false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179182135m/885230.jpg 14316 26 2166883 book 2006 Black Swan Green: A Novel total:3459|5:999|4:1517|3:726|2:170|1:47| 3459 13628 4946 662 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 5 12 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 08:55:34 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 08:56:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 2 8 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 20:26:51 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 05:21:28 -0700 2007
Me: "It's about this little stuttering English kid who lives out in some little village during the Thatcher era, and sort of like, his coming of age kind of experiences?"

Coworker: "Oh God, that sounds awful."
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I liked the writing. I read that it is semi-autobiographical, and it seems like the kind of book that I'd like to write about myself--just remembering what it was like to be 13. Remembering all the ins and outs of it. Thirteen wa...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 4 2 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 17 07:05:21 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 07:05:21 -0700 2008 Cloud Atlas but definitely seems more finished. It's a year in the life of Jason Taylor, a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in the small English town of Black Swan Green, in a family that's on the verge of breaking apart. In the hands of another author this...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 4 2 false Mon Jul 02 09:59:45 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 01:25:16 -0700 2007
Anyhow, this would fall into the "occasional awesomeness" category....more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 5 2 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 06:37:57 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 14:16:16 -0700 2007 816654 0340822791 9780340822791 44 13 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178654054m/816654.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816654.Black_Swan_Green 3 1 false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 07:57:29 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 11:21:00 -0700 2008 You never know what you're going to get when you read a 'coming of age' book. When you get right down to it, they're often very indulgent and narcissistic exercises in creative non-fiction masquerading as the experience of the typical (or atypical, as they'd want you to believe) teenager or yo...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 5 1 false Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 14:35:24 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 17:22:48 -0700 2008 Black Swan Green is, in my opinion, a great piece of contemporary fiction. I really enjoyed Mitchell's characterization and use of episodic and unresolved short stories that combine to evoke a very strong empathy in the ...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 5 1 false Sun Mar 30 21:46:31 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 21:46:53 -0700 2008
This book has a very s...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 3 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 22 18:23:28 -0800 2008 Tue May 13 17:23:56 -0700 2008
Before this one, I read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas which is totally, totally awesome! I mean, like, really awesome. And from that book, I already had David Mitchell pegged as on...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 5 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 21:07:37 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 16:50:30 -0700 2007
Ugg... Anyway.

No,...more...]]> 548474 0340822805 9780340822807 171 40 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175710561m/548474.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548474.Black_Swan_Green 0 1 false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Aug 18 22:05:29 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 22:05:29 -0700 2007
Black Swan Green ...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 4 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 07:37:49 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 08:08:03 -0700 2007 This story is about a 13 year old boy in a small town in England. It begins in January and runs through the year to the next January. Each ...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 3 1 false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 10 12:23:23 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 06 11:34:35 -0700 2008
This book is a year in the life of Jason Taylor, a young British boy trapped between being a child and being a teen. He's bullied because ...more...]]> 14316 0812974018 9780812974010 2954 533 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166586589m/14316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green_A_Novel 5 1 false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:40:43 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 10 22:01:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=885230