false 22 484 478 true 5755212 read 1 true 652767 currently-reading 5 true 652766 to-read 18 false 1033065 nomemoryofreadingthesebooks <![CDATA[Antoinette Maria added 'Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78799380 to: Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry (Paperback) by Leanne Shapton
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If you're a reader, you'll love this book. It flatters you and makes you feel exactly as discerning and sophisticated as you've always imagined. Too many books I read in translation leave me wondering if it's not the book I disliked but the translation. This book was so beautiful, so sublime, I want to become fluent in Italian so I can read him in the original. ]]> <![CDATA[Antoinette Maria added 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77436885 Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. 1) by Julia Child
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]]> <![CDATA[Antoinette Maria added 'Purple Hibiscus: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41346538 to: Purple Hibiscus: A Novel (Paperback) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A Peace Corps memoir actually worth reading. The author translates her deeply felt experience into excellent writing, It's also a first hand account of why birth is so dangerous in other countries, and how skilled birth attendants make a tremendous difference but it doesn't read like an academic text or like a propaganda. You know the outcome before the book is over but it's still a compelling journey. ]]> <![CDATA[Antoinette Maria added 'The Monsters of Templeton']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68491175 to: The Monsters of Templeton (Paperback) by Lauren Groff
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