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	04/15 Anna is currently reading: Pere Goriot (Signet Classics) by Honoré de Balzac bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	03/20 Anna is currently reading: Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic and Witchcraft in Present-day England (Paperback) by T.M. Luhrmann bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	recommended for: Neopagans, anthropologists, people interested in intellectual habits read in February, 2007 add a comment

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April 15, 2007
	Anna is currently reading: Pere Goriot (Signet Classics) by Honoré de Balzac bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Anna gave to: Hedda Gabler (Paperback) by Henrik Johan Ibsen	my rating:
	recommended for: Everyone read in April, 2007 Anna said: "Truly horrifying and shocking. Hedda is a monster, but Ibsen makes us feel her wretched pain. " add a comment
	Anna gave to: Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert	my rating:
	recommended for: Everyone read in April, 2007 Anna said: "We all know Flaubert is awesome. " add a comment
April 12, 2007
	Anna gave to: Ghosts (Paperback) by Henrik Johan Ibsen	my rating:
	recommended for: people who want to read a really awesome play read in April, 2007 Anna said: "Much better than 'A Doll's House', dealing with some of the same themes in a more complex and morally ambiguous way. " add a comment
	Anna gave to: Agnes Grey (Thrift Edition) by Anne Brontë	my rating:
	recommended for: Governess enthusiasts read in April, 2007 Anna said: "What is the female equivalent of a prick? Agnes Grey. This book is not particularly worth reading unless you are really interested in the female authored 19th century social novel. Or governesses. Anne Bronte is a decent prose stylist but her cha...more " add a comment
April 04, 2007
	Anna gave to: A Doll's House (Paperback) by Henrik Johan Ibsen	my rating:
	recommended for: Feminists, thespians read in April, 2007 Anna said: "Powerful though ultimately so influential and pervasive that it's punch is somewhat diminished. Becomes slightly polemical at the end, somewhat justifiably. Does have the beautiful shadings and subtleties typical of Ibsen, worth rereading. " add a comment
	Anna gave to: The Diary of a Rapist (New York Review Books Classics) by Evan S. Connell	my rating:
	recommended for: Feminists, people interested in the criminal psyche read in March, 2007 Anna said: "Unsettling and provoking, with moments of sublime and succinct descriptive beauty. Highly recommended. " add a comment
March 28, 2007
	Anna gave to: Striptease (Paperback) by George Simenon	my rating:
	recommended for: fans of the roman dur read in March, 2007 Anna said: "A harsh examination of despair and the tragic constraints of woman's lives that produce it in '50s Cannes. " add a comment
March 22, 2007
	Anna gave to: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Paperback) by Yukio Mishima	my rating:
	recommended for: Freudians read in March, 2007 Anna said: "Has absolutely sublime moments. Really beautiful and brutal. " add a comment
March 20, 2007
	Anna marked as to-read: In Praise of Shadows (Paperback) by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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