false 33 105 78 true 5675041 read 6 true 1510893 currently-reading 21 true 1510892 to-read <![CDATA[Bethany added 'Hobbes and Republican Liberty']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77177271 Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Paperback) by Quentin Skinner
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]]> <![CDATA[Bethany added 'Sylvia']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77177496 Sylvia (Hardcover) by Bryce Courtenay
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]]> <![CDATA[Bethany added 'Berlin Cabaret']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77177311 Berlin Cabaret (Studies in Cultural History) by Peter Jelavich
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]]> <![CDATA[Bethany added 'The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77177286 The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (Penguin History of Europe) by Tim Blanning
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]]> <![CDATA[Bethany added 'Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77177244 Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (Paperback) by Vanessa R. Schwartz
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]]> <![CDATA[Bethany added 'The Prince de Ligne: His Memoirs, Letters, and Miscellaneous Papers']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76887684 to: The Prince de Ligne: His Memoirs, Letters, and Miscellaneous Papers (Paperback) by Charles Joseph Ligne
This guy should be on the New York Times bestseller list. He's a far better writer than most novelists, even in translation. Frankly, I don't know why he's not mentioned by the NYT. (The amazingness of his writing has led me to forgive him for his faked memoir; subsequent research has shown that his contemporaries would have known it was a fake. So now I hate modern scholars for leading me astray.) ]]> <![CDATA[Bethany added 'A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 vol. PB Set: From Earliest Times to 1807']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76887562 to: A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 vol. PB Set: From Earliest Times to 1807 (Paperback) by A. R. Disney
When Disney says "from earliest times," he means it. Once upon a time, there lived early hominids... ]]> <![CDATA[Bethany added 'Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76887509 to: Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918 (Paperback) by Ellen Ross
Ross does an amazing job of weaving her narrative around interviews, court cases, archives, and song lyrics. ]]>