kick-ass women in nineteenth century novels
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07/04
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The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands (Paperback) by Laura C. Schlessinger bookshelves: currently-reading |
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07/02
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Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant (Hardcover) by Christopher Grey bookshelves: currently-reading |
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06/27
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment (Hardcover) by Steve Harvey bookshelves: currently-reading |
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progress: "Reading this mostly for work; don't think I'm going to like it." — 8 days ago, 02:30PM |
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"I really liked the no-nonsense approach to this book. Throughout the book, I kept thinking of other names she could've titled this book. Here are a few: *Stop being selfish you lousy wench *You are not the center of the univer...more " | |||
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New comment on Lizzi's progress update: "On page 300 of Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics). Best book in the world."
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New comment on Jordan's progress update: "On page 51 of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Childermass, you're devilish."
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Marie made a comment on Marie's review of
Men Were Deceivers Ever (Severn House Regency)
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New comment on Jordan's progress update: "On page 36 of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"
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New comment on Marie's progress update: "On page 25 of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What.... Reading this mostly for work; don't think I'm going to like it."
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Marie is on page 25 of 232 of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
"Reading this mostly for work; don't think I'm going to like it."
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment (Hardcover) by Steve Harvey bookshelves: currently-reading |
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progress: "Reading this mostly for work; don't think I'm going to like it." — 8 days ago, 02:30PM |
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"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."
— Alexander McCall Smith
— Alexander McCall Smith
"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."
— Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey)
— Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey)
"Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat." "
— Georgette Heyer (Behold, Here's Poison)
— Georgette Heyer (Behold, Here's Poison)
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"Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!"
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
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