Kate's profile
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09/11
Kate
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Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (P.S.) by Rebecca Curtis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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08/06
Kate
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback) by William Easterly bookshelves: currently-reading |
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08/06
Kate
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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans (Paperback) by Thomas Brothers bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Can You Keep a Secret? (Mass Market Paperback) by Sophie Kinsella |
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read in January, 2009
Kate said:
"Not exactly a literary tour de force but perfect for an afternoon spent on the couch with a winter cold.
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Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) by Lalita Tademy |
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recommended for: people who love Louisiana
read in January, 2009
Kate said:
"The author uses actual family documents to weave a heartbreaking tale replete with loss in its many forms.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting, Third Edition (Paperback) by Heidi Murkoff |
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recommended for: anyone who wants to be paranoid and neurotic for 9 months
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Never Let Me Go (Paperback) by Kazuo Ishiguro bookshelves: books-to-slit-your-wrist-to |
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recommended to Kate by:
SF Reads shelf at the SF Public library
recommended for: Anyone whose lost anyone and had to keep going read in November, 2008
Kate said:
"A masterpiece of man's inhumanity to man, love lost and found, but most of all this book illustrates the loneliness of loss like none other that I've read. Ishiguro creates a sheltered world for his characters that juxtaposes with the normal real wo...more
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Kate
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The Body Artist: A Novel (Paperback) by Don DeLillo |
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Kate
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Underworld (Paperback) by Don DeLillo |
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Kate
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White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo |
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recommended to Kate by:
a professor who shall remain nameless
recommended for: people who are so insecure that they will say they liked it... read in February, 2000
Kate said:
"Don DeLillo is an egomaniac.
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| November 02, 2008 | ||||||||||||
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Kate
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Lost in Katrina (Hardcover) by Mikel Schaefer bookshelves: books-to-slit-your-wrist-to |
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read in November, 2008
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
Ghosts About Town (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 04/26/2008 03:11PM
description:
Short story set in post-Katrina New Orleans about a girl who "knows what it means to miss New Orleans."
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