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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Paperback) by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Bombardiers: A Novel (Paperback) by Po Bronson bookshelves: contemporary-fiction |
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Granta 101 (Paperback) by Jason Cowley bookshelves: journal |
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WALL STREET DIET, THE: The Surprisingly Simple Weight Loss Plan for Hardworking People Who Don't Have Time to Diet (Hardcover) by Heather Bauer bookshelves: non-personal-non-fiction |
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Fire in the Blood (Hardcover) by Irène Némirovsky bookshelves: contemporary-fiction |
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read in June, 2009
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"Reminded me of an old-fashioned novel of manners, with a slightly modernized kick. French folks living in a village, with an undercurrent of the evil that men (and women) do.
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Dear America)" by Joyce Hansen bookshelves: kid-lit |
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read in June, 2009
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"A good (fictional) first-hand account of the life of a slave immediately after the Civil War. I read it, then passed it on to my 9-year-old daughter, who loved it.
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Sacred Time: A Novel (Paperback) by Ursula Hegi bookshelves: contemporary-fiction |
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The Senator's Wife (Hardcover) by Sue Miller bookshelves: contemporary-fiction |
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BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (Paperback) by Lisa Jervis (Goodreads author) bookshelves: zines |
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read in June, 2009
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"A retrospective on my favorite magazine of all time. Some of the pieces haven't aged as well as others, but still--feminism and pop culture--what's not to love?
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A Live Coal In The Sea (Paperback) by Madeleine L'Engle bookshelves: contemporary-fiction |
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read in May, 2009
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"Got somewhat confused between the present and the various pasts, but overall I enjoyed this story of a granddaughter trying to understand her family's complicated history, and the choices that her grandparents made to keep certain secrets.
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Paperback) by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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"War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy."
— William Faulkner
— William Faulkner
"That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents."
— Ursula Hegi
— Ursula Hegi
"You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations."
— Alice Munro (Open Secrets: Stories)
— Alice Munro (Open Secrets: Stories)
"I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale : A Novel)
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale : A Novel)
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