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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76639840
The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
byJean-Luc Hennig bookshelves: currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'Cafe Europa: Life After Communism']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78063040
Cafe Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
bySlavenka Drakulić bookshelves: currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75382944
to: A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)byCristina Nehring
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75382988
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Hardcover)
byGail Collins bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'Anna Karenina']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71554904
to: Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)byLeo Tolstoy
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<![CDATA[Miranda recommended the book
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother to
Morgan]]>
http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/566148
Miranda
recommended the book
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
to Morgan
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71555103
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (Paperback)
byRachel Cusk bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'The Golden Bowl']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68204005
to: The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics)byHenry James
Reading James is like exercising my brain.
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6330423
to: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (The Crosswicks Journal, Book 4)byMadeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle and her husband lived the era of my grandparents to the fullest. Both artists and what I might call "staunch" Americans (when that term used to denote a very specific set of values and goals) through World War II and the Cold War, their story seems old-fashioned to a reader in the 21st century. Yet the interiority of their marriage and their family life, which L'Engle shares in great detail with almost no self-consciousness but rather just a slight circumspection as a result of her deep sense of etiquette, is readily comprehensible to any reader who has felt romantic love. L'Engle's memoir is all the more tragic and touching as her husband is dying of cancer throughout her narration, and one cannot help but draw comparisons with Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. My unconditional recommendation of this book does come with a warning however: I found myself crying all over the city as I read, including cafes and multiple subway cars.
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<![CDATA[Miranda added 'On Beauty']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12655214
to: On Beauty (Paperback)byZadie Smith
Ultimately, E. M. Forster did it better.
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