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06/30
francesca
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Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution (Hardcover) by Leonard Shlain bookshelves: currently-reading |
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06/30
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Vintage) by Robert A. Caro bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Hardcover) by Kate Wilhelm |
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover) by Margaret Atwood |
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read in January, 1999
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"It's been a zillion years since I read this, but I remember it being creeeepy. And hauntingly good.
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Oryx and Crake (Mass Market Paperback) by Margaret Atwood |
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On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac |
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover) by Jane Jacobs |
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francesca said:
"All planners and architects should be required to read this before college and then once more before they are allowed to practice.
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Unnatural Disasters (Worldwatch Paper 158) by Janet N. Abramovitz, Linda Starke |
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read in November, 2007
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"Of course I will the only person on earth to write a review for a reference book... but screw it, Abramovitz is a great resource for any future disaster professionals.
Yawn. Back to your regularly scheduled programming. " |
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The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Paperback) by Harlan Ellison |
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read in July, 2007
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"Goddammit, I love Ellison. This is decidedly not his best collection, but it contains "A boy and his dog" and one of the best forwards of any book I've ever read.
So there. " |
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Paperback) by Arthur Golden |
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read in January, 2002
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"Meh, good enough, but pretty fluffy and a not-challenging read.
Pretty much what you would expect. " |
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Blindness (Paperback) by José Saramago |
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Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture (Oxford Paperbacks) by Bram Dijkstra |
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recommended for: artist, writers, dreamers
read in January, 2000
francesca said:
"A fabulous reference of artistic allusions to mythology and folklore, with a wealth of images from both renowned and obscure works.
Delicious. " |
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