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December 26
	Liza gave to: The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback) by Franz Kafka bookshelves: fiction	my rating:
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October 30
	Liza gave to: The Virgin Suicides (Paperback) by Jeffrey Eugenides bookshelves: fiction	my rating:
	read in August, 2007 Liza said: "I'm rereading it, and the second time around it's actually funny, not so sweet, and full of competing narratives. The humor comes from the fact that its all gossip, the grimness too. It's everyone else's point of view except for the dead girls', and ...more " add a comment
	Liza gave to: Landing (Hardcover) by Emma Donoghue	my rating:
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	Liza gave to: The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories (Paperback) by Emma Donoghue	my rating:
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	Liza gave to: Slammerkin (Paperback) by Emma Donoghue	my rating:
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	Liza gave to: Life Mask (Paperback) by Emma Donoghue	my rating:
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	Liza gave to: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (Paperback) by Emma Donoghue	my rating:
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	Liza gave to: Slammerkin (Hardcover) by Emma Donoghue	my rating:
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August 27
	Liza gave to: Jane Eyre (Paperback) by Charlotte Brontë bookshelves: fiction	my rating:
	read in August, 2007 Liza said: "I read this again, because I wanted to read The Wide Sargasso Sea. So I picked both up and read this during a week of family vacation. I kind of loved it. I think I have a lot more patience as a reader now than when i was in college. I was shocked, s...more " add a comment
August 17
	Liza gave to: Disgrace (Paperback) by J.M. Coetzee bookshelves: fiction	my rating:
	read in August, 2007 Liza said: "I liked it. Taut prose, fraught world. It's frustrating and tangly, but in a good way. Lurie's like Humbert with a PhD in the opening of the book, but then Coetzee pushes him further and further into the realm of penance. Thing is, his penance is wr...more " see all 1 comments

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