Laura Bang's Profile

165 ratings (3.78 avg)
116 reviews
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Laura's Bookshelves

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romance ‎(39)
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war ‎(12)
bibliophilia ‎(11)
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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura Bang is currently reading:

The Masqueraders

by Georgette Heyer

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May 27, 2012 02:26pm

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Bolax, imp or angel--which?

by Josephine Culpeper

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May 09, 2012 12:25pm

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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

by Richard Holmes

bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction, science

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Aug 15, 2010 01:51pm

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Laura's Recent Updates

Laura Bang is currently reading: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer	My rating:
May 27, 2012 02:26pm
Laura Bang gave to: The Atlas of New Librarianship by R. David Lankes read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 27, 2012 02:25pm
Laura Bang marked as to-read: Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
May 23, 2012 05:10am
Laura Bang marked as to-read: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach	My rating:
May 19, 2012 04:10pm
Laura Bang gave to: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine read in May, 2012	My rating:
I've read this book several times and it is never any less of a delight to read. It's warm and familiar, like a well-worn old blanket, and I love to wrap myself in this story when I'm feeling down.
May 12, 2012 12:04pm · see review
Laura Bang is currently reading: Bolax, imp or angel--which? by Josephine Culpeper	My rating:
May 09, 2012 12:25pm
Laura Bang marked as to-read: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams	My rating:
May 08, 2012 04:26pm
Laura Bang gave to: The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1) by Julie Kagawa (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 08, 2012 12:01pm
Laura Bang gave to: Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
(3.5 stars) Mirka is a strong-willed girl who dreams of fighting dragons and being a hero--and she also happens to be an Orthodox Jew. (I love the tongue-in-cheek tagline on the front cover: "Yet another troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl...more
May 05, 2012 02:35pm · see review
Laura Bang gave to: Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #3) by Dorothy L. Sayers read in April, 2012	My rating:
Rather a depressing mystery, on the whole. I mean, murder is always depressing, but even the resolution of this story didn't provide any satisfying closure or relief. Also, there was a lot of cringe-inducing racism. Still, it was well-written and the...more
Apr 30, 2012 05:48pm · see review

More of Laura's books…

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

tags: imagination

1,871 people liked it

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen

tags: aliteracy , books , classic , humor

18,053 people liked it