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Tanith

Just another voracious reader - I am currently using shelfari as a procrastination tool to avoid a pile of marking of my students' work. I love reading most literary fiction, classic and contemporary. My literary obsessions are: Flannery O'Connor, Carson Mccullers and southern gothic in general, Woolf and the Bloomsbury set and the beats -... more »

Melbourne, Australia

member since February 26, 2009

Measuring the World

by Daniel Kehlmann

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