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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'Matchless: A Christmas Story']]>
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Matchless: A Christmas Story (Hardcover)
byGregory Maguire bookshelves: currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'A Short History of Women: A Novel']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80858189
A Short History of Women: A Novel (Hardcover)
byKate Walbert bookshelves: currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'Sarah's Key']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80235279
to: Sarah's Key (Hardcover)byTatiana de Rosnay
A dramatic story with very little subtlety or art to the writing, but a compelling read nonetheless. A Holocaust story that adds a dash of modern-day domestic drama and is squarely aimed at a middle-aged female readership.
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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'The Namesake']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79692874
to: The Namesake (Paperback)byJhumpa Lahiri
Mom loaned me this book years ago, and I'm finally getting around to it. Great story so far. I keep thinking of Ha Jin's A Free Life, which I loved.
Finished it, and ready to read more by Lahiri. A simple story, really, but made richer by how gracefully it's written, honest and sensitive, wonderful eye for details that unmistakably characterize the decades through which the characters move.
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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79692956
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (Paperback)
byGeorge R. Stewart bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'Espresso Shot']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78490075
to: Espresso Shot (Coffeehouse Mystery, #7)byCleo Coyle
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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'Stitches: A Memoir']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73261743
to: Stitches: A Memoir (Hardcover)byDavid Small
I'm not a graphic novel fan, really. I grew up amidst piles and piles of Archie, Richie Rich, and Peanuts comics - the funnies - but I try reading graphic novels based on fantasy and they're not for me. What I do like are the memoirs: Fun House, American Born Chinese, and now Stitches. A quick and intense read, an amazing work.
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<![CDATA[Aurora recommended the book
Prospect Park West: A Novel to
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/675254
Aurora
recommended the book
Prospect Park West: A Novel
to Sarah
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http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73295416
Nette's review of
Prospect Park West: A Novel byAmy Sohn
Yes. I think a lot of readers are completely missing the point. I'm in the middle of this book and just loving it - precisely because of the snark, irreverence, and deliberate exaggeration of trendy parenthood in a trendy neighborhood. I don't even live in NYC and I can totally appreciate the caricatures - there are versions of these people everywhere you go. Smart, funny, and wicked. Love it.
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<![CDATA[Aurora added 'Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78489916
Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
byRobert A. Aronowitz bookshelves: to-read
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