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Jocelyn (The Reading World)

I love to read and can get very attached to my opinions, but recently I've been learning not to completely lose my head when people disagree with me, so feel safe to argue with me whenever you wish ;) 

 

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Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations) - Michael J. Sullivan
Ozma of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan

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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama
Shadows on Snow: A Flipped Fairy Tale (Flipped Fairy Tales) - Starla Huchton, Jennifer Melzer
Beloved - Toni Morrison
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama Shadows on Snow: A Flipped Fairy Tale (Flipped Fairy Tales) - Starla Huchton, Jennifer Melzer Beloved - Toni Morrison The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 1945 - Dennis D. Wainstock Paladin - Sally Slater
reviewed: Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
Second of two in a series, following The Origins of Political Order. This covers history from the Industrial and French Revol...
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama
June 2016
15
reviewed: Dust in the Desert by Starla Huchton
BL doesn't have a page for this book, but here is the GR page. And the cover: Read up to 33%, followed by heavy sk...
June 2016
09
reviewed: Shadows on Snow by Starla Huchton
Gender flipped Snow White:Evil stepmother queen-->evil stepfather king Beautiful princess with black hair/pale skin-->handso...
Shadows on Snow: A Flipped Fairy Tale (Flipped Fairy Tales) - Starla Huchton, Jennifer Melzer
June 2016
04
reviewed: Beloved by Toni Morrison
I think I appreciate this a lot more than I love it. Even then, by the time I was 100 or 200 pages in, I wished I'd paid more...
Beloved - Toni Morrison
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Merle - Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim
I thought this would be a fun light read, but it turned out to be a good example of a book that has not stood the test of tim...
text: Paused
This book, the first of an ongoing series spanning almost the entire recorded history of China, goes over four chronological ...
The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC - Michael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy
May 2016
31
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Merle - Two Dollars a Day by Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer
This is an excellent book about deep poverty in modern America. It covers a lot of big issues – employment, housing, public b...
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Merle - Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Evictions in the U.S. used to be rare events, drawing crowds of protesters. But these days, for low-income renters, evictions...
May 2016
30
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Merle - The Cross by Sigrid Undset
The final volume of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy is perhaps the best of the three. Judging by the titles and cover image...
May 2016
29
reviewed: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 1945 by Dennis Wainstock
Another short, condensed synthesis of the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Wainstock delves into a lot of ...
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 1945 - Dennis D. Wainstock
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