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How to Cook Everythi... 07/03 Alison is currently reading:
How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by Mark Bittman
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David Foster Wallace... 07/02 Alison is currently reading:
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Stephen Burn
bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction
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Critical Essays on J... 06/16 Alison is currently reading:
Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates (Critical Essays on American Literature)
by Linda Wagner-Martin
bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction
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July 03
How to Cook Everythi... Alison is currently reading:
How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by Mark Bittman
bookshelves: currently-reading
my rating:
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Blueprint for Your L... Alison gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Blueprint for Your Library Marketing Plan: A Guide to Help You Survive And Thrive (Paperback)
by Patricia H. Fisher
bookshelves: libraryland, nonfiction
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read in July, 2009

Alison Alison said: "This is a very helpful guide to writing a marketing plan for a libary. In tandem with more sociologically-oriented books (like Marketing Today's Academic Library, or the Studying Students report from Rochester) you can write a great marketing plan. T...more "
The Best 30-minute R... Alison added:
The Best 30-minute Recipe: A Best Recipe Classic (Best Recipe Series)
by Cook's Illustrated
bookshelves: cookbooks, own_it
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recommended to Alison by: Cheap Healthy Good blog
read in June, 2009

Alison Alison said: "I haven't actually made anything from this yet, but there are lots of good tips and yummy-looking recipes. "
Queen of the Road: T... Alison gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own (Paperback)
by Doreen Orion (Goodreads author)
bookshelves: bookclub, nonfiction
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read in May, 2009

Alison Alison said: "This was a book that made me glad I'm in a book club. It's something I never would have picked up on my own (and I admit to not being ambivalent about having to read it) but I enjoyed it. Basically, it's the story of how the author and her husband bu...more "
July 02
The Odd Woman: A Nov... Alison gave 3 of 5 stars to:
The Odd Woman: A Novel (Paperback)
by Gail Godwin
bookshelves: fiction
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recommended to Alison by: Book Lust
read in July, 2009

Alison Alison said: "I read this right after "The Odd Women," by George Gissing, at the suggestion of Nancy Pearl in Book Lust.

The Odd Woman is set in the 70s, and focuses on Jane Clifford, a mid-30s, single professor of English Lit. The connection...more
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David Foster Wallace... Alison is currently reading:
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Stephen Burn
bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction
my rating:
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Girl in Landscape: A... Alison gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Girl in Landscape: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jonathan Lethem
bookshelves: audiobook, fiction
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recommended to Alison by: Book Lust
read in June, 2009

Alison Alison said: "This is another great Lethem novel. It is set in the future, at a time when the earth has become so polluted that we are setting up colonies on other planets. The novel follows the Marsh family, and in particular the daughter Pella. It picks up as th...more "
June 30
When You Are Engulfe... Alison marked as to-read:
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by David Sedaris
bookshelves: audiobook, to-read
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June 27
Understanding Exposu... Alison marked as to-read:
Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
by Bryan Peterson
bookshelves: to-read
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June 24
The Memory Keeper's... Alison gave 3 of 5 stars to:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Paperback)
by Kim Edwards
bookshelves: audiobook, fiction
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read in June, 2009

Alison Alison said: "This was pretty good. I finished it a few weeks ago and am stretching a little bit to remember what I thought of it. The novel opens with the birth of twins to a doctor and his wife; the doctor delivers the babies in the middle of a snowstorm, and di...more "
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