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03/02
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback) by Azar Nafisi bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in January, 2006
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"About an intelligent, very personal women's book club in Iran; unfortunately I haven't read Lolita yet so I put the book on hold, but there are chapters on Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald along with Nabakov and other authors.
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03/02
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback) by Simon Winchester bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in January, 2008
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"Entertaining book about dark side of Victorian England and philology.
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02/26
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Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback) by George Orwell bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Kite Runner (Paperback) by Khaled Hosseini |
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read in January, 2007
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"This story keeps you reading, but there are some extremely unlikely coincidences and unnecessarily disturbing incidents that made it hard to love. The novel ultimately does have a valuable message, though.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback) by Azar Nafisi bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in January, 2006
Denise said:
"About an intelligent, very personal women's book club in Iran; unfortunately I haven't read Lolita yet so I put the book on hold, but there are chapters on Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald along with Nabakov and other authors.
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback) by Simon Winchester bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in January, 2008
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"Entertaining book about dark side of Victorian England and philology.
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Iron John: A Book About Men (Paperback) by Robert Bly |
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read in January, 2004
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"Deep and poetically written, about masculinity in mythology and fairy tales.
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The Brothers K (Paperback) by David James Duncan |
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My Name Is Asher Lev (Paperback) by Chaim Potok |
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read in January, 2006
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"About the complex relationship of art and religion, and a compelling look inside an artist's creative process.
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The Nanny Diaries (Paperback) by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus |
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Paperback) by Anonymous, Seamus Heaney |
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read in January, 2008
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"A readable, whimsical translation of Beowulf with a bit of an Irish political slant
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Brideshead Revisited (Paperback) by Evelyn Waugh |
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read in January, 2007
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"An intense, unexpected, beautiful, funny story about spirituality in the British upper class.
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