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	The Index of Self-Destructive Acts 4.08 avg rating — 1,995 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Happened to Sophie Wilder 3.46 avg rating — 1,685 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arts & Entertainments 3.20 avg rating — 984 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else 3.57 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor), Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House by Francine Prose (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author), Jay Aaseng (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There was something beautiful and timeless to her about a hardback without its jacket, a book that could be known in no way except by reading it.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder

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“Procrastination had always seemed to Waxworth an obvious cognitive failure, either an inability to measure the passage of time or an overvaluing of the present relative to the future. Something more than the daily churn or the pressure of print kept him from this work. Strange thoughts distracted him whenever he sat down to it. He thought about Margo Doyle’s question: Haven’t you ever been transported by your wife? He couldn’t precisely remember his answer, which was something about poetry, about feeling one thing while knowing another, stuff he didn’t believe at all. She’d gotten”
― Christopher R. Beha, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

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“Perhaps the body was not a cage that held the soul, but a hand that gripped it like a cane, appearing to guide it, to command it, but all the while dependent upon it, gripping it all the tighter the more that it needed it, finally letting it go.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder

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