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author: Greg Mortenson
name: Sara
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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author: Nikolai V. Gogol
name: Sara
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/05/08
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author: Edith Wharton
name: Sara
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1905
rating: 4
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author: Jhumpa Lahiri
name: Sara
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/18/08
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author: Michael Pollan
name: Sara
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/26/08
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author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Sara
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1869
rating: 4
read at: 03/08
date added: 04/26/08
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author: Betty Smith
name: Sara
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1943
rating: 5
read at: 12/07
date added: 11/29/07
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author: Paul Auster
name: Sara
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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author: Jeannette Walls
name: Sara
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 11/07
date added: 11/01/07
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]]> 7823454 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:19:16 -0700
author: Elizabeth Gilbert
name: Sara
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 11/07
date added: 10/16/07
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]]> 2043558 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:54:29 -0700
author: Kiran Desai
name: Sara
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 09/07
date added: 10/11/07
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]]> 4183105 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:53:35 -0700
author: John Steinbeck
name: Sara
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1952
rating: 5
read at: 08/07
date added: 10/11/07
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I have to finish this in time to return to my sister by her first day back to school! It's on her 10th grade summer reading list!
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author: Hermann Hesse
name: Sara
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1922
rating: 4
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date added: 10/11/07
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]]> 7606295 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:52:52 -0700
author: Jorge Luis Borges
name: Sara
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1958
rating: 3
read at: 09/07
date added: 10/11/07
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]]> 4183011 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:14:40 -0700
author: Jane Austen
name: Sara
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 07/07
date added: 08/06/07
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Forget self-help books. This is the only breakup guide I'll ever need. Thank you, Jane!
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author: Joan Didion
name: Sara
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at: 07/07
date added: 08/06/07
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I found this book to be a bit like an Antonioni movie in that it's not the plot that moves the narrative forward. Rather, it's an attempt to sketch out the character and motives of Charlotte, a woman who tries to escape her past in the South American country of Boca Grande.
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author: Iris Murdoch
name: Sara
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1980
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 07/19/07
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]]> 2043580 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:42:55 -0700
author: Sharon Salzberg
name: Sara
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 06/07
date added: 07/19/07
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Salzberg skillfully translates Buddhists ideas for the Western reader in plain, direct language. This book focuses on meta, the concept of lovingkindness. In particular, the chapter on equanimity helped me a great deal. This is an excellent and accessible guide to opening up to a more joyful and radiant heart.
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author: Joan Didion
name: Sara
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 06/07
date added: 07/19/07
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Didion is absolutely fearless. This record of her loss is unflinching. It's fascinating to understand the grieving process of someone so deeply rooted in her intellect as she tries to make sense of one of the most difficult emotional experiences that any human being will go through in his or her lifetime. I so admire the bravery of this incredible writer in tackling such a difficult and taboo subject.
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author: Joan Didion
name: Sara
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1970
rating: 5
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/19/07
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This book is simply brilliant. The fatalism of it's heroine, Maria Wyeth, is absolutely heart-wrenching as she slowly grows more and more tired of life. Didion is a surgeon, each sentence like a scalpel cutting away a cancerous tumor. No one can match her for brutal honesty. While it's a very quick read at just over 200 pages, it deals a swift but heavy blow.
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author: Emily Brontë
name: Sara
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1847
rating: 4
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author: Virginia Woolf
name: Sara
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1925
rating: 4
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author: Virginia Woolf
name: Sara
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1927
rating: 4
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author: Virginia Woolf
name: Sara
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1915
rating: 3
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]]> 2043506 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:38:24 -0700
author: Isak Dinesen
name: Sara
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2001
rating: 2
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author: Isak Dinesen
name: Sara
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Sara
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1926
rating: 4
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author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Sara
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1929
rating: 3
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author: Jhumpa Lahiri
name: Sara
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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author: Jhumpa Lahiri
name: Sara
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> 2043438 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:36:21 -0700
author: Vikram Seth
name: Sara
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> 2043395 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:35:13 -0700
author: Salman Rushdie
name: Sara
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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