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Ivy is currently reading
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07/09
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Midnight's Children (Paperback) by Salman Rushdie bookshelves: currently-reading |
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07/07
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By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder bookshelves: currently-reading, kiddie_lit, newbery_medal |
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Ivy said:
"I visited the Ingall's homestead in DeSmet, SD 07/04/08 and purchased this book in the gift shop. It was wonderful to see the real place and the trees Pa planted are still there!
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04/03
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell bookshelves: big_read, currently-reading |
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Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right (Hardcover) by Brian Patrick Mitchell bookshelves: to-read |
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The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show (Hardcover) by Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Sally Swift bookshelves: to-read |
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Gorgeously Green: Every Girl's Guide to an Earth-Friendly Life (Paperback) by Sophie Uliano bookshelves: to-read |
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The Story of My Life (Bantam Classic) by Helen Keller bookshelves: life_stories |
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Ivy said:
"Helen Keller inspired my young mind. I wanted to learn sign language and become an educator of the deaf as a result of her story.
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback) by Doris Kearns Goodwin bookshelves: to-read |
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Midnight's Children (Paperback) by Salman Rushdie bookshelves: currently-reading |
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In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback) by Julia Alvarez bookshelves: nbcca_finalist |
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The Natural (Paperback) by Bernard Malamud bookshelves: general_fiction |
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By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder bookshelves: currently-reading, kiddie_lit, newbery_medal |
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Ivy said:
"I visited the Ingall's homestead in DeSmet, SD 07/04/08 and purchased this book in the gift shop. It was wonderful to see the real place and the trees Pa planted are still there!
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Sometimes I Dream in Italian (Paperback) by Rita Ciresi bookshelves: general_fiction |
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read in July, 2008
Ivy said:
"Holy Ravioli! This was a stinker!
I'm an Italian-American so I thought this would be a fun read. It wasn't. The only good thing I can say about is that it is a quick read. " |
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Ivy's favorite quotes
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges
— Jorge Luis Borges
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx
— Groucho Marx
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? Good God, we would also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill-fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."
— Franz Kafka
— Franz Kafka
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