Vanessa rated The Collector (Back Bay Books): 3 stars
The Collector (Back Bay Books) by John Fowles
Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping …
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Vanessa rated Difficult Loves: 3 stars
Vanessa rated The Story of a Marriage: 4 stars
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
A Today Show Summer Reads Pick
A Washington Post Book of the Year
"We think we know the ones we …
Vanessa rated Dance Dance Dance: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: 3 stars
Vanessa rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Razor's Edge: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Sister Bernadette's barking dog: 3 stars
Sister Bernadette's barking dog by Kitty Burns Florey
Once wildly popular and used by teachers across America to teach grammar, sentence diagramming is now a lost art to …
Vanessa rated The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1): 4 stars
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Stephen Colbourn, Pearl S. Buck, Nick Bertozzi, and 3 others
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung …
Vanessa rated Wives and Daughters: 3 stars
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in …
Vanessa rated To Kill a Mockingbird: 5 stars
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its oritinal publication …
Vanessa rated Treasure island: 3 stars
Treasure island by Robert Louis Stevenson (A Scribner storybook classic)
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her …
Vanessa rated Midnight's Children: 4 stars
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence …
Vanessa rated The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: 3 stars
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up …