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06/30
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The Historian (Paperback) by Elizabeth Kostova bookshelves: currently-reading |
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book-lover with a penchant for good grammar
recommended for: afficionados of horror, admirers of Gothic atmospherism read in July, 2008 
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"Vampires are the in thing these days, what with the proliferation of young adult novels (such as Eclipse) and adult fantasy & romance work (take Laurell K. Hamilton, for e...more
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04/22
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On Beauty (Paperback) by Zadie Smith bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in April, 2008
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Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Mystery (Book 6) by Elizabeth Peters |
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The Secrets of a Fire King (Paperback) by Kim Edwards |
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recommended for: quiet readers
read in August, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Tanya said:
"The stories here are elemental, drawing on themes of loss, exile, grief, marginalization. Edwards has taken the themes she explored in The Memory Keeper's Daughter and used ...more
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The Laughing Sutra (Paperback) by Mark Salzman |
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read in January, 1999
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Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (Paperback) by Mark Salzman |
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recommended for: painters, astronomers, the obsessed, and les ingenues
read in June, 2008
Tanya said:
"Hilarious! Endearing! The kind of kid you wished you could raise yourself.
I first encountered Salzman through his book, The Laughing Sutra, which was delightful and joyous and co...more " |
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The Historian (Paperback) by Elizabeth Kostova bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended to Tanya by:
book-lover with a penchant for good grammar
recommended for: afficionados of horror, admirers of Gothic atmospherism read in July, 2008
Tanya said:
"Vampires are the in thing these days, what with the proliferation of young adult novels (such as Eclipse) and adult fantasy & romance work (take Laurell K. Hamilton, for e...more
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback) by Elizabeth Gilbert |
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A traveler, a thinker, a tinkerer, and a wandering soul
recommended for: Those with hopes and those who've buried them too far down to remember read in June, 2008
Tanya said:
"I wanted to hate this book. I detest the entire genre of self-help and anything I can relate to it; I am put off by voyages of self-discovery that are more concerned with self-pity than with growth; I don't want to be told that I, too, can find the ...more
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On Beauty (Paperback) by Zadie Smith bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in April, 2008
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Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932) by Anaïs Nin bookshelves: beloved |
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A poet-cook who authors her own dreams
recommended for: Romantics, Poets, Lovers, Dreamers, and Friends read in December, 2007
Tanya said:
"Oh love! This is a beautiful, aching, tender book--a poem of a book--that says so much in so little. Nin's words mince across the page, pirouette from paragraph to paragraph, and then strip themselves bare and sweep into a frenzied, orchestrated ba...more
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Revenge of the Rose: A Novel (Hardcover) by Nicole Galland bookshelves: on-my-bookshelf |
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