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	09/15 shiv is currently reading: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover) by Julie Powell bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	04/10 shiv is currently reading: The Salterton Trilogy (Paperback) by Robertson Davies bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	03/19 shiv is currently reading: Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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September 15
	shiv is currently reading: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover) by Julie Powell bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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August 08
	shiv gave to: Breaking Dawn (Twilight Series, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer	my rating:
	shiv said: "i don't wish to imply that i didn't enjoy this book, but it's like it existed in a completely different universe than the other books; really, it seemed to me like an epic fanfic written by someone who managed to capture meyer's writing style quite a...more " add a comment
	shiv gave to: Eclipse (Twilight Series, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer bookshelves: fiction, youngadult	my rating:
	shiv said: "actual character development! my word! still horrifyingly addictive; it will, however, never be mistaken for literature. " add a comment
August 04
	shiv gave to: New Moon (Twilight Series, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer bookshelves: fiction, youngadult	my rating:
	shiv said: "mope, mope, mope, mope, mope!! also, motorcycles and werewolves. indulgent, but still strangely addictive. " add a comment
July 30
	shiv gave to: Twilight (Twilight Series, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer bookshelves: fiction, youngadult	my rating:
	shiv said: "okay. so, let me preface this that i never actually intended to read this book; i bought it as a gift for a friend of mine who was in the hospital, figuring that it would work ok in tandem with the morphine. he tore through it, finding it--in his...more " add a comment
July 27
	shiv gave to: Fool on the Hill (Paperback) by Matt Ruff bookshelves: fiction	my rating:
	shiv said: "twee, irrefutably. but what i wouldn't give to live in their universe! " add a comment
July 22
	shiv gave to: Empire Falls (Paperback) by Richard Russo bookshelves: fiction	my rating:
	shiv said: "400 pages of setup. 100 pages of "action." and never a dull moment, amazingly. " add a comment
July 21
	shiv gave to: Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City (Kiki Strike, Book 1) by Kirsten Miller bookshelves: fiction, youngadult	my rating:
	shiv said: "i read this book immediately after finishing the twilight saga; as such, it ended up being kind of a study in contrasts. in one corner, we had bella swan, whose major aspirations included becoming immortal and spending eternity with her One True Love...more " add a comment
July 15
	shiv gave to: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith bookshelves: fiction	my rating:
	shiv said: "charming, but i'm not quite sure what all the fuss is about... ...except the fact that jill scott will be playing the lead in the film version. that does bring me a rather inexplicable joy. " add a comment

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