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Tipping the Velvet
Tipping the Velvet
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Start date
September 1, 2012
Finish date
September 30, 2012
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Lord Beardsley
Jan 27, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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I adore this novel. It's a Dickensian Lesbian novel with one of my personally favorite characters in literature. I've re-read this multiple times since, and could easily read it ten times more. I mean, what more can you ask out of a gripping read? Music halls, Victorian Drag Kings, devilish seductresses, transgender female-to-male male prostitution, lesbos, sexual underground dens of vice, picturesque sentimentality...it's got everything I could ask for. I could see how this wouldn't be for ever ...more
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tee
Jan 16, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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This is different to what I usually read and yet I still enjoyed it. I enjoyed the mini-series more (and I rarely like the film version better), but it was still a good read. I actually look forward to reading it again. I like it better than Waters' other books. ...more
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Danielle
May 08, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Jun 20, 2007 rated it really liked it
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Michelle
Jan 05, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Aug 27, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Jul 07, 2010 rated it did not like it
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Jul 18, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Becca
Jan 16, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Jun 01, 2011 marked it as to-read
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