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Kelly marked as abandoned: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	My rating:
Feb 09, 2012 12:50pm
Kelly marked as to-read: The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas	My rating:
Feb 08, 2012 12:26am
Kelly liked Kemper's review of Ready Player One: " Adventures in Time Mowing After my laptop fused to my lawn mower due to a freak lightning strike, I discovered that I could use it to travel through time. “Wow, where’d you come from?” “I’m from 2011. Got a time mowe... " Read more of this review »
Feb 03, 2012 10:51pm · see review
Kelly gave to: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author) read in February, 2012	My rating:
Feb 03, 2012 10:44pm
Kelly gave to: The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2012	My rating:
I'd been meaning to read this book all last year, especially after seeing it everywhere when I visited the US in July and hearing about the movie. It wasn't until some friends from a coffee group (that's a group of mothers with young children who mee...more
Jan 12, 2012 09:56am · see review
Kelly liked Lucy's review of The Fry Chronicles: " At first I thought I was going to adore this biography. The opening chapter started with a caveat that is extremely close to my heart "in every particular I fail Strunk's Elements of Style or any other manual of 'good writing'. If a thing can be... " Read more of this review »
Jan 12, 2012 09:53am · see review
Kelly is on page 10 of 307 of Purple Hibiscus: I know the book club discussion is underway. I'm not getting the time I expected to get through this book. I'll keep going for now but I'll need to move on to The Help soon for the coffee group discussion in early Feb. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie progress:	My rating:
Dec 30, 2011 01:59am · like · see status
Kelly gave to: How to Have a Happy Toddler: Responding to Your Child's Emotional Needs from 0 - 4 by Carol Valinejad read in December, 2011	My rating:
Dec 30, 2011 01:50am
Kelly made a comment on her review of Ready Player One "Grumpator wrote: "I'll be interested to hear what you think about this one." It's gotten a strong recommendation from some sci-fi-loving friends, so I ...more"
Dec 22, 2011 02:47pm · see review
Kelly marked as to-read: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson	My rating:
Dec 20, 2011 02:41pm

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“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

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