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	Gertrude gave to: Wuthering Heights (Paperback) by Emily Brontë	my rating:
	Gertrude said: "Currently re-reading. First read it at 17 and reread it every decade or so. It's my acid test for a great book: it offers new truths and fresh wisdom every time you read it. A great book will speak as passionately to you at sixty as at twenty, but al...more " add a comment
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	Gertrude gave to: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein bookshelves: non-fiction	my rating:
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	Gertrude gave to: Why Did I Ever (Paperback) by Mary Robison	my rating:
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June 14
	Gertrude gave to: Absolute Friends (Paperback) by John le Carré	my rating:
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June 07
	Gertrude gave to: The Shorter Pepys (Hardcover) by Robert Latham	my rating:
	read in June, 2008 Gertrude said: "I bought this at a charity shop for 2 pounds, with the intention of keeping it by my bed and dipping in to it from time to time. So much for good intentions. Many late nights later, I can recommend that this "shorter" edition of the massive...more " add a comment

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"...a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction... "
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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"I can't think about that today....I'll think about that tomorrow. "
— Scarlett O'Hara

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"Every word you pick up is loaded."
— Kit Reed, Story First

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from Daniel

05/14/2008 01:08PM

It's time to start on that novel, Gertrude.

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