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- Mar 5, 2007
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- JenniferD.
- About My Library
I hope to engage with interesting people who share similar tastes in books.
My rating system:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ = excellent
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ = very good
⭐️⭐️⭐️ = fine
⭐️⭐️ = so-so
⭐️ = disliked- About Me
- Ragamuffin. Silly for dogs!
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Ally | Settler| INFJ | She/Her | Bookish | Empathy | Disabled
Interested in: Literary Fiction, Classic Fiction, and Nonfiction. - Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- http://literallife.wordpress.com/
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- The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic by Wade DavisThe Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Classics) by Michael SimsThe Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband by David FinchNW by Zadie SmithThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadimanpure-gt-gt-gt-gt-a-beautiful-signed-uk-1st-1st-hardback-winner-of-the-costa-2011-book-of-the-year-award-lt-lt-lt-lt by andrew-millerTaft by Ann PatchettPrimates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Primates, 1) by Jim OttavianiThe Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution: A Cookbook by Alice WatersHothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris KachkaThe Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven JohnsonLady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History by Kenneth McGooganLittle Ship of Fools: Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic by Charles WilkinsEyrie by Winton TimThe Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy WelchVelvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe HarvardTragedy in the Commons: Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy by Alison LoatThe Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe: A novel by Romain PuertolasThe Strangler Vine: The Blake and Avery Mystery Series (Book 1) (The Blake and Avery Mystery Series, 1) by M. J. CarterRemarkable Creatures: Author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, the 5 million copy bestseller by Tracy ChevalierComplaints & Disorders [Complaints and Disorders]: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Contemporary Classics) by Barbara EhrenreichWitches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics) by Barbara EhrenreichMarie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family (MacSci) by Shelley EmlingBefore Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution by Robert BakerH is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner by Helen MacdonaldDr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe AptowiczIn the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Random House Large Print) by Hampton SidesThe Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael SimsThe Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman DoidgeFauna by Alissa YorkStrangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquharFierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow PriorThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff HobbsThe Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (Seven Dreams: Book of North Americasn Landscapes) by William T. VollmannThe Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It (P.S.) by Tilar J MazzeoThe Mapmaker's War: Keeper of Tales Trilogy: Book One (The Keeper of Tales Trilogy) by Ronlyn DomingueEmma by Jane AustenWriting Tools (10th Anniversary Edition): 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter ClarkCather, Willa [ My Antonia (Virago Modern Classics) [ MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) BY Cather, Willa ( Author ) Sep-01-2006[ MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) [ MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) BY CATHER, WILLA ( AUTHOR ) SEP-01 by Willa CatherCRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush by Cathy AlterRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte GordonI'm Just a Person: From the Celebrated Comedian Known for Her Comedy Specials “Boyish Girl Interrupted” and “Happy to Be Here,” and for Her ... The Morning Show, and One Mississippi. by Tig NotaroPale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by Vladimir NabokovThe Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Mikhail BulgakovCane by Jean ToomerFarthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North (Modern Library Exploration) by Fridjtof NansenThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) by Douglas AdamsThe Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava SobelMrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad RiccaMercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them by Gina KolataEmpire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean JobbFrozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell ZuckoffThe Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor HansonSmile by Roddy DoyleThe Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian by W. Kamau BellThe Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home by Denise KiernanThe Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason FagoneThe Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (1) (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club) by Theodora Goss
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