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Tim Null is 46% done with The Virginity of Famous Men
So far all the stories are good, but Five Rooms is wonderful beyond belief. Sort of like a modern day Huck Finn that's a girl in a VW. No raft.
Dec 10, 2025 09:58AM Add a comment
The Virginity of Famous Men

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Tim Null is 18% done with Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Quote: If everyone behaved like Donald Trump,   ...   Without a shared sense of responsibility to the common good, we would have to assume that everybody   ...   was acting selfishly, making and enforcing laws for their own benefit. Unquote
Oct 13, 2025 09:34AM 1 comment
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America

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Tim Null is 43% done with Bad Boy: A Memoir
My current focus is on memoirs and autobiographies with emphasis given to people advancing either literature or liberal causes such as individual liberty, equality, and social justice. In the case of literature, my primary focus will be on authors with extensive short story collections.
Oct 08, 2025 08:19AM Add a comment
Bad Boy: A Memoir

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Tim Null is 14% done with These Truths: A History of the United States
Quote
England would have no slaves. And America would have no king.
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Sep 28, 2025 12:18PM Add a comment
These Truths: A History of the United States

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Tim Null is 3% done with These Truths: A History of the United States
Quote [Our founders and ancestors] believed that truth is to be found in ideas about morality but also the study of history. Unquote p. xv of the Introduction
Sep 26, 2025 10:56AM Add a comment
These Truths: A History of the United States

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Tim Null is 17% done with 107 Days
I've finished the first 18 days. Five star stuff so far!
Sep 23, 2025 01:04PM Add a comment
107 Days

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Tim Null is 23% done with A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
I was first drawn to this book because Grover Cleveland is a second cousin many times removed. That is, according to my recollection, my paternal grandmother's father, William Dodge Cory (1840-1910), was a second cousin to Grover Cleveland (1837-1908). In other words, I share an ancestor with Grover Cleveland, Moses Cleveland. Obviously, Grover's connection to Moses is a tad more direct than mine.
Sep 19, 2025 08:43AM 5 comments
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

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Tim Null is 52% done with The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President⁠—and Why It Failed
Part 1: The Rail Split
"Allan Pinkerton ... is on the case." p. 149
Birth through presidential election of Lincoln. Causes of Civil War. Origin of the Secret Service.
Sep 14, 2025 02:48PM Add a comment
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President⁠—and Why It Failed

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Tim Null is 66% done with The Novels of Gloria Naylor: Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey's Cafe
I've been reading them in the order they were written: Linden Hills, Bailey's Cafe, and now onto Mama Day. From Bailey's Cafe: "When you have to face [life] with more questions than answers, it can be a crying shame." I liked Bailey's Cafe. Linden Hills, not much.
Aug 03, 2025 07:12AM 1 comment
The Novels of Gloria Naylor: Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey's Cafe

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Tim Null is 15% done with The Ghost Writer
"..the disquieting affliction that [comes] over [me] when [I] read [Philip Roth novels]. p. 23
Jun 20, 2025 10:54AM Add a comment
The Ghost Writer

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Tim Null is 5% done with The Stories of John Cheever
Story #2
Title: The Common Day
Notes: Resembles the very first episode of a TV show that introduces the audience to all the elements of the show, such as title, theme song, location, cast, and common sources of conflict between the characters.
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Their conversation was filled with diminutives, timidity, and vagueness.
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Rating: They Shoot [Coons], Don't They?
Jun 09, 2025 01:43PM Add a comment
The Stories of John Cheever

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Tim Null is 4% done with The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever Story #1
Title: Goodbye, My Brother
Cheever carries on a bit much. He doesn't transition from one scene to the next until he has almost completely exhausted my patience. He seems to have a sixth sense that enables him to know exactly when my patience will be exhausted.
Rating: 4plus
Jun 08, 2025 01:00PM Add a comment
The Stories of John Cheever

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Tim Null is 19% done with Goodbye, Columbus
When I first read Goodbye Columbus, all those decades ago, my conclusion was: This only proves that Philip Roth can punctuate run-on sentences. So why am I reading it again? Why not?
May 31, 2025 11:28AM 4 comments
Goodbye, Columbus

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Tim Null is 4% done with The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
The curse of the first person point of view!!!
May 30, 2025 08:11AM 2 comments
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

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Tim Null is 46% done with Smilla's Sense of Snow
Gonna set this book aside for awhile so my brain cells can regroup, and I can listen to Mark Sandman sing his song titled Patience.
Apr 11, 2025 12:06PM 6 comments
Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Tim Null is 32% done with To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
"Lincoln's policy of helping every man work his way up had been jettisoned by his own party after only twelve years." (p. 152)
Apr 08, 2025 01:37PM Add a comment
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

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Tim Null is 10% done with To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
"By 1859,... Republicans like Lincoln were ready to adopt the idea that the government should actively promote individual economic advancement." (p. 40)
Apr 02, 2025 10:49AM Add a comment
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

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Tim Null is 4% done with Smilla's Sense of Snow
Quote: "We all have our phobias, " I say.

Ah-ha! The crux of the matter revealed on page 23.
Apr 02, 2025 07:57AM 3 comments
Smilla's Sense of Snow

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Tim Null is 3% done with To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
This gonna take a while. So far, I've read the introduction three times. I didn't reread it because I didn't understand it. I reread it because I wanted to savor it.
Mar 25, 2025 08:03AM 2 comments
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

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