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July 25
	Rebecca gave to: Native Speaker (Paperback) by Chang-Rae Lee	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Rebecca said: "I'm surprised at how uneven this book is--the writing is very inconsistent, and the characterizations are thin and uncompelling. As for the plot, I can only assume that it was written with selling the movie rights in mind? It borders on the ridicul...more " add a comment
July 20
	Rebecca marked as to-read: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback) by Alexandra Fuller bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Rebecca gave to: Midnight Mass and Other Stories (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Rebecca said: "Refreshingly unAmerican. " add a comment
July 18
	Rebecca gave to: Scribbling the Cat (Paperback) by Alexandra Fuller	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Rebecca said: "This was an unplanned read for me, and therefore I had no expectations--so rare and lovely. A window into Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique--the book started off casually enough, but gathered more and more around it as it continued. A fascinating...more " add a comment
July 16
	Rebecca gave to: The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) by John Cheever	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Rebecca said: "Only my intense admiration for “The Swimmer” could have kept me reading this book for an entire 150 pages. I found it deeply uncompelling, probably because there is a problem with causality: there is very little of it. The opening chapter descr...more " add a comment
July 11
	Rebecca added: The Delights of Turkey (Paperback) by Edouard Roditi	my rating:
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	Rebecca gave to: Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (Paperback) by A.S. Byatt	my rating:
	read in July, 2008 Rebecca said: "Some magnificent imagining in "Cold," but in general this collection is too far away from reality for me. A lot of fairy tale here, and not enough that is recognizably human. " add a comment
July 03
	Rebecca marked as to-read: The Boat (Hardcover) by Nam Le bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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	Rebecca added: White People (Paperback) by Allan Gurganus	my rating:
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	Rebecca gave to: Living by Fiction (Paperback) by Annie Dillard	my rating:
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