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Maria Bustillos

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Just some chick.

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Average rating: 3.65 · 54 ratings · 29 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Dorkismo: The Macho of the Dork 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Act Like A Gentleman, Think Like A Woman: A Woman's Response To Steve Harvey's Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man 3.39 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Tartare
by M. Trevelean (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 03, 2012 09:38am

Maria Bustillos liked Melissa's review of Act Like A Gentleman, Think Like A Woman:

Act Like A Gentleman, Think Like A Woman by Maria Bustillos

" Won on first reads. As the world lost a great lady when my wonderful friend, Ramona, just passed away, this review will serve for her. She will be dearly missed and cancer will be cursed for taking her from us so young.

This is an awesome book! I a... "
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Dec 24, 2009 11:08am · see review

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Alive in Necropolis
by Doug Dorst (Goodreads Author)

read in November, 2009

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Alive in Necropolis has the compulsive page-turning wallop of Harlan Coben or Robert Harris, and the nostalgic pleasures of a fine San Francisco history; it's got ghosts, and all sorts of very cool and ingeniously imagined supernatural wrinkles to do...more Alive in Necropolis has the compulsive page-turning wallop of Harlan Coben or Robert Harris, and the nostalgic pleasures of a fine San Francisco history; it's got ghosts, and all sorts of very cool and ingeniously imagined supernatural wrinkles to do with them, like ghost-killing, and even ghost-policing. It has villains and heroes, sordid drug dens and doomed love affairs, booze-soaked fiascos and hair's-breadth escapes. And it's sad, and surprising, and very, very funny. The dialogue in particular is superfine. I imagine that Dorst's wise-cracking cops will make an absolutely rawkin' movie. (I had already cast Adrien Grenier as Mike Mercer, our hero, before I reached the end.)

Mercer is a cop with issues, working in the necropolis of Colma, California--which is a real place, a tiny town made up largely of cemeteries. In Doug Dorst's Colma, however, there is justice to be done among the dead as well as the living. The novel threads between the future and the past, love and loneliness, the crimes and passions of ghosts and of living men and women. Mike Mercer's story is told against this effortlessly-wrought, pleasurably strange and complex background, and Dorst elevates him onto that rare, high plane of the novelist's art where we come as we read to believe that Mercer is a real person, someone we know; someone we'd like to scold, to argue with, to embrace and comfort.

Indeed, Dorst grants all his weird cast of characters--the washed-up and wasted, the 19th-c. criminals, the stoners and thieves and homeless guys lost on the streets--a rare compassion. His kindness and keen perception flow over all equally, like a benediction. That's what really makes the book such an enjoyable read: the author is a boon companion, witty but never self-regarding, clever without the slightest pretension. The NYT called this book "big-hearted" and I can't do better than agree with them, except to add that it is also one of those rare policiers that succeeds in communicating a deeper purpose.

To illustrate this point: one of the main themes of A. in N. is that a man should "die like an aviator," to wit, having flown; having taken the risk of flying, of having lived. Dorst weaves this simple, valuable message quite unabashedly, playfully even, through multiple layers of his novel. I just loved that, that such an exciting, thriller-paced ghost story should also be so innocently serious and just good, you know--it really sent me. Highly, highly recommended.(less)

Nov 09, 2009 04:56pm · see review

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Maria Bustillos liked Oliver's review of Act Like A Gentleman, Think Like A Woman:

" On the face of it, this is a book for men about how to get laid. It was written, apparently, as a response to the bestselling Act Like A Lady Think Like A Man by the comedian, Steve Harvey, which is supposed to instruct women in the psychology of... "
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Nov 01, 2009 07:45pm · see review

Maria Bustillos liked Ann's review of Act Like A Gentleman, Think Like A Woman:

" True story. Really.

I honestly thought that being a girl this book wouldn't be entertaining and I would be appauled by what i read but in fact i found it funny and above all smart.

Truth be told it made me a better wingman for my bros. :) "
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Nov 01, 2009 07:45pm · see review

Maria Bustillos gave

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Sentence of Marriage by Shayne Parkinson

Sentence of Marriage (Promises to Keep, #1)
by Shayne Parkinson (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 13, 2009 11:41am

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