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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women (Paperback) by Susan Douglas, Meredith Michaels bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women (Paperback) by Susan Douglas, Meredith Michaels bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Hamlet (Paperback) by William Shakespeare |
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) by Stephen King |
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The Color of Magic (Discworld, Book 1) by Terry Pratchett |
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Musical Tie-in Edition) by Gregory Maguire |
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The World According to Garp (Hardcover) by John Irving |
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recommended for: optimists, fatalists, realists
read in July, 2008 
Melissa said:
"wow. if ever a book encompassed/captured all that is life, this one did.
it's messy, beautiful, sometimes predictable...but most importantly (impressively) it is absolutely human. it broke my heart and comforted me. i loved it. " |
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"And never forget, there is memory." — John Irving | |
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"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore." — John Irving | |
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde bookshelves: to-read |
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Melissa's favorite quotes
"Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin (Everyman's Library))
— Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin (Everyman's Library))
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?... A book must be like an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
— Franz Kafka
"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. "
— Vladmir Nabokov
— Vladmir Nabokov
"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore."
— John Irving
— John Irving
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Intend to promote my books and writings...
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Daily Diary
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A chance to let others know about the world a book created for you on a particular day and your thoughts and feelings while reading that day. A discu...more
The Life and Times of Phil D'Amato
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— last activity 01/16/2008 12:24PM
for fans and would-be fans of Dr. Phil D'Amato, the fictional NYPD forensic detective who has appeared in my novels and short fiction, and in audioboo...more
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Yay! I'm so glad that you loved The World According to Garp. Irving is one of my favorite authors. :)
Melissa, how well I remember your state of South Carolina; I went through basic training there, at Fort Jackson near Columbia. Keep reading, Melissa.
Yay! I'm so glad that you loved The World According to Garp. Irving is one of my favorite authors. :)
Melissa, how well I remember your state of South Carolina; I went through basic training there, at Fort Jackson near Columbia. Keep reading, Melissa.
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