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11/26
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One Art: Letters (Paperback) by Elizabeth Bishop bookshelves: currently-reading |
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06/16
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Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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"This is suppossed to be very funny --- the first campus comedy, apparently, which is a rather dubious distinction, as it's inevetiably a genre with its head up it ass --- but I hear it has one of the most accurately described hangovers in literature,...more
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recommended for: Most anybody
read in July, 2007
Diablevert said:
"Sarah Waters is a very good writer; he ability to evoke the physical past, the grit and gum and scent and stink of it, is damn rare, and she uses it to good effect, here. I can't say I enjoyed this book as much as Fingersmith, but then, in a way I do...more
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One Art: Letters (Paperback) by Elizabeth Bishop bookshelves: currently-reading |
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House Lights: A Novel (Hardcover) by Leah Hager Cohen bookshelves: recentlyread |
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recommended for: people who like buildungsroman set in West Cambridge?
read in November, 2007
Diablevert said:
"I liked this. The main character's house in this book was set in the very neighborhood I grew up in (though I was of the duplexes she could see from her window, and she of the large single family homes with the blue oval historical society plaques ou...more
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Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight (Hardcover) by Leah Hager Cohen |
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The Comforters (Revived Modern Classic)
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Night Watch (Paperback) by Terry Pratchett |
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recommended for: peeps who like Terry Pratchett
read in August, 2006
Diablevert said:
"Average Pratchett. Funny, some excellent set pieces, slightly more contrived that some of the other Guards books. A poor introduction, I think; the book forms a sort of prequel, and it's much more charming to read all the backstory if one already kno...more
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Speak,Memory (Paperback) by Vladimir Nabokov |
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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov |
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recommended for: Anyone
read in July, 1994
Diablevert said:
"Lolita is my favorite novel. Hmmm. Sounds banal, put that way. I'm tempted to both to gush and to sputter, but I don't think either would incline me to read a book I hadn't read. So I'll just say this: It's a book about a pedophile, which ought to ma...more
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