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333 ratings | 81 reviews
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read (333)
currently-reading (1)
to-read (13)
wishlist-nonfiction (574)
fiction (202)
memoir (168)
biography (165)
women (115)
american-history (108)
world-war-ii (105)
wishlist-fiction (79)
middle-east (60)

historical-fiction (51)
western-europe (50)
politics (49)
africa (46)
world-history (41)
bad-trips (37)
pop-culture (34)
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russia (32)
medical-health (32)
indigenous-peoples (30)
children (29)

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latin-america (21)
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authors (19)
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vietnam-war (15)
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religion-theology (10)
flora (7)
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australasia (6)
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Sandra D is currently reading

	07/23 Sandra D is currently reading: The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller (Paperback) by Giles Milton bookshelves: currently-reading, memoir, world-history	my rating:
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July 24

Sandra D added:
The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (Hardcover)
by Nicholas Shrady
bookshelves: western-europe, wishlist-nonfiction

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July 23

Sandra D added:
Society's Child: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by Janis Ian
bookshelves: memoir, pop-culture, wishlist-nonfiction, women

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The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception (Paperback)
by Emmanuel Carrere, Linda Coverdale
bookshelves: true-crime

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Sandra D said: "Well-written, but repellent all the same. Mercifully, it was also very short. "

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July 22

Sandra D gave

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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 (Hardcover)
by Larry McMurtry
bookshelves: american-history, indigenous-peoples

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Sandra D added:
Beijing Coma: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Ma Jian
bookshelves: east-asia, fiction, wishlist-fiction

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The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny (Hardcover)
by Scott Anderson
bookshelves: bad-trips, biography, russia

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read in July, 2008

Sandra D said: "Amazing story, well told. I couldn't put it down. "

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July 20

Sandra D gave

to:
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia (Hardcover)
by Douglas Smith
bookshelves: biography, russia, women

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read in July, 2008

Sandra D said: "Tragic love story, history lessons on Russia's serf system and its noble class, plus the birth of Russian theatre. What's not to like?

Er, well, I can't put my finger on it right now, but something was off. It just didn't have that can'...more "

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July 19

Sandra D added:
A Very Unimportant Officer: Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele (Hardcover)
by Alexander Stewart
bookshelves: memoir, wishlist-nonfiction, world-war-i

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Sandra D's favorite quotes

"You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

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from Meredith

03/07/2008 08:50AM

Sandra, your list of books to read exhausts me even to go over it! When you finish all these books, you will have a Ph.D in history, I swear. I am in awe. Meredith

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