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Vanessa rated Cohesive Writing: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Norwegian Wood: 4 stars
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young …
Vanessa rated My Uncle Oswald: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Fascination: 3 stars
Fascination by Stephenie Meyer (Twilight, #1)
Bella, dix-sept ans, décide de quitter l'Arizona ensoleillé où elle vivait avec sa mère, pour s'installer chez son père. Elle …
Vanessa rated Neverwhere (London Below, #1): 4 stars
Vanessa rated Teaching To Transgress: 5 stars
Teaching To Transgress by bell hooks
"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that …
Vanessa rated Tempest / the Works of William Shakespeare Illustrated: 5 stars
William Shakespeare: Tempest / the Works of William Shakespeare Illustrated (2021, Independently Published)
Tempest / the Works of William Shakespeare Illustrated by William Shakespeare
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics …
Vanessa rated Been down so long it looks like up to me: 3 stars
Vanessa rated A Farewell to Arms: 4 stars
Vanessa rated A life in letters: 4 stars
A life in letters by M.F.K. Fisher
In these pages, Fisher's letters are made public for the first time. Selected and compiled by her younger sister, her …
Vanessa rated Proust Was a Neuroscientist: 3 stars
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
"Quick book recommendation for you. I finished reading this about a week ago and it's still lingering in my thoughts. …
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her …
Vanessa rated Instructions: 5 stars
Instructions by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess
This advice for travelling through a fairytale landscape might just save you from being eaten by wolves or being lost …