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The Woman Upstairs is an occasion to reawaken a literary hot button that I love: the unlikeable character. Plenty of people hated The Emperor’s Children for the same reason they hated The Corrections: couldn’t relate to/sympathize with the charact...
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What would happen if Cory Doctorow attempted to rewrite The DaVinci Code? It would probably come out something like this: an odd, quirky bookstore with a mysterious clientele, a secret society, encrypted books promising eternal life, and a bunch o...
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| I was both excited and worried to read Rose Under Fire: excited because I loved Code Name Verity so much, and worried for the same reason - how would it compare? To further complicate matters, I listened to most of Code Name Verity on audio, only swi...more | |
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Born Weird
by Andrew Kaufman (Goodreads Author)
recommended to Jenny by:
Jess Horvath
read in June, 2013
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I <3 Andrew Kaufman. Born Weird isn't a love story like All My Friends Are Superheroes, but it inhabits the same whimsical, charming, go-with-the-flow world. In this case, the Weird siblings - Richard, Lucy, Angie, Abba, and Kent - all received "bl...more |
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| I read this just a couple days before arriving in Paris, and was able to take advantage of many of the tidbits of advice on French manners (and French pastries. Of course). Lebovitz's humor isn't a perfect match for my own, and there were at least th...more | |
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| Read this just before arriving in Paris. It's not a travel guide per se (though there is information in the back matter about museums and other attractions), but is, as it says, a literary (and historical) guide to Paris, providing a brief overview o...more | |
“Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.”
― Lemony Snicket
― Lemony Snicket
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
“...it is not news that we live in a world
Where beauty is unexplainable
And suddenly ruined
And has its own routines. We are often far
From home in a dark town, and our griefs
Are difficult to translate into a language
Understood by others.”
― Charlie Smith
Where beauty is unexplainable
And suddenly ruined
And has its own routines. We are often far
From home in a dark town, and our griefs
Are difficult to translate into a language
Understood by others.”
― Charlie Smith
Insatiable Booksluts
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A gathering place for fans and contributors of the blog http://insatiablebooksluts.com
Simmons GSLIS Book Group
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— last activity Apr 04, 2013 06:39am
Professor Mary Wilkins Jordan founded the GSLIS Book Group in February 2011. Its purpose is to bring GSLIS students together once a month for somethin...more
Robbins Library Community Reads and Book Club
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— last activity Aug 02, 2012 03:05pm
This group is for discussing the Arlington, MA "Community Reads" pick as well as book club books throughout the year. Arlington residents, Robbins and...more
The Welcoming Bookshelf
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— last activity Aug 28, 2008 03:29pm
This is the goodreads site for fans and readers of The Welcoming Bookshelf, the literary corner of the blog Café Mot (www.cafemot.com). It exists to f...more
Ask John Green - January 23, 2013
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Join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 for a special discussion with award winning author John Green. John will be discussing his work, including his...more
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