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	From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie: The Correspondence Between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995 by Gillian Dooley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Graham Nerlich (Revision) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Wave by Gillian Dooley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Danielle Clode (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Gillian Dooley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nora Hämäläinen (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative, Student Edition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courage and Truthfulness: Ethical Strategies and the Creative Process in the Novels of Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trim, the Cartographer's Cat: The Ship's Cat Who Helped Flinders Map Australia by Matthew Flinders, Gillian Dooley (Goodreads Author), Philippa Sandall 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Private Journal from 17 December 1803 at Isle of France to 10 July 1814 at London by Matthew Flinders, Anthony J. Brown (Editor), Gillian Dooley (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Gillian Dooley and 57 other people liked Manny's review of Antigone: "[Original review, Nov 2008] Read this play any time you feel you're being talked into something which sounds plausible, but which you know in your heart just stinks. It was written to encourage French people not to collaborate with the Nazis during th" Read more of this review »
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Gillian Dooley and 201 other people liked Manny's review of Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control: "Let's start with the most important thing: if you have any interest in finding out where technology is heading, please read this book. I particularly recommend that people who know something about moral philosophy do so. You may dislike Human Compati" Read more of this review »
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Gillian Dooley rated a book really liked it Iris Murdoch by Deborah Johnson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I used this book extensively in my PhD thesis in the mid-1990s, but have come back to it for a current project and found it very well worth revisiting. Johnson is very good at drilling down into not only what Murdoch is saying but how she is saying it ...more
Jan 12, 2020 05:41PM · like · see review
Gillian Dooley and 37 other people liked Manny's review of Hur gick det sen? : boken om Mymlan, Mumintrollet och lilla My (LARA edition): "Most Swedish people know this brilliant nonsense poem, which in my humble opinion is as good as anything in Lewis Carroll. But it's so hard to convey the attraction of poetry to people who don't know the language. When you translate it, Tove Jansson'" Read more of this review »
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Gillian Dooley made a comment on Manny’s review of The First Wave " Thanks Manny! Yes, the whole point of footnotes is to get that stuff out of the way ... "
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Gillian Dooley rated a book it was amazing Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More by Stephen Hough	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Short thoughts on everything from stage fright to the existence of a deity from this consummate writer-musician - his phrasing is as exquisite in words as in music.
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