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		<title>finding myself in fashion-jeanne bekker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i suppose this lil&#8217; library project of mine will force me to confront my motivations over the past year or so-and once again, i have absolutely no idea how this one (of all her books) would&#8217;ve made it on to the list. other than some oft-recycled phrases (&#8220;decked out in&#8230;&#8221;), it was a smooth read. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3367&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>everything asian-sung j. woo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You do this with every guy you meet. You give them what they don’t deserve, and that’s why they hurt you.” (272) today&#8217;s count: 48 checked out 1 available for pickup 9 outstanding holds 40 renewed, and i&#8217;m pretty sure i can put a hurtin&#8217; on this remainder by feb 17th, which is my next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3365&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>real sofistikashun-tony hoagland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;i studied at her feet without even meeting her.&#8221; -john forte on angela davis &#8220;sometimes i feel like there&#8217;s a lot of rebuilding in order and in order and a lot of that is going to come from just the old fashioned principle of reading books. and more importantly, we have to write and document [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3363&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>last words-george carlin with tony hendra</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[stand-up comedians are a special breed of storyteller. i appreciate that this one goes deeper than the other books that read like scripts to the man&#8217;s act, and i don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s an accident that he waited until the very end to reveal what happened in the gutters (thanks, comic book guy). the co-writer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3359&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the wealth cure-hill harper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[rich dad, poor dad-this is not. obama&#8216;s law school homie frames his holistic health/wealth book in an all-encompassing (personal and political history, experiential wisdom, and cold hard money facts) way without being preachy. the book reads well and i managed to just finish it just in time to pick up my remaining hold (i could&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3357&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the corner-david simon and edward burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am currently watching the black power mixtape 1967-1975, which is worth it just for the footage of stokley carmichael interviewing his mom, and our nation&#8217;s mama&#8217;s boy strombo&#8217;s haiti special. i have to shout out spike lee&#8216;s works on katrina, and as i set up this book that eventually brought us to the wire, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3355&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the child that books built-francis spufford</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Reading catatonically wasn’t something I chose to do, it just happened, and if it could be my funny characteristic in the family, a trademark oddity my parents were affectionate toward, that was great. Though I never framed the thought on the surface of my mind, stopping my ears with fiction was non-negotiable. There were things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3352&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>unincorporated poems in the last honda dynasty-tony hoagland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[suffering from a light amnesia in the way that skim milk can barely remember the cow (47) a snippet of the story of white people Tagged: judd apatow's pick, thank you for smoking, tony hoagland, unincorporated poems in the last honda dynasty<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3347&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>flight-sherman alexie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[sherman alexie&#8216;s work is like nature&#8217;s candy (persimmons, pomelos, honeycrisp apples)-so quick and tasty. this one is all about revenge and betrayal-and who provokes whom? because i&#8217;ve been chewed out by a senior for dog-earring &#8220;the public books&#8221; and have since changed my ways, i feel that i can make the public announcement that underlining [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3345&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>brain droppings-george carlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i’m noticing some repeating bits here, but that’s to be expected from a comedian. i’ve also noticed all the things that adam corolla, and for that matter, jerry seinfeld “borrowed” from the man. on that note-jiminy glick is the shit. so is martin short in damages. the more i read carlin, the more crochety i [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=metrotextual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6692415&amp;post=3343&amp;subd=metrotextual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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