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"Story of Ain’t" by David Skinner

Rating: 2/5

The Story of Ain't

David Skinner, The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  June 11, 2013      2 minutes, 15 seconds
  Books>Nonfiction      2star, culture, David Skinner, history, language

"Jerusalem" by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Rating: 4/5

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011).

This is one serious pie...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  September 26, 2012      1 minute, 5 seconds
  Books>Nonfiction      4star, history, Simon Sebag Montefiore

"Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber

Rating: 5/5

David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years (New York: Melville House, 2011).

I really, really enjoyed this...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  July 05, 2012      1 minute, 12 seconds
  Books>Nonfiction      5star, anthropology, David Graeber, debt, economics, history

"Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt"

Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985).

And now for something completely d...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  April 21, 2012      1 minute, 15 seconds
  Books>Nonfiction      history, LDS, Parley P. Pratt, unrated

"The Words We Live By" by Linda Monk

Rating: 4/5

 Linda R. Monk, The Words We Live By (New York: Hyperion, 2003).

This book is the entire text of the US Con...

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Profile Photo Aaron Dalton aaron@daltons.ca Aaron Dalton Perlkönig Perlkonig Canada Alberta --05-09 Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
  February 11, 2012      0 minutes, 25 seconds
  Books>Nonfiction      4star, history, Linda Monk, politics
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You can’t get blood from a turnip. Listen, you need some blood? I can totally get you some blood. Set that turnip down and follow me to the blood. There’s a lot of blood.
-- Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 40, "The Deft Bowman," 01 Feb 2014

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