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April 16
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Robyn
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Peony in Love (Hardcover)
by Lisa See
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February 22
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Robyn
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez
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Robyn said:
"Why oh why do I have such a hard time reading books that other people rave about? Maybe I shouldn't have tried reading it during my recovery from my tonsillectomy?
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Robyn
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Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by Sherrie Eldridge
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Robyn
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Bad Dogs Have More Fun: And Other Tails of Animals, Life and Family (Hardcover)
by John Grogan
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Robyn
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Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America (Brandeis Series on Jewish Women)
by Marjorie Agosin
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Robyn said:
"Marjorie Agosin is a Chilean-born woman living in the US. She teaches at Wellesley College. This book is a compilation of interviews that she conducts with other Jewish immigrants from Europe and Latin America between the 1930s and 1970s.
Arra...more
Marjorie Agosin is a Chilean-born woman living in the US. She teaches at Wellesley College. This book is a compilation of interviews that she conducts with other Jewish immigrants from Europe and Latin America between the 1930s and 1970s.
Arranged chronologically, with the older women speaking first, each conversation opens with a short introduction that provides context for each woman's life. These uncertain travelers -- so named to highlight the possibility and difficulty of their journeys -- discuss food, friendship, work, language, writing, anti-semitism, and politics, in familiar language. Angry, affecting, and disturbing, the conversations unfold as they do in life, inviting the reader to share an extended meditation on how writing, speaking, and memory join to restore a personal and collective past. (source: http://www.amazon.com/Uncertai....
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Robyn
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No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel (Hardcover)
by Janice Dickinson
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Robyn said:
"I bought this book because I can’t stop watching Janice Dickinson’s show, “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency,” on the Oxygen Channel. Also, I love stories about beautiful women. I read this book in less than 24-hours.
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I bought this book because I can’t stop watching Janice Dickinson’s show, “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency,” on the Oxygen Channel. Also, I love stories about beautiful women. I read this book in less than 24-hours.
From her deeply troubled her relationship with her parents (her father beat her and her pill-popping Mother and sexually abused her older sister), to her many problematic romantic relationships (she’s been married three times, and, it seems, slept with half the heterosexual men in the fashion and entertainment industries) to her early struggle to succeed as a model and her battles with drugs and alcohol, Dickinson’s life has been packed with drama.
No Lifeguard on Duty charts her journey to the top (during a time when doors were slammed in her face, b/c she was “too exotic” as a brunette when models were blond and blue-eyed), and the problems she encountered both along the way and after she attained success. It’s fairly typical celeb-bio stuff. The thing that makes it interesting is Dickinson’s complete candor. It’s no wonder so many of the people she encounters seem so enchanted with her. She ignored Calvin Klein's comment, "models aren't supposed to think." She has no fear of speaking her mind. Her reflections on the past are littered with profanity, pointed observations about herself and others and even humor.
Her ability to look back on her mistakes with fairly clear eyes lends her memoir a certain depth. While it’s not too deep, it still has many of the features of a typical Hollywood autobiography – name-dropping, detailed depictions of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. But at least you can tell that Dickinson really is trying to examine her life and change it for the better. And that is truly refreshing.
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February 14
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Robyn
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Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Carmit Delman
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Robyn said:
"I liked the idea of this book and reading, "An interesting view of an exotic cross-cultural childhood" on the back of the book made it seem really sexy, but I was disappointed by it. Overall the book was just not as well written as it coul...more
I liked the idea of this book and reading, "An interesting view of an exotic cross-cultural childhood" on the back of the book made it seem really sexy, but I was disappointed by it. Overall the book was just not as well written as it could have been....less
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January 02
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New comment on Robyn's review of
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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January 01
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Robyn
marked as to-read:
Sister of My Heart: A Novel (Paperback)
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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