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	09/30 Alicia is currently reading: A Family Daughter: A Novel (Hardcover) by Maile Meloy bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
	Alicia said: "I am slogging through this thing, trying desperately (okay, well, not that desperately) to like it. It's just that the the whole sex with family members thing really traumatizes me. I will report back when I have actually read all of it, if that ever...more " add a comment
	09/30 Alicia is currently reading: Stargirl (Paperback) by Jerry Spinelli bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	09/01 Alicia is currently reading: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover) by Barbara Kingsolver bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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September 30

Alicia gave

to:
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant (Hardcover)
by Jenni Ferrari-Adler (Goodreads author!)

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recommended for: people who love to eat alone & people who hate to eat alone & people who are scared to eat alone
read in September, 2008

Alicia said: "if this cover design wasn't so lovely, would I like this book less? Err, maybe. Okay, okay, that isn't true. I did like this book, but not in the ways I expected to. It seems to be a lot of the same sorts of stories, and I was actually kind of fascin...more "

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Alicia is currently reading:
A Family Daughter: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Maile Meloy
bookshelves: currently-reading

my rating:

Alicia said: "I am slogging through this thing, trying desperately (okay, well, not that desperately) to like it. It's just that the the whole sex with family members thing really traumatizes me. I will report back when I have actually read all of it, if that ever...more "

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Alicia is currently reading:
Stargirl (Paperback)
by Jerry Spinelli
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September 01

Alicia gave

to:
A Sunday Afternoon Hotdog Meal: A guide to Chicago featuring shrimp from the future, a park shaped like a spot of paint, six-foot tall smelly, sweaty men, ... and cabs that smell like fresh flowers. (Paperback)
by 205 Second Through Sixth Grade Students; All of Whom are Eager to Show You Around

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Alicia said: "Just holding this book makes me happy. Reading it...also makes me happy. I am forever in love with anything and everything that children write. I've had some of these authors as my students, and that just makes me proud. This book is a little hard to...more "

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Alicia gave

to:
Love Walked In (Paperback)
by Marisa de los Santos (Goodreads author!)

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Alicia said: "This is probably not a book I would have chosen on my own, but my mom recommended it to me, and I am at least glad that I read it. I think the writing is fluid and comfortable, although I did feel awkward when that Big Fancy Words flag was waving abo...more "

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July 03

Alicia gave

to:
The Mermaid Chair (Paperback)
by Sue Monk Kidd

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June 21

New comment on susan's review of The Art of Racing in the Rain

Alicia wrote: "They sell this at Starbucks. Is that where you bought it? :) "

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New comment on Alicia's review of Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family

Alicia wrote: "You should read it, I think. I mean, you like funny stuff, right? I guess I like it because I have s...more "

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June 15

Alicia gave

to:
500 Self-Portraits (Hardcover)
by Julian Bell

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Alicia said: "An excellent teaching tool for use with any age! I have a renewed faith in many "popular" artists because of this book, and I think it's simply because I now know them to be more fearless, more honest. Self-depiction is so, so important! I ...more "

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Alicia gave

to:
Carrot Soup (Hardcover)
by John Segal

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Alicia said: "Friendship and vegetables together in the same book? Brilliant. I give it this rating also because it lends itself amazingly well to a brilliant art project that I LOVE doing with my 2 and 3 year-olds. Nothing makes vegetables more enticing than crea...more "

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	susan 89 books, 5 friends Friend details Fate brought us together, Through a friend, Childhood friends, High School, Family, Met randomly, Club or Organization "can you believe we never lived or worked together? No, I can't. I mean, I can, but not. Maybe we should start? At least we had those sky-high aspirations of the two-woman chandelier factory down on the farm. So that was a dream that contained both. But I don't think that counts."
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	Megan 34 books 22 friends
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