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| OMG! This was such a stunning book to read! It happens in real life that mothers and children are imprisoned for years and some - think Jacey Dugard - have written memoirs about their experiences. ROOM is fiction, the story is narrated by a small ...more | |
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| I'm as little an entrepreneur as this author so I was fascinated when such an unlikely candidate decided to buy and run a local deli in Brooklyn. There were reasons for the decision - helping his Korean mother-in-law stabilize her income and to prov...more | |
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| This is such an amazing book - amazing because it opened my eyes to something I knew absolutely nothing about. I'm not particularly scientific so to learn that cell lines can exist "forever" and continue to grow prolifically for countless generation...more | |
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| I just finished reading this novel and can't wait to talk to someone about it. It is amazing! As I read further and further I gave up more and more of my daily life just so that I could turn the pages faster as I rushed to the end. Looking back, I...more | |
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Fire Monks: Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara
by Colleen Morton Busch
read in August, 2011
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| This was a wonderful read, however poignant. I especially enjoy memoir and seem to read a lot in that genre. This book was a double feature - about a family's stay in China for almost three years and all the complicated cultural nuances, but with a...more | |
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| It broke my heart to read this book, but I consider it the most important book I've read so far this year. The girls are commercially sexually exploited children and teenagers in the United States. They are trafficked for drugs and other commoditie...more | |
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