Bananafish5
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“I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I'm trying to do it well.”


Bananafish5

32-year-old woman in Seattle, WA, United States
Seeking a man, 30 to 40
The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

My first Hemingway. After I graduated from college, I made the bullfight tour through northwestern Spain. Fell in love with food, wine and short sentences.

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The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The End of the Affair

Graham Greene, Michael Gorra

This book gives voice to my struggles of a childhood spent in parochial schools. Among many other things.

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The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966

The Roominghouse Madrigals

Charles Bukowski

For one year, I lived in a San Pedro apartment that Charlie had lived in previously. The heater didn't work, the water pressure was horrid, but the stove and the view were otherworldly.

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Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)

Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

Speaks to my kind of sad patriotism. And then there's the Sunflower Sutra.

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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Chuck Klosterman IV

Chuck Klosterman

Three cheers for sardonic wit.

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