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The Winners (Beartown, #3)

by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)

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Matthew’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline

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I burned through the entire They Might Be Giants discography in under two weeks.

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09 Mar 18 · Flag

G.H. Eckel

Ready Player 1 has a great structure: the novel is just like a video game that gets progressively harder for the protagonist to win at each level of the game.

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Nancy Brady

I love their lyrics. How can you not love songs about the sun, James Ensor, James K. Polk, and more?

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BAM doesn’t answer to her real name

I think that can actually be some much more quickly

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

by Maria Semple

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Matthew’s Quotes

“When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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“Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

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“I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.”
― john kennedy toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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“Baby can you dig your man? He is a righteous man!”
― Stephen King, The Stand

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“I'm not talking about faith in God, I'm talking about faith in Mark Watney”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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