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Tipping the Velvet
Tipping the Velvet
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Start date
September 1, 2012
Finish date
September 30, 2012
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Louise
Sep 18, 2014 rated it liked it
I'd give it an extra half star if that were an option! I feel like 3 is too few but 4 is too many. Regardless, I liked this book even though the language and the setting are really not my cup of tea. It took me a long time to get into it and several times I considered giving up. And okay, I'll confess here that the first sex scene roped me back in! I particularly found that the second half of the book flew by. There was little economy of words and I do maintain that long, long passages were unne ...more
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