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Vanessa rated The Hobbit: 4 stars
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
Vanessa rated The Age of Innocence: 4 stars
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy …
Vanessa rated Teaching Community: 4 stars
Teaching Community by bell hooks
Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class, and …
Vanessa rated Good faeries: 2 stars
Vanessa rated Brian Froud's World of Faerie: 3 stars
Vanessa rated The Scarlet Letter: 5 stars
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a …
Vanessa rated The Yellow Wallpaper: 3 stars
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1997)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Specially printed limited edition release for the Miskatonic Literary Society.
Vanessa rated The Velveteen Rabbit (Rabbit Ears): 4 stars
Vanessa rated The sound and the fury: 4 stars
William Faulkner: The sound and the fury (1987, Garland, Garland Publishing, Incorporated)
The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (William Faulkner manuscripts ;)
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates …
Vanessa rated Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: 4 stars
Oscar Wilde, NULL: Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2021, Independently Published)
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, NULL
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published …
Vanessa rated An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet, #5): 4 stars
Vanessa rated Culinary intelligence: 2 stars
Culinary intelligence by Peter Kaminsky
"A formerly over-weight food writer tells us how t maximize flavor per calorie so we can keep our waistlines slim …
Vanessa rated Speaker for the dead: 4 stars
Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender (2))
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this …
Vanessa rated Ender's Game: 5 stars
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, #1)
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and …