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August 11
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Caroline
is currently reading:
All the President's Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
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Caroline
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Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Caroline said:
"This book was so good that it made me want to go back and change all the other books I'd rated "5" to "4."
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Caroline
gave
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The Appeal (Hardcover)
by John Grisham
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read in July, 2008
Caroline said:
"Good plot, lousy book. I should have waited for the movie.
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July 15
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Caroline
gave
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Then We Came to the End (Hardcover)
by Joshua Ferris
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Caroline said:
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Freakily accurate depiction of the characters that I now realize must be common to many advertisi...more
The reviews would lead you to believe that this book is screamingly funny. It's not, so don't let that skew your expectations and ruin it for you.
Freakily accurate depiction of the characters that I now realize must be common to many advertising agencies. Ferris may as well have been describing my old colleagues--I found myself mentally nominating "most likely to return in a clown costume with a firearm" candidates (with separate categories for "real firearm" and "fake firearm") and remembering former co-workers/fellow sufferers I hadn't thought of in a long time.
Good stuff.
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Caroline
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by Junot Díaz
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read in June, 2008
Caroline said:
"If I knew more Spanish, I think I would have absolutely loved this book--I found many of the passages written entirely in English to be almost lyrical (even though the images they described were often shockingly crude).
It was so heavy on Spanis...more
If I knew more Spanish, I think I would have absolutely loved this book--I found many of the passages written entirely in English to be almost lyrical (even though the images they described were often shockingly crude).
It was so heavy on Spanish that I finally had to get a Spanish/English dictionary, but so much of the Spanish was slang, even the dictionary didn't help so much. Hooray for the Internet.
I'm enjoying it much more on my second read......less
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June 26
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Caroline
took the never-ending book quiz.
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May 17
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Caroline
gave
to:
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together (Hardcover)
by Ron Hall
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read in May, 2008
Caroline said:
"My MARTA bus driver recommended it, and every day, he asks me why I don't have it with me. Fine, fine--I'll read it already...
Clearly, I'm going soft in my old age. Though I found the writing style disingenuous (the quasi-first-person narrative...more
My MARTA bus driver recommended it, and every day, he asks me why I don't have it with me. Fine, fine--I'll read it already...
Clearly, I'm going soft in my old age. Though I found the writing style disingenuous (the quasi-first-person narratives SCREAMED "ghost writer") and the underlying premise painfully naive and superficially told ("Invite a drug-addicted homeless person into your life! It will work out great! Really! Couldn't be better. No problems at all!"), I also found it to be a sweet, touching story. There. I said it. ...less
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May 25
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Caroline
gave
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White Teeth (Paperback)
by Zadie Smith
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read in May, 2008
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May 17
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Caroline
gave
to:
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini
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April 23
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Caroline
gave
to:
Memoirs of a Geisha (Hardcover)
by Arthur Golden
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