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No More Bull!: The M... 05/07 Lesley is currently reading:
No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet (Paperback)
by Howard F. Lyman
bookshelves: 2008, currently-reading, health-and-food
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Daughter of Fortune:... 05/05 Lesley is currently reading:
Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.)
by Isabel Allende
bookshelves: 2008, currently-reading, m-m-books
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Sweetness and Power:... 05/03 Lesley is currently reading:
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
by Sidney W. Mintz
bookshelves: 2008, currently-reading, health-and-food, non-fiction
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May 08
Middlesex Lesley marked as to-read:
Middlesex (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
bookshelves: to-read
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Cassandra at the Wed... Lesley marked as to-read:
Cassandra at the Wedding (Paperback)
by Dorothy Baker
bookshelves: to-read
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Fractured Fairy Tale... Lesley marked as to-read:
Fractured Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by A.J. Jacobs
bookshelves: fractured-fairytales, to-read
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Library Confidential Lesley marked as to-read:
Library Confidential (Paperback)
by Don Borchett
bookshelves: to-read, where-the-books-live
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The Prize Winner of ... Lesley marked as to-read:
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less (Hardcover)
by Terry Ryan
bookshelves: to-read
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He's a Stud, She's a... Lesley marked as to-read:
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (Paperback)
by Jessica Valenti
bookshelves: feministing, to-read
my rating:
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May 07
BABY READ-ALOUD BASI... Lesley added:
BABY READ-ALOUD BASICS: Fun And Interactive Ways to Help Your Little One Discover the World of Words (Paperback)
by Barbara Weston Ramirez
bookshelves: h-and-e-books
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How to Get Your Chil... Lesley added:
How to Get Your Child to Love Reading: For Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike (Paperback)
by Esmé Raji Codell
bookshelves: h-and-e-books
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The Essential Guide ... Lesley marked as to-read:
The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators (Paperback)
by Anita Silvey
bookshelves: info-please, non-fiction, to-read
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The Big Book of Chil... Lesley added:
The Big Book of Children's Reading Lists: 100 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Educators, Librarians, Parents, and Children (Paperback)
by Nancy J. Keane
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Lesley's favorite quotes

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"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
Dorothy Parker

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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
Dorothy L. Sayers

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"The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
Italo Calvino




Lesley's groups (recent posts)

2117 Movies We've Just Watched — 591 members — last activity 4 minutes ago
A chance in quick form to give your recent impressions of a movie you just watched--on the big screen or on dvd. Good or bad; life-changing or just s...more
1059 BOOK-A-HOLICS — 700 members — last activity 1 hour, 7 min ago
WHEN I GET A LITTLE MONEY, I BUY BOOKS; IF ANY IS LEFT I BUY FOOD AND CLOTHES.

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
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853 Constant Reader — 684 members — last activity 1 hour, 23 min ago
An open forum for friendly discussion of books and anything to do with reading, movies and art.
185 What's The Name of That Book??? — 667 members — last activity 21 hours, 34 min ago
Can't remember the title of a book you read a while back? Come post a description on our message board and we can try to help each other out.

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475 Jane Austen — 236 members — last activity 23 hours, 2 min ago
discussing any of Jane Austen's works, recommended biographies and literary analysis
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from Becca
01/24/2008 08:12AM

820833 Thank you for adding me as a friend. Looks like I'll be adding even more books to my "to be read" stacks around this house!















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