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1Q84
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TransAtlantic
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by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)
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"Very good so far." May 05, 2013 03:57pm

 
The Golem and the...
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"Okay, so far. Not much is happening and there has been a lot of back story." May 05, 2013 03:56pm

 

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TransAtlantic
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The Black Count by Tom Reiss
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Half World by Hiromi Goto
Half World (Half World, #1)
by Hiromi Goto
read in April, 2013
After signing up for the Worlds Without Ends Women of Genre Fiction year long reading challenge, I had to choose who I wanted to read and what I wanted to read by them. Conveniently, the website had a list of authors and their books. I tried to choos...more
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Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet
Witty, if you can follow his anecdotes, instructional in some ways, but mostly just amusing for the person who truly suffers the affliction of bibliomania. Accordingly, the best part is the eight pages of bibliography at the end.
Veronica rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Sever by Lauren DeStefano
Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3)
by Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
Sever, the conclusion to Lauren DeStefano’s Chemical Garden trilogy simmers slowly and then fizzles out to a completely unsatisfying ending to what could have been a much more interesting “dystopian” trilogy. I use dystopian in quotes here, because i...more
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Bernard M. Baruch
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch

Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Virginia Woolf
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
Virginia Woolf

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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