Laura's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/70686 en-US Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:03:26 -0700 60 Laura's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 20878393 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:03:26 -0700 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
author: Elizabeth Gilbert
name: Laura
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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date added: 06/09/08
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]]> 14565731 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:13:23 -0700 <![CDATA[Slam]]> Slam
author: Nick Hornby
name: Laura
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/24/08
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review:
I liked it, but not as much as his other books.
]]> 906499 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:41 -0800 <![CDATA[Infinite Jest]]> Infinite Jest
author: David Foster Wallace
name: Laura
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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date added: 02/04/08
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review:
I got bored.
]]> 14565477 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:07:28 -0800 <![CDATA[Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time]]> Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
author: Rob Sheffield
name: Laura
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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date added: 02/04/08
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review:
Sweet. Relevant. Dig it.
]]> 14565426 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:06:10 -0800 <![CDATA[Middlesex]]> Middlesex
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Laura
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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date added: 02/04/08
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review:
Love it!
]]> 14565279 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:04:46 -0800 <![CDATA[The Virgin Suicides]]> The Virgin Suicides
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Laura
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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date added: 02/04/08
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review:
Yay!
]]> 1230572 Thu, 24 May 2007 13:00:17 -0700 <![CDATA[All the Sundays Yet to Come: A Skater's Journey]]> All the Sundays Yet to Come: A Skater's Journey
author: Kathryn Bertine
name: Laura
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2003
rating: 2
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date added: 05/24/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:
It's a really interesting topic (being physically and emotionally broken down by the profesional skating industry), but I wish Bertine had done a couple more rounds of serious editing before this was published to weed out some of the tedious reminiscences of the "good old days" and to give the story a more defined direction.
]]> 1137453 Wed, 09 May 2007 23:05:21 -0700 <![CDATA[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ]]> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
author: Mark Haddon
name: Laura
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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date added: 05/09/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907781 Tue, 08 May 2007 13:16:44 -0700 <![CDATA[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close]]> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
author: Jonathan Safran Foer
name: Laura
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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date added: 05/08/07
shelves: favorites
review:
I couldn't stop reading it. It's a heavy subject, but it never gets bogged down.
]]> 907598 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:41:25 -0700 <![CDATA[A Room of One's Own (Annotated)]]> A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Laura
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1929
rating: 3
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907604 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:40:59 -0700 <![CDATA[Uncle Tom's Children (Perennial Classics)]]> Uncle Tom's Children (Perennial Classics)
author: Richard Wright
name: Laura
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907919 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:37:02 -0700 <![CDATA[To Kill a Mockingbird]]> To Kill a Mockingbird
author: Harper Lee
name: Laura
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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date added: 05/03/07
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review:

]]> 907921 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:36:37 -0700 <![CDATA[1984]]> 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Laura
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 907929 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:36:14 -0700 <![CDATA[The Giver]]> The Giver
author: Lois Lowry
name: Laura
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907974 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:35:57 -0700 <![CDATA[Where the Sidewalk Ends]]> Where the Sidewalk Ends
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Laura
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1974
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/03/07
shelves: nostalgia
review:

]]> 907983 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:34:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Ender's Game (Ender's Game series, Book 1)]]> Ender's Game (Ender's Game series, Book 1)
author: Orson Scott Card
name: Laura
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 908147 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:34:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Dandelion Wine]]> Dandelion Wine
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Laura
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 908187 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:33:51 -0700 <![CDATA[The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)]]> The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
name: Laura
average rating: 3.29
book published: 1850
rating: 2
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 908191 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:33:24 -0700 <![CDATA[The Odyssey]]> The Odyssey
author: Homer
name: Laura
average rating: 3.77
book published: 600
rating: 3
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 908198 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:32:45 -0700 <![CDATA[Beowulf: A New Verse Translation]]> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
author: Anonymous
name: Laura
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1957
rating: 3
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 908205 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:32:17 -0700 <![CDATA[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]> Their Eyes Were Watching God
author: Zora Neale Hurston
name: Laura
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1937
rating: 2
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date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 908235 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:31:51 -0700 <![CDATA[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
author: Maya Angelou
name: Laura
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1983
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 05/03/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 908643 Thu, 03 May 2007 16:30:56 -0700 <![CDATA[Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public ... Pres (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)]]> Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public ... Pres (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
author: Allen Ginsberg
name: Laura
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/03/07
shelves: favorites
review:
Just knowing that this book is on my shelf makes me smile. A lot. It's beautiful.
]]> 908375 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:52:50 -0700 <![CDATA[The Cookie Sutra: An Ancient Treatise: that Love Shall Never Grow Stale. Nor Crumble.]]> The Cookie Sutra: An Ancient Treatise: that Love Shall Never Grow Stale. Nor Crumble.
author: Edward Jaye
name: Laura
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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date added: 04/26/07
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review:
I may never be able to close my eyes again.
]]> 908308 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:38:34 -0700 <![CDATA[The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing]]> The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
author: Melissa Bank
name: Laura
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 908194 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:27:21 -0700 <![CDATA[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Laura
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1890
rating: 4
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date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 908154 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:23:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)]]> Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Laura
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1953
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907928 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:03:52 -0700 <![CDATA[The Secret Life of Bees]]> The Secret Life of Bees
author: Sue Monk Kidd
name: Laura
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907853 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:58:50 -0700 <![CDATA[The Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 2)]]> The Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 2)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Laura
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907851 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:58:44 -0700 <![CDATA[The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 3)]]> The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 3)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Laura
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907849 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:58:43 -0700 <![CDATA[The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1)]]> The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Laura
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1985
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907842 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:58:13 -0700 <![CDATA[The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)]]> The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Laura
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907835 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:57:45 -0700 <![CDATA[The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)]]> The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Laura
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907833 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:57:29 -0700 <![CDATA[The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)]]> The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Laura
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1995
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907794 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:54:31 -0700 <![CDATA[Running with Scissors: A Memoir]]> Running with Scissors: A Memoir
author: Augusten Burroughs
name: Laura
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907592 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:40:12 -0700 <![CDATA[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]> The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
author: Tom Wolfe
name: Laura
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1975
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 907585 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:38:59 -0700 <![CDATA[Fences]]> Fences
author: August Wilson
name: Laura
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907581 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:38:39 -0700 <![CDATA[The Book of Merlyn]]> The Book of Merlyn
author: T.H. White
name: Laura
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1983
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907576 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:38:05 -0700 <![CDATA[The Once and Future King]]> The Once and Future King
author: T.H. White
name: Laura
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1958
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907573 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:37:52 -0700 <![CDATA[Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust (Modern Library)]]> Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust (Modern Library)
author: Nathanael West
name: Laura
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1998
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907569 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:37:33 -0700 <![CDATA[All the King's Men (Harvest Book)]]> All the King's Men (Harvest Book)
author: Robert Penn Warren
name: Laura
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1946
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907565 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:37:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Ghost Singer: A Novel]]> Ghost Singer: A Novel
author: Anna Lee Walters
name: Laura
average rating: 3.25
book published: 1994
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907563 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:36:59 -0700 <![CDATA[Meridian]]> Meridian
author: Alice Walker
name: Laura
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1976
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907559 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:36:40 -0700 <![CDATA[The Partly Cloudy Patriot]]> The Partly Cloudy Patriot
author: Sarah Vowell
name: Laura
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 907556 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:36:27 -0700 <![CDATA[Hocus Pocus]]> Hocus Pocus
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Laura
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1990
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907553 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:36:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Slaughterhouse-Five]]> Slaughterhouse-Five
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Laura
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1969
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907548 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:35:42 -0700 <![CDATA[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain Library)]]> A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain Library)
author: Mark Twain
name: Laura
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1889
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907547 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:35:23 -0700 <![CDATA[Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)]]> Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)
author: Mark Twain
name: Laura
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1872
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907543 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:35:10 -0700 <![CDATA[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)]]> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)
author: Mark Twain
name: Laura
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1884
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907539 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:34:35 -0700 <![CDATA[The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)]]> The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Laura
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1937
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907537 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:34:17 -0700 <![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings]]> The Lord of the Rings
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Laura
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1955
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907534 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:34:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]> Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Laura
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1975
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907531 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:33:32 -0700 <![CDATA[Kingdom of Fear]]> Kingdom of Fear
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: Laura
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907528 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:33:18 -0700 <![CDATA[Songs of the Doomed : More Notes on the Death of the American Dream]]> Songs of the Doomed : More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: Laura
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907523 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:33:01 -0700 <![CDATA[Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems (Signet Classics)]]> Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems (Signet Classics)
author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
name: Laura
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1961
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907518 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:32:32 -0700 <![CDATA[Hundred Secret Senses]]> Hundred Secret Senses
author: Amy Tan
name: Laura
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907514 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:32:00 -0700 <![CDATA[The Joy Luck Club]]> The Joy Luck Club
author: Amy Tan
name: Laura
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907512 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:31:53 -0700 <![CDATA[The Kitchen God's Wife]]> The Kitchen God's Wife
author: Amy Tan
name: Laura
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1991
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907509 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:31:40 -0700 <![CDATA[Le Voleur D'Enfants (Easy Reader S.)]]> Le Voleur D'Enfants (Easy Reader S.)
author: Jules Supervielle
name: Laura
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1988
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907502 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:31:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Tortilla Flat (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> Tortilla Flat (Penguin Modern Classics)
author: John Steinbeck
name: Laura
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907500 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:30:18 -0700 <![CDATA[Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition)]]> Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition)
author: John Steinbeck
name: Laura
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1937
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907497 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:29:52 -0700 <![CDATA[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)]]> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
author: Muriel Spark
name: Laura
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907495 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:29:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Junk English]]> Junk English
author: Ken Smith
name: Laura
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: thumbsup
review:

]]> 907493 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:29:25 -0700 <![CDATA[Frankenstein]]> Frankenstein
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: Laura
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1818
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/26/07
shelves: school
review:

]]> 907488 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:28:48 -0700 <![CDATA[The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)]]>