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JeffreyKeeten
JeffreyKeeten rated it 9 years ago
”The conclusion I reached came down to this: none of my books, neither the new novel nor any I had written before, was very good. Certainly, none possessed the literary merit that critical opinion ascribed to them. Not even my second novel, the one that won all the prizes and was said to confirm my ...
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Is there such a thing as a good lie? Whenever this question comes up, I imagine that most people can agree that white lies are fine. Without them, we’d probably be perpetually annoyed with one another. But when the lies get bigger, it becomes harder and harder to say if a lie is justified—a “good” l...
Kathryn Lively, Reader
Kathryn Lively, Reader rated it 10 years ago
While browsing NetGalley, I saw Cindy Williams's upcoming memoir available and the email acceptance to read it thrilled me. I read Penny Marshall's My Mother Was Nuts a few years ago, and hoped to read another side of the story. Shirley is much shorter in length, and of course covers other highlight...
Doubleday Publishing
Doubleday Publishing rated it 11 years ago
Meg Wolitzer of The New York Times Book Review said: "[E]ngrossing ... Begley gives us a chance to see into two different, often obscured worlds. One is the most private recesses of another couple’s marriage. The other is high-WASP society — though most people don’t usually even know where that part...
JeffreyKeeten
JeffreyKeeten rated it 12 years ago
”She wore the smallest of bikinis. Strings around her waist and between her legs that held in place a triangle of red cloth. Two smaller triangles of the same cloth attached to strings covered her nipples. Unbroken, luxurious tan; a salacious invitation to dream of the hours she spent lying in the s...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 12 years ago
1/28/13 SA
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 12 years ago
1/28/13 SA
Pustu aprende a leer
Pustu aprende a leer rated it 12 years ago
Iba a tener una sola estrella, pero al final me engancho y logro colarse con 3. Un libro que no recomiendo, pero que tan poco es tan malo como yo pensaba al principio. No tiene nada que ver con la película (no he visto la película pero el trailer es completamente diferente). Solo si no tienen nada q...
LadyRings
LadyRings rated it 12 years ago
Se me hizo interminable, con menos de 300 páginas. Esa nunca es buena señal.Hubo algunos momentos que sí me gustaron, pero no lo volvería a leer.
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it 12 years ago
Most of the story is set in Harvard, but it’s less about college life than it is about the search of identity and life-long friendship. Early in the 1950s the three protagonists first meet when they move into the same suite of the college dormitory. Sam Standish – the narrator – is the son of an old...
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