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Woman Lost in the Kingdom of the Mind

My life has changed a lot recently. LUCKILY that change involves reading lots of enjoyable books! I've always read like a maniac but now I don't have to read academic flavored books unless I feel the need or want to. Instead, I can stimulate my thinking through worlds of fiction. :) I like this change.

Columbia, MO, USA
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Rabbit Is Rich

by John Updike

Rated 5 stars

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Sophies Choice

by William Styron

Rated 5 stars

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

Rated 5 stars

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Rated 5 stars

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Everything That Rises Must Converge

by Flannery O'Connor

Rated 4 stars

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Rated 3 stars

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Hurston

Rated 4 stars

The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior

Rated 5 stars

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Invisible Man: A Novel

by Ralph Ellison

Rated 4 stars

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Rated 5 stars

Ariel

by Sylvia Plath

Rated 5 stars

Archangel (Samaria Trilogy, Book 1)

by Sharon Shinn

Rated 5 stars

Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture

by Jaroslav Pelikan

Rated 3 stars

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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Watership Down

by Richard Adams

Rated 5 stars

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Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader: A Documentary Reader

Rated 5 stars

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Les Miserables (Piano Solos Olo Series)

Rated 5 stars

Veronika Decides to Die

by Paulo Coelho

Rated 4 stars

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

Rated 5 stars

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Rated 2 stars

The Feminine Mystique

by Betty Friedan

Rated 5 stars

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Rated 4 stars

Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920

by Beryl Satter

Rated 4 stars

The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

by Alex Owen

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Off with Her Head!: The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture

by Wendy Doniger

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Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The

by Jonathan Kozol

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Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap

by Peggy Orenstein

Rated 4 stars

The Black Christ (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion)

by Kelly Brown Douglas

Rated 4 stars

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

Rated 4 stars

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon

by Stephen R. Prothero

Rated 3 stars

The Twenty-One Balloons

by William Pène du Bois

Rated 5 stars

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

Rated 2 stars

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Series Q)

by Esther Newton

Rated 5 stars

Island of the Blue Dolphins

by Scott O'Dell

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Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)

by Rennie B. Schoepflin

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Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, And Self-transformation in Victorian Spiritualism (Suny Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)

by Marlene Tromp

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The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures

by Michael D. Coogan

Rated 4 stars

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

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Angelica: A Novel of Samaria

by Sharon Shinn

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte, Emma Fielding

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Jean Louise says

Books on your "plan to read" list that are on my "owned" list: "A Tale of Two Cities", "East of Eden", "I am Charlotte Simmons", and "Me Talk Pretty One Day" (although I technically borrowed that one from someone else. Books I have that I would strongly recommend: "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Freakanomics" by Steven Levitt, "A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition" by George Lipsitz, "Disgrace" by J. M. Coatzee, "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Trap" by Tabitha King, "1984" by George Orwell, "Freedomland" by Richard Price, "Samaritan" by Richard Price, all the Harry Potter books, and "Eats Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss. Please don't hesitate to borrow any of these whenever you feel like reading one of them.

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Jean Louise says

That's OK. You'll probably beat me. I get distracted easily.

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Jean Louise says

Come on, now. I'm nearly halfway into "What's The Matter With Kansas?"

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Jean Louise says

Ha-ha! I'm working on it. :)

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Jean Louise says

I have to finish reading The Grapes of Wrath.

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Jean Louise says

Yes, ma'am. I am very excited to be here.

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Vee says

Nice face. :)

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