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08/10
Jodi
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists (Hardcover) by Sue Roe bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| August 10 | ||
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Appetite for Life (Paperback) by Noel Riley Fitch bookshelves: nonfiction |
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recommended for: People who have trouble sleeping
read in August, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap 
Jodi said:
"Man, did this book blow. How can you take a life like Julia Child's - worked in the early version of the CIA during WWII, started a new career as a chef at 39 and became a famous food author and presenter - and make it totally boring? I'm not sure ...more
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| July 18 | ||
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover) by Karen Abbott bookshelves: biography, nonfiction |
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recommended for: Everyone interested in historical discussions of brothels!
read in July, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Jodi said:
"Great read! Fun, wild tear through Chicago at the turn of the century. I can't decide whether these sisters were early feminists with a modern view of sexuality who conquered a male dominated profession, OR traitors to their sex who got rich off of...more
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The Singing Creek where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley (Paperback) by Opal Stanley Whiteley, Benjamin Hoff bookshelves: biography, nonfiction |
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| June 25 | ||
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (Hardcover) by Susan Cheever bookshelves: biography |
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recommended for: Anyone interested in literary swingers
read in June, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Jodi said:
"This was an interesting book - I learned a lot about one of my favorite authors - Louisa May Alcott and the other authors I was forced to read in American Literature class in high school. If teachers started out the semester explaining that Emerson ...more
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Jodi
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists (Hardcover) by Sue Roe bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| May 22 | ||
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McIlhenny's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire (Hardcover) by Jeffrey Rothfeder bookshelves: nonfiction |
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read in June, 2008
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| April 12 | ||
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback) by Elizabeth Gilbert |
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read in March, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Jodi said:
"This is a pretty quick read and fairly entertaining. But I think I would find the author personally annoying. It takes some serious narcissism to be able to focus on nothing other than yourself, non stop, every second, of every day, for over a year...more
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover) by Barbara Kingsolver bookshelves: nonfiction |
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read in March, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Jodi said:
"Not bad - I would have liked a little more actual description of how they went about planting and farming and a little less preaching about global warming hysteria. Still, she has a point about eating fewer pesticides and hormones and the tomatoes w...more
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| January 23 | ||
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Einstein in Berlin (Paperback) by Thomas Levenson bookshelves: biography |
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read in May, 2008
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| October 25, 2007 | ||
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Infidel (Hardcover) by Ayaan Hirsi Ali bookshelves: biography |
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