Woman in the Movie Star Dress, the
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May 8 2015
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9780692367445
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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
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Feb 8 2015
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9780812994995
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West of the Jordan
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Jan 29 2015
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978-080708359-8
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Young Elites, the
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Jan 16 2015
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9780698171725
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions
I'm interested in the topic and would probably read a full-length work on most of the authors' lives in extreme religions, but the short essay doesn't work. The cover is pretty, and a lot of the writing is good. And there are some good quotes. I like how Naomi J. Williams characterizes her parents' disgust with "church-hoppers," as "ecclesiastically promiscuous."
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Jan 1 2015
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978-158005-442-3
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Teatime for the Firefly
The publisher is Harlequin MIRA, but it didn't occur to me when I originally read a review of this book that it was a romance. I'm still not sure if that was the intent, because, finding the protagonist and her love interest annoying, I put the book down 200 or so pages in. The MIRA imprint is meant to encompass literary and genres aside from romance, for women.
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Dec 23 2013
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978-0-7783-1547-6
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My Life as a Silent Movie
A three-years-orphaned college professor loses her husband and daughter in a car accident, finds out she was adopted and goes off to find her roots. I don't want to give anything away, but I should warn you, everything in this novel takes forever. And if you're sensitive to misspellings and typos, stop being petty, but in case you can't, brace yourself. (What's up with the lax proofreading Indiana University Press?)
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Nov 18 2013
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978-0-253-01024-7
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Sisters, the
I made it well past the hundred page mark, thinking the book would eventually grow on me. The writing and story aren't bad; I just didn't care for the sisters, especially the younger one of the first generation.
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Jan 1 2013
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978-0-312-54270-2
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Something to Declare
Although I love Alvarez's novels, I found her book of essays to be a little meh. In fact, I stopped just before the halfway point. It might be zines' fault. I've read a lot of similar themed essays (about feeling half in one world and half in another, due to immigrant status, mixed race identity or the loss of one's native language) in dozens (hundreds?) of zines.
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Dec 27 2012
isn:
0-452-28067-2