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Sporadic #filmmaker. ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO is now streaming! (An impressionistic #documentary about growing up in 1950's Chicago, featuring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon & Lili Taylor.) Some stuff I scribe: #Chicago things, #cocktails, #music, #books. And yup, I'm #gay. “Living and ceasing to live are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.” –ANDRE BRETON
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92% complete! randomcha has read 37 of 40 books.
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randomcha started reading Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell
randomcha rated Lincoln in the Bardo: 4 stars
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …
randomcha finished reading Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …
randomcha started reading The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in …
randomcha rated Notes from No Man's Land: 4 stars
randomcha finished reading Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss
randomcha started reading Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …
randomcha rated Play it as it lays, a novel: 4 stars
Play it as it lays, a novel by Joan Didion (A Touchstone book)
randomcha finished reading Play it as it lays, a novel by Joan Didion (A Touchstone book)
Play it as it lays, a novel by Joan Didion (A Touchstone book)
randomcha started reading Play it as it lays, a novel by Joan Didion (A Touchstone book)
Play it as it lays, a novel by Joan Didion (A Touchstone book)
randomcha started reading Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss
randomcha rated Condominium: 4 stars
John D. MacDonald: Condominium (2014, Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Condominium by John D. MacDonald
Condo residents' dreams of a luxurious life in the Florida Keys are shattered by an approaching hurricane and by Martin …
randomcha finished reading Condominium by John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald: Condominium (2014, Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Condominium by John D. MacDonald
Condo residents' dreams of a luxurious life in the Florida Keys are shattered by an approaching hurricane and by Martin …
randomcha rated Never Let Me Go: 4 stars
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kathy, a clone about to donate all her organs and die, reflects on her past about her school and the …