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City on Fire

by Garth Risk Hallberg

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read in February 2016

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Pat said: " read 300 pages could not continue ..just not a good or interesting book with another 700 pages to go did not want to waste any more time "

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"this book is 1000 pages after trying to find something to hold my interest I gave up after 300 pages" — Feb 26, 2016 11:48AM

Jun 03, 2016 05:24PM · see review

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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

by Reza Aslan

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author)

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“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
― Saul Bellow

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