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The Crime of Sheila McGough
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newbie defense attorneys; con art connoisseurs
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| I didn't find the subject matter or main character particularly engaging, but Janet Malcolm could make a trip to the tag agency interesting to me. This is the story of defense attorney Sheila McGough, who in the 1980s gets so caught up in rabid ...more | |
"I dislike Scarry's style, I dislike the 50s gender roles, and I am disturbed beyond words to see a pig working as a butcher.
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Emma has real doubts about that title. I fought for Richard Scarry, but I'm afraid the 5 year old girl might be right. Scarry's cartoony fantasy land populated with eyelid-less, anthropomorphic..." Read more of this review » |
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"George Costanza excepted, I know less about women than anyone in the world, but I’d imagine that even liberated, post-feminist women could relate to the three feisty chicks at the centre of Can You Forgive Her? Pushed willy-nilly onto the marriage..."
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“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
― Isaiah Berlin
― Isaiah Berlin
“Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.”
― Charles Baudelaire
― Charles Baudelaire
“She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.”
― Marcel Proust
― Marcel Proust
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake
― William Blake
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A Million Little Book Reports
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It's an addiction memoir. I haven't actually written it yet, because I'm still gathering my material by living through the agony and despair.
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