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Catch-22
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The Natural Way t...
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recommended to Sarah by: my father, many years ago

Sarah Sarah said: "I'm teaching myself to draw using this book."

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Jan 11, 2010 03:07pm

 
The Brontës
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Sarah Sarah said: "I'm not reading this 1000-page book straight through...right now I'm just picking through sections at will. Impressively thorough so far!"

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Nov 29, 2009 05:24pm

 

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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Sarah rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
Sprig Muslin
by Georgette Heyer
read in April, 2013
Fairly delightful at points--quite funny, with charming characters.

3.5 stars, really, and could easily have been 4. My only reservation is that we didn't get to see enough of (view spoiler)[Hester and Gareth interacting after he was shot. I would ha...more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
" I wanted to like this more than I did. I loved "Middlesex," the last Eugenides novel I'd read. In "The Marriage Plot," the characters were going to college in the same era I did, and I found the academic and cultural preoccupations pretty vivid an... " Read more of this review »
Sarah rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
So, in brief: I think the writing is great--really lovely, vivid and figurative. Appealingly weird setup, strong characters, and an enjoyably ambiguous undercurrent of magical realism.

However...holy crap, [event that happened near the end of the book...more
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we decided to get together and finish my required textbook readings try to get through a book a week. also, "just for fun - inside jokes" is a horribl...more

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