MarianV's BookShelf: 91 books, 76 viewable entries [view entries] [view profile]
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Possessionby...A.S. Byatt rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...academics novel poetry romance victorian_england entry...'A romance in the grand tradition, Possession features not 1 but 2 pairs of lovers. All are poets, in love with poetry as well as each other & if ...' view |
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Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)by...John Updike rating...4 shelf...have readtags...children divorce everyman family_life marriage middleamerica viewable entries...none |
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Raintree Countyby...Jr. Ross Lockridge rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...pioneers entry...'This is such a terrific read, one of my all-time favorites. The movie made from it which starred Elizabeth Taylor is also great. But the book is even ...' view |
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Range of Motion: A Novelby...Elizabeth Berg rating...5 shelf...have readtags...accidents head injuries marriage entry...'A happily married woman finds her life torn apart when her husband, walking down an icy street, is hit on the head by a chunk of ice fallen from a ...' view |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby...Azar Nafisi rating...5 shelf...have readtags...east iran middle nabokov reading_groups_women viewable entries...none |
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Resistanceby...Anita Shreve rating...4 shelf...have readtags...fiction france romance ww2 entry...'The story of American pilots shot down over German occupied territory who are rescued by pretty French girls with whom they fall in love has been told more than once. ...' view |
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River, Cross My Heartby...Breena Clarke rating...4 shelf...have readtags...1920s coming_of_age family_life novel washingtondc viewable entries...none |
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Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colonyby...Lee G. Miller rating...4 shelf...have readtags...1600s american_history explorersdiscoverers raleigh roakoke_island_virginia sir walter entry...'Roanoke Island is the colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh & a group of investors in the New World inthe early 1600's. It is famous for being lost. ...' view |
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Saint Maybeby...Anne Tyler rating...5 shelf...have readtags...accidents family life novel entry...'The book starts off with a series of accidents that leave 3 children orphaned. The brother of the children's dead step-father takes responsibility for what happened &, with the ...' view |
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Scarlet Featherby...Maeve Binchy rating...4 shelf...have readtags...caterers fiction ireland relationships entry...'A year in the life of 2 friends (male & female) who start a catering business in modern Dublin. Romantic entaglements add to the problems of launching a new ...' view |
