Best Releases of 2008
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Jessica's profile
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06/05
Jessica
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Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Stella Gibbons bookshelves: book-club, currently-reading |
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04/14
Jessica
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Paperback) by Billy Collins bookshelves: currently-reading |
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12/30
Jessica
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The Paris Review Interviews, I (Paris Review Interviews) by The Paris Review bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| June 30 | ||
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gave The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel (Hardcover) by Shannon Hale bookshelves: review-copy |
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| June 05 | ||
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gave Love Begins in Winter: Stories (P.S.) by Simon Van Booy bookshelves: review-copy |
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read in June, 2009
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1984 (Paperback) by George Orwell bookshelves: book-club, to-read |
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| May 21 | ||
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Jessica
marked as to-read:
The World in Half (Hardcover) by Cristina Henriquez (Goodreads author) bookshelves: to-read |
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recommended to Jessica by:
Medieval Bookworm
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback) by Mark Dunn bookshelves: to-read |
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| May 20 | ||
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Jessica
gave Harriet the Spy (Paperback) by Louise Fitzhugh |
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley
— Bessie Anderson Stanley
BookClub Epiphany
— 10 members
— last activity 4 hours, 22 min ago
We've been a bookclub for 6 years and want to keep in touch with our friends that have moved away.
Book Buying Addicts Anonymous
— 1094 members
— last activity 5 hours, 24 min ago
For the booklover who reads four or five books at a time, buys just as many at a time and who changes books like he/she changes his/her clothing. If ...more
Books I Loathed
— 1123 members
— last activity 11 hours, 25 min ago
This is a public forum for people to kvetch (cleanly, please) about books they absolutely hated, and for others to respond. Though nonfiction is certa...more
The Rory Gilmore Book Club
— 2153 members
— last activity 3 hours, 17 min ago
Reading is sexy! This group is for fans of literature and the Gilmore Girls. Join us for some witty banter, numerous pop culture references, and enlig...more
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