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