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07/25
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Ghislaine said:
"Elizabeth Marshall Thomas makes anthropological observations deeply absorbing and relevant. I can't wait to read *Reindeer Moon* to my kids.
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07/25
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The Red and the Black (Signet Classics) by Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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07/25
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Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in May, 2008
Ghislaine said:
"What a revelation! Wonderful -- what a great moment at the birth of a subtle psychological narrative. Actually, I had to forgive some overdramatization of certain moments in the interior life of poor Emma, but it's moving all the same.
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Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in May, 2008
Ghislaine said:
"What a revelation! Wonderful -- what a great moment at the birth of a subtle psychological narrative. Actually, I had to forgive some overdramatization of certain moments in the interior life of poor Emma, but it's moving all the same.
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Ghislaine
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Ghislaine said:
"Elizabeth Marshall Thomas makes anthropological observations deeply absorbing and relevant. I can't wait to read *Reindeer Moon* to my kids.
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Ghislaine
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The Red and the Black (Signet Classics) by Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Paperback) by Wallace Stevens bookshelves: to-read |
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Selected Poems (Mass Market Paperback) by Robinson Jeffers bookshelves: to-read |
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Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics) by Sherwood Anderson bookshelves: read-every-10-years |
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Paperback) by Ford Madox Ford bookshelves: keep-putting-off |
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Manhattan Transfer: A Novel (Paperback) by John Dos Passos bookshelves: keep-putting-off |
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Ghislaine said:
"I confuse Dos Passos with Ford Maddox Ford, and both of their enormous books have been on my shelf for well over 10 years, unread.
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| March 19 | ||
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback) by J.D. Salinger bookshelves: missed-the-age-to-enjoy-this |
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Ghislaine said:
"Someone passed me a copy to read in college but I couldn't get into it. The other text that this person assigned at the time was Animal Liberation. I didn't make headway with either.
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| March 11 | ||
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The Sot-weed Factor (Paperback) by John Barth bookshelves: plan-to-reread |
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read in January, 1987
Ghislaine said:
"I need to go back to the scene of Smith downing that final boiled bat... And then there's the quest for the perfect bum-swipe.
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