false 71 877 285 true 5642827 read 4 true 4403442 currently-reading 562 true 4403441 to-read 26 true 5370621 gave-up-on 207 false 5239553 1980-onwards 191 false 5287801 british-author 112 false 5239673 child-or-teen 57 false 5239550 1902-1979 57 false 5239502 historical-fiction 56 false 5287755 american-author 55 false 5381410 5-star 32 false 5239421 1837-1901 32 false 5239677 non-fiction 32 false 6720882 comedic-humorous 31 false 5303457 for-school 24 false 5287675 crime-mystery-fiction 24 false 5239554 other-cultures 15 false 5287725 war-and-conflict 13 false 5365529 fairy-tale-myth-legend-and-folklore 13 false 5336476 modern-gothic 9 false 5239478 pre-1837 9 false 5287706 play-or-tvfilmscript 8 false 5287804 australasian-author 7 false 5376377 irish-author 7 false 5376379 french-author 6 false 7287322 cookery 5 false 7319272 wwii-fiction 3 false 7264577 firstreads 3 false 7319262 wwi-fiction 3 false 6612608 canadian-author 2 false 8253014 school-teaching-fic 1 false 7256103 scandinavian-author http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5331-the-title-game Lauren made a comment in the The Next Best Book Club group:

The Waves by Virginia Woolf ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/246145-dj-s-victorian-neo-victorian-not-quite-victorian-and-not-quite-either-ch Lauren made a comment in the Victorians! group:

DJ wrote: "Why do you say that?
I have wanted to read it forever and I had just missed the discussion as I joined ,so I thought"Why Not?"."

Oh, just that I've tried it about three times and always found it terribly long-winded. Good luck! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79040636 Emily Dickinson (Everyman's Poetry Series) by Emily Dickinson
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For English Lit class. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/245756-happy-thanksgiving Lauren made a comment in the Victorians! group:

I wish us Brits would celebrate it, or something similar. Seems the Americans have far more holidays and are more family-orientated. Shame really.

Anyway, happy thanksgiving - for tomorrow, apparently! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/242867-boof-s-victorian-reading-challenge-2010 Lauren made a comment in the Victorians! group:

Do you think Shirley was under the influence of Gaskell's industrial novels? I know they were friends.

I was interested to hear that, until Shirley's publication, the name had only been masculine. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77829397 The Hospital at the End of the World (Paperback) by Joe Niemczura
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A First Reads win. Thanks, Joe :-) ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78947760 The Finest Type of English Womanhood (Paperback) by Rachel Heath
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/245364-rebecca-s-victorian-challenge-2010 Lauren made a comment in the Victorians! group:

Rebecca wrote: "Lauren I have heard nothing but that I need to read Jane Eyre because its so fabulous. So I am excited about it. "

I think it's one of those books that is impossible to overhype. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78879505 Education, Edukation, Edukashun (Paperback) by James Rainsford
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