false <![CDATA[Strong Motion]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166510244m/12827.jpg 12827 7 Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of earthquakes and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes cause complicate everything. 1374 1992 Strong Motion total:580|5:64|4:208|3:206|2:79|1:23| 580 1951 826 72 5 4 false false Fri Apr 04 12:18:38 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 16:53:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 09:19:20 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 10:43:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 05:07:45 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 18:13:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 10:50:36 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 16:29:47 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 18:05:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 18:21:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 11:31:24 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 18:08:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 17:19:01 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 11:01:41 -0700 2009 The Corrections. This one was very, very different. Flawed but also very good.

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don't forget to live happily ever after.



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It's the story of Louis Holland, who moves to Boston, meets seismologist Renee Se...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 22 20:18:32 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 20:36:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 02 14:15:03 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 03 04:55:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 10:24:02 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 11:00:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue May 19 19:50:05 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 19:51:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Wed Aug 22 16:21:05 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 16:22:43 -0700 2007 Strong Motion, Franzen takes his place in the smart young writer pantheon along luminaries such as David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest, duh) and Richard Price. This book contains more compelling insights about what it is like to be a dorky, disaffected, intelligent young person then a whole tru...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 06:29:22 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 15:19:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 09:40:39 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 19:28:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12827