false <![CDATA[Affinity]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256020494m/72929.jpg 72929 14 An upper-class woman, recovering from a suicide attempt, visits the women's ward of Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitation. There she meets Selina, an enigmatic spiritualist - and becomes drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own. 1413038 book 1999 Affinity total:1629|5:318|4:604|3:506|2:163|1:38| 1629 5888 2306 208 4 5 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Jun 05 06:59:05 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 07:00:10 -0700 2007
In many ways, the plot of Affinity is like that of the other work of Waters' that I ha...more...]]> 3 1 false true Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 15:34:21 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 10:51:39 -0800 2009

didn't really liked it that much until the end. i LOVED the twist ending. i wasn't really expecting it. but up until that point, i wasn't really that vested in either of the two characters, and wasn't concerned that much with things turning out "good" for them.
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Firstly, the book dabbles in the supernatural psychics world w...more...]]> 3 2 false true Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 16:16:50 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 11:57:20 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jun 12 11:42:36 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 11:42:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 02:55:48 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 02:56:09 -0700 2009
I think, however, that because I started off with Tipping the Velvet...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 23 11:01:54 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 11:13:19 -0700 2009 I can take flawed characters. I am very happy with the theme of lesbian love. The theme of scam spirit calling and the hysterical pawing at dead relatives is right up my alley.

But I was alternately so woefully bored and frustrated it sucked...more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 10:29:32 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 19:56:11 -0800 2009 1
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Margaret Priory is a young woman who has attempted suicide after the death of her father. She is talked into becoming a visitor-lady at Millbank Prison, where she goes around, talks to the other prisoners in hopes that she w...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 19:41:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 19:41:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 02:12:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 11:02:22 -0700 2009 Well, maybe they don't actually suck, it's just that I don't like them.

The idiot me keeps spending (wasting) money on books that make me feel sad for the waste of paper.
This is one of those books I wish I had not read. ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 11:01:47 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 11:11:33 -0700 2009 1-Everything is twisted, like a Hitchcock movie. In other Waters stories I've been exposed to, its okay that the bad gal screws over the main character because the main character is happy in the end (In Tipping the Velvet, main character finds 'true love'...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 04:49:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 08:39:32 -0700 2009
The conditions within the prison are well described - as is their effect on every...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 08 01:55:40 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 02:38:28 -0800 2009
Affinty is an exploration of the mystical facets of love and lust. That which is not apparaent...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 10:32:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 00:45:47 -0700 2009
The first half of the book I felt went a bit slow. There's a lot of set-up and description contained ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Apr 17 20:24:16 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 17 20:47:44 -0700 2007
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