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Adrienne marked as to-read:
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Adrienne rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake(MaddAddamTrilogy, #1)
by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Finished this one on my second attempt. Didn't realize that it was a trilogy, but luckily I have the sequel and Atwood just published the finale. It took me awhile to care about this story, and the language didn't dazzle me quite as much as her other...more
Adrienne marked as to-read:
Call the Nurse by Mary J MacLeod
Adrienne rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Canadian Gardener by Harris Marjorie
Conversational book on gardening by a Canadian expert that teaches. The pictures of gardens across the country are a treat. Because they are real, they felt real and not gimmicky like so many other gardening books I perused.
Adrienne is on page 89 of 374 of Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake(MaddAddamTrilogy, #1)
by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Adrienne rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Nonstop Garden by Stéphanie Cohen
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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
More of Adrienne's books…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Voltaire
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire

Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

Henry David Thoreau
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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2013 Reading Challenge
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Adrienne has read 6 books toward her goal of 25 books.
 
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2011 Reading Challenge
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Adrienne has completed her goal of reading 55 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
 
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2012 Reading Challenge
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Adrienne has completed her goal of reading 12 books for the 2012 Reading Challenge!
 
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