Sarah's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/129832 en-US Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:08:42 -0700 60 Sarah's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 30319555 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:08:42 -0700 <![CDATA[Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World]]> Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World
author: Marybeth Hicks
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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date added: 08/16/08
shelves: nonfiction
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]]> 30319189 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:01:23 -0700 <![CDATA[Loving Frank: A Novel]]> Loving Frank: A Novel
author: Nancy Horan
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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date added: 08/16/08
shelves: contemporary-fiction
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]]> 22279420 Wed, 14 May 2008 21:50:13 -0700 <![CDATA[Icy Sparks]]> Icy Sparks
author: Gwyn Hyman Rubio
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2008
rating: 1
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date added: 05/14/08
shelves: contemporary-fiction
review:
Misunderstood and misdiagnosed Southern girl figures it out.
]]> 16837321 Wed, 14 May 2008 21:47:52 -0700 <![CDATA[The Black Book]]> The Black Book
author: Orhan Pamuk
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2006
rating: 2
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date added: 05/14/08
shelves: contemporary-fiction
review:
Over-my-head mystery - more sophisticated take on "Talented Mr. Ripley"
]]> 22279214 Wed, 14 May 2008 21:46:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Istanbul: Memories and the City]]> Istanbul: Memories and the City
author: Orhan Pamuk
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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date added: 05/14/08
shelves: nonfiction
review:
Memoir of a city as well as the person living in it.
]]> 22279051 Wed, 14 May 2008 21:43:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56]]> Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
author: Rafe Esquith
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2007
rating: 1
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date added: 05/14/08
shelves: nonfiction
review:
Teacher-basher with some good ideas
]]> 18902329 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:30:48 -0700 <![CDATA[Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel]]> Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel
author: Vendela Vida
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2007
rating: 2
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/04/08
shelves: contemporary-fiction
review:
This won tons of awards, but I must have missed something. The writing sounded forced. I can't say more without ruining the ending, but let's just say some characters were just not plausible!
]]> 19285862 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:15:34 -0700 <![CDATA[A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]]> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
author: Dave Eggers
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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date added: 04/02/08
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]]> 19285742 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:14:12 -0700 <![CDATA[D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths]]> D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
author: Ingri D'Aulaire
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.59
book published: 1962
rating: 3
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]]> 19285721 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:13:52 -0700 <![CDATA[The House of the Spirits]]> The House of the Spirits
author: Isabel Allende
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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date added: 04/02/08
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]]> 19285704 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:13:36 -0700 <![CDATA[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
author: Ken Kesey
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1960
rating: 4
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date added: 04/02/08
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]]> 19285655 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:13:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Into the Wild]]> Into the Wild
author: Jon Krakauer
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1996
rating: 3
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]]> 18902243 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:51:06 -0700 <![CDATA[Saturday]]> Saturday
author: Ian McEwan
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2005
rating: 2
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date added: 03/28/08
shelves: contemporary-fiction
review:
Beautiful writing, but this is a book for middle aged men - I had trouble relating to the character's angst.
]]> 16837610 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:01:28 -0800 <![CDATA[Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel]]> Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
author: Jonathan Safran Foer
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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date added: 03/02/08
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]]> 16837364 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:58:18 -0800 <![CDATA[Nineteen Minutes: A novel]]> Nineteen Minutes: A novel
author: Jodi Picoult
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2008
rating: 1
read at: 03/08
date added: 03/02/08
shelves: beach-books, young-adult
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]]> 16837201 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:54:59 -0800 <![CDATA[Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)]]> Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
author: Joyce Carol Oates
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1993
rating: 3
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date added: 03/02/08
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]]> 13165373 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:34:39 -0800 <![CDATA[The Giving Tree]]> The Giving Tree
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1964
rating: 4
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date added: 01/22/08
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]]> 13165312 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:34:10 -0800 <![CDATA[Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)]]> Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
author: William Shakespeare
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1597
rating: 5
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date added: 01/22/08
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]]> 13165275 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:33:56 -0800 <![CDATA[Me Talk Pretty One Day]]> Me Talk Pretty One Day
author: David Sedaris
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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date added: 01/22/08
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]]> 13165251 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:33:44 -0800 <![CDATA[Where the Sidewalk Ends]]> Where the Sidewalk Ends
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1974
rating: 4
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date added: 01/22/08
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]]> 1961004 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:28:54 -0800 <![CDATA[The Memory Keeper's Daughter]]> The Memory Keeper's Daughter
author: Kim Edwards
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/22/08
shelves: contemporary-fiction
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]]> 13164270 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:26:27 -0800 <![CDATA[Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)]]> Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)
author: Fred Gipson
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1956
rating: 3
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date added: 01/22/08
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]]> 10034295 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:53:59 -0800 <![CDATA[The Old Man and The Sea]]> The Old Man and The Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.52
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: classics
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]]> 10034217 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:52:17 -0800 <![CDATA[The Hobbit]]> The Hobbit
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1937
rating: 1
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034210 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:52:10 -0800 <![CDATA[Out of Africa (Modern Library)]]> Out of Africa (Modern Library)
author: Isak Dinesen
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034202 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:52:02 -0800 <![CDATA[Gone with the Wind]]> Gone with the Wind
author: Margaret Mitchell
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1936
rating: 3
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034160 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:50:55 -0800 <![CDATA[Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)]]> Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
author: D.H. Lawrence
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1928
rating: 1
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034129 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:50:19 -0800 <![CDATA[Murder of Roger Ackroyd]]> Murder of Roger Ackroyd
author: Agatha Christie
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1926
rating: 4
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034121 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:50:11 -0800 <![CDATA[Mrs. Dalloway]]> Mrs. Dalloway
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1925
rating: 3
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]]> 10034089 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:49:37 -0800 <![CDATA[The Age of Innocence]]> The Age of Innocence
author: Edith Wharton
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1920
rating: 5
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034086 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:49:31 -0800 <![CDATA[Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)]]> Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
author: D.H. Lawrence
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1920
rating: 1
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034073 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:49:17 -0800 <![CDATA[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
author: James Joyce
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1916
rating: 5
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034061 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:49:04 -0800 <![CDATA[The Rainbow (Penguin Classics)]]> The Rainbow (Penguin Classics)
author: D.H. Lawrence
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1995
rating: 2
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: classics
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]]> 10034046 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:48:47 -0800 <![CDATA[Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)]]> Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
author: Edith Wharton
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.24
book published: 1911
rating: 5
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10034012 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:48:07 -0800 <![CDATA[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]> The Hound of the Baskervilles
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1902
rating: 3
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]]> 10034008 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:48:03 -0800 <![CDATA[Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)]]> Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
author: Joseph Conrad
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1902
rating: 5
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10033997 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:47:56 -0800 <![CDATA[Lord Jim]]> Lord Jim
author: Joseph Conrad
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1900
rating: 5
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10033981 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:47:34 -0800 <![CDATA[Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition)]]> Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition)
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1895
rating: 4
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10033971 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:47:24 -0800 <![CDATA[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)]]> The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1892
rating: 3
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10033964 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:47:11 -0800 <![CDATA[Tess of the D'Urbervilles]]> Tess of the D'Urbervilles
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1891
rating: 5
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date added: 12/06/07
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]]> 10033950 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:46:58 -0800 <![CDATA[The Woodlanders (Penguin Classics)]]> The Woodlanders (Penguin Classics)
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: classics
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]]> 10033931 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:46:38 -0800 <![CDATA[The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)]]> The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1886
rating: 4
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: classics
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]]> 10033920 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:46:23 -0800 <![CDATA[Alice in Wonderland]]> Alice in Wonderland
author: Lewis Carroll
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1865
rating: 5
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: classics
review:

]]> 10033918 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:46:21 -0800 <![CDATA[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
author: Mark Twain
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1884
rating: 3
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: classics
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]]> 10033912 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:46:12 -0800 <![CDATA[Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)]]> Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: classics
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]]> 10033904 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:46:00 -0800 <![CDATA[The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)]]> The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
author: Henry James
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1881
rating: 4
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]]> 10033898 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:45:50 -0800 <![CDATA[The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)]]> The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1878
rating: 4
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]]> 10033894 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:45:46 -0800 <![CDATA[Anna Karenina]]> Anna Karenina
author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1876
rating: 5
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]]> 10033881 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:45:36 -0800 <![CDATA[Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)]]> Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1874
rating: 3
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]]> 10033868 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:45:12 -0800 <![CDATA[The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)]]> The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1869
rating: 4
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]]> 10033866 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:45:10 -0800 <![CDATA[Little Women]]> Little Women
author: Louisa May Alcott
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1868
rating: 3
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]]> 10033851 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:44:50 -0800 <![CDATA[Great Expectations]]> Great Expectations
author: Charles Dickens
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1860
rating: 4
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]]> 10033834 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:44:33 -0800 <![CDATA[Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)]]> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Gustave Flaubert
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1857
rating: 4
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]]> 10033820 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:44:06 -0800 <![CDATA[Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)]]> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 10033802 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:43:42 -0800 <![CDATA[Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)]]> Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
author: Charles Dickens
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1837
rating: 4
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]]> 10033795 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:43:35 -0800 <![CDATA[A Christmas Carol (Great Stories)]]> A Christmas Carol (Great Stories)
author: Charles Dickens
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1843
rating: 3
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]]> 10033776 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:43:05 -0800 <![CDATA[Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)]]> Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
author: Jane Austen
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1818
rating: 4
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]]> 10033765 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:42:52 -0800 <![CDATA[Emma]]> Emma
author: Jane Austen
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1816
rating: 5
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]]> 10033762 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:42:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Mansfield Park]]> Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1814
rating: 4
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]]> 10033757 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:42:40 -0800 <![CDATA[Sense and Sensibility]]> Sense and Sensibility
author: Jane Austen
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 10033542 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:38:59 -0800 <![CDATA[The Bridges of Madison County]]> The Bridges of Madison County
author: Robert James Waller
name: Sarah
average rating: 2.80
book published: 1995
rating: 1
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date added: 12/06/07
shelves: beach-books
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]]> 10033516 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:38:46 -0800 <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> The Unbearable Lightness of Being
author: Milan Kundera
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1982
rating: 2
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]]> 10033494 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:38:26 -0800 <![CDATA[The World According to Garp]]> The World According to Garp
author: John Irving
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1978
rating: 2
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]]> 10033480 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:38:10 -0800 <![CDATA[The House of Mirth]]> The House of Mirth
author: Edith Wharton
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1905
rating: 3
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]]> 10033422 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:37:29 -0800 <![CDATA[Angels & Demons]]> Angels & Demons
author: Dan Brown
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2005
rating: 1
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