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jjacobford

Cold Bean Porridge and a Virgin Milkmaid

Disgruntled Goodreads Expat

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November 2013
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text: I keep going over and over this sentence, and I can't stop..., Part the Second
...Then suddenly, even though it's just another bone-cold night, and beautiful and terrible snow everywhere so that it is har...
November 2013
24
text: I Heart Woolf, Part the Second
...only Fanny thought: "What a beautiful voice!" She thought how little he said yet how firm it was. She thought of how young...
November 2013
17
text: I Heart Woolf
I was in some sort of weird mental state this week and couldn't seem to focus on reading (it was a strange feeling), but I th...
November 2013
13
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In which I dither a bit about the concept of best book lists, literary history, &c. The ways history catalogs itself is a tri...
November 2013
05
text: A fragment
I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year--I've never lasted more than a day or two, in the past--but I had a few lines in my head wh...
November 2013
03
text: What's this? What's this?!
"...The old lady and gentleman will not object, I think; you will escape from a disorderly comfortless home into a wealthy, r...
October 2013
31
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text: I wish I had written this paragraph
"Well, that's that," said Dick, aloud to himself. He felt terribly sorry about Anne Elizabeth. Gee, I'm glad I'm not a girl, ...
October 2013
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October 2013
22
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text: I keep going over and over this sentence, and I can't stop...
And i shuddered and trembled as we fairly floated past this building from which they had flown off into space: rocketed, sacr...
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Dude I went to high school with and local poet Bao Phi ruminates a little about being Asian (or Asian-American) in fictional ...
text: Lesson Learned
So, it turns out the "edit" and "delete" buttons are right next to each other here on Booklikes, and if you're not careful yo...
October 2013
21
text: Try and stop me
It's probably a good thing Goodreads is down, because I have this weird urge to reread some Star Trek: Voyager novelizations ...
October 2013
20
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