false \ 6696533 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250056027m/6696533.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250056027m/6696533.jpg 297673 27 3281466 book 6 9 2007 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao total:24083|5:7329|4:9696|3:4815|2:1638|1:630| 24083 93675 37925 6078 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 1 83 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 17 07:12:08 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 15 23:33:21 -0800 2009
Review of Junot D...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 4 30 false Thu Apr 10 08:04:37 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 08:05:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 2 34 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 08:17:29 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 08:34:15 -0800 2007 Oscar Wao as a birthday gift for my mother in October based on scores of sterling reviews. She read it, gave it a mild thumbs-up (probably just being nice) and handed it off to me. Now having read it, I'm pretty mortified I thought this book would be something she might like.

Th...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 5 29 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 16:51:15 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 21:10:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 2 23 false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 31 04:06:50 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 08 07:47:08 -0800 2009 TBWLOOW would have been a ‘good read’, I honestly believe that, but I don't know… something happened along the way.

Maybe it was the fact that I started this during the holidays, and that's not fair to any book, I'm the biggest wench from November 15th to January 15th. I should li...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 5 22 false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 19:40:37 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 22 13:53:02 -0800 2009 1 HOUR LATER

I got nothing! I’ve deleted like 20 paragraphs!

1 HOUR LATER!!! 2 bruises in my forehead, kind of dizzy, I’ve cursed the gods of knowledge for being born without literary ...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 1 21 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 14:13:40 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 13:48:41 -0700 2008 Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby. In it's preface, Hornby discusses why reading has fallen by the wayside as of late. A lot of people associate reading with boredom because to most, it feels like a chore to get through novels. If...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 1 25 false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 18:14:58 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 28 19:49:39 -0800 2009
So, the one star rating is more of a reaction to the emot...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 4 15 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 11:31:13 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 12:36:53 -0700 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' has been steadily building since it was released almost a year ago, the book I picked up at the bookstore had a big, gold starburst attached to it reading 'WINNER - 2008 Pulitzer Prize', ...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 4 12 false Thu Dec 20 04:22:06 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 14 15:08:30 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 04:19:51 -0800 2007 more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 5 10 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 17:27:39 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:37:53 -0800 2009
...and devoured it, in a couple days. First, I was a fan of _Drown_, Diaz' collection (now 10 years old), particularly for its ability to define and then to defy the painful events narrated. One of the stories is a masterpiece about two bo...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 4 12 false Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 12:33:28 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 12:19:46 -0700 2008 and with no footnote, i might add!!!

In an interview, Juno...more...]]> 2629628 1594483299 9781594483295 1307 331 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571632m/2629628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2629628.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 4 8 false Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 13 16:16:30 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 23:20:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2629628 1594483299 9781594483295 1307 331 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571632m/2629628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2629628.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 4 8 false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 08 14:19:36 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 10 05:30:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 5 7 false Sat Nov 03 08:33:07 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 25 08:27:15 -0700 2008
OK, I read it.

I cannot help but be influenced by our country's current talk about illegal immigrants, which has led to public discourse about immigrant...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 3 7 false Wed Sep 19 11:22:43 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 23 19:17:02 -0800 2008
The biggest feeling I had was anger that our world does this to people (Oscar, that is). It shame...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 3 8 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 12:07:10 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 13:56:12 -0800 2007 more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 4 6 false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 11:47:25 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 08:46:17 -0700 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao few of...more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 2 9 false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 09:38:50 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 20:23:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 297673 1594489580 9781594489587 21709 5398 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571633m/297673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao 5 5 false Sat Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 08 14:50:05 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 09:21:47 -0700 2008 “I did all I could and it still wasn’t enough.”

“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”

Meet O...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6696533