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Christine Mehring

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Average rating: 4.05 · 38 ratings · 22 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Bitter Blessings 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Gerhard Richter: Panorama by Gerhard Richter, Mark Godfrey (Editor), Nicholas Serota (Editor) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Christine Mehring is currently reading:

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

by Ruth Reichl

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Christine Mehring liked Mariya's review of The Time Traveler's Wife: " i feel there is a special circle of hell reserved for authors who make a fortune by blatantly ripping off better--but less mainstream--authors from the past and passing the ideas off as their own. I therefore will not review this book but instead... " Read more of this review »
May 04, 2012 11:36pm · see review
Christine Mehring liked Shan B's review of The Time Traveler's Wife: " Let me start this by saying I was very excited to read this book. I thought it was going to be good. It is not in any way good. It could have been good, the idea could have soared but in Niffenegger's hands it was destroyed by laundry lists of gro... " Read more of this review »
May 04, 2012 11:32pm · see review
Christine Mehring liked Liz S.'s review of The Time Traveler's Wife: " I recently read The Time-Traveler's Wife and was pretty disappointed---the author somehow manages to turn such an awesome premise (the dude actually time travels!) into something pretty flat and prosaic and dull. The first hundred pages really hoo... " Read more of this review »
May 04, 2012 11:14pm · see review
Christine Mehring is currently reading: Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl	My rating:
Jan 17, 2012 06:15pm
Christine Mehring gave to: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt	My rating:
Jan 16, 2012 01:27am
Christine Mehring gave to: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger read in September, 2012	My rating:
I really loved this book.
Jan 16, 2012 01:26am · see review
Christine Mehring gave to: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author) read in November, 2010	My rating:
I really expected a lot more from this than was actually there. I finished it with an overwhelming sense of "meh".
Jan 16, 2012 01:25am · see review
Christine Mehring gave to: How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher	My rating:
Jan 16, 2012 01:23am
Christine Mehring gave to: The Language of Bees (Mary Russell, #9) by Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Jan 16, 2012 01:23am
Christine Mehring gave to: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman read in January, 2012	My rating:
This would have been 4 stars, but there was a lot of profanity. It contains "mature themes" and is not for the tender-eared or easily offended, but it was beautifully written - lyrical in places - and the author is keenly observant of relationships....more
Jan 15, 2012 10:44pm · see review