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Elizabeth is currently reading
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05/05
Elizabeth
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West with the Night (Paperback) by Beryl Markham bookshelves: currently-reading |
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03/25
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The Charterhouse of Parma (Oxford World's Classics) by Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Elizabeth said:
"Slogging through this one. Only about six chapters in and I'm still waiting for the plot to pick up speed. The narrator has a really strong voice in this, also there lots of funny comparisons between Frenchmen and Italians.
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12/07
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Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward W. Said bookshelves: currently-reading, middleeast, nonfiction |
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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Hardcover) by Tom Lutz (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: to-read |
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L'Oeuvre au Noir (Mass Market Paperback) by Marguerite Yourcenar bookshelves: to-read |
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Elizabeth said:
"Kilian Hennessey said that this book was his inspiration for his first line of perfumes...
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback) by Lynne Truss bookshelves: to-read |
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War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy bookshelves: to-read |
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The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories (Paperback) by Leo Tolstoy bookshelves: fiction, russiabooks |
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Elizabeth
read and liked
Ian's
review of West with the Night:
"This letter from Ernest Hemingway to Maxwell Perkins in 1942 sums up the book better than I ever could: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Afric" ...read more » | |||||||||||
Elizabeth's favorite quotes
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
— Groucho Marx
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan (Penguin Popular Classics))
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan (Penguin Popular Classics))
"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
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