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Monday, 14 January 2013

My Christmas Books for #readingonlybookswrittenbywomen

Posted on 03:12 by Unknown

These are the lovely books I got for Christmas:

Rose Tremain's The Colour

Rose Tremain's The Way I Found Her

Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Jennifer Donnelly's A Gathering Light

Carol J. Adams' The Pornography of Meat

Jewly Hight's Right By Her Roots: American Women and Their Songs

Camilla Lackberg's The Hidden Child

Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife

Cecilia Ahern's Thanks for the Memories

Liza Dalby's The Tale of Murasaki

bell hooks' belonging: a culture of place

Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

Hannah Richell's Secret of the Tides

Jane Mendelsohn's I was Amelia Earhart

Jean Kilbourne's Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising

(The benefits of living near 3 brilliant second-hand bookstores)
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