Mike's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/165395 en-US Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:22:52 -0700 60 Mike's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 30606854 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:22:52 -0700 <![CDATA[The Writer's Image: Literary Portraits]]> The Writer's Image: Literary Portraits
author: Jill Krementz
name: Mike
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1980
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 08/19/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 10687969 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:10:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld]]> Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
author: Junichi Saga
name: Mike
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1995
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/18/08
shelves: in-translation
review:

]]> 30369899 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:17:10 -0700 <![CDATA[Half the Day Is Night]]> Half the Day Is Night
author: Maureen F. McHugh
name: Mike
average rating: 3.20
book published: 1996
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 08/17/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 9341140 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:24:39 -0700 <![CDATA[The Radetzky March]]> The Radetzky March
author: Joseph Roth
name: Mike
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/16/08
shelves: in-translation
review:

]]> 30209327 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:32:07 -0700 <![CDATA[Wonders of the West]]> Wonders of the West
author: Kate Braverman
name: Mike
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 08/15/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 10334487 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:18:16 -0700 <![CDATA[Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs]]> Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs
author: William T. Vollmann
name: Mike
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/13/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 20980151 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:23:29 -0700 <![CDATA[Pictures from an Institution (Phoenix Fiction Series)]]> Pictures from an Institution (Phoenix Fiction Series)
author: Randall Jarrell
name: Mike
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1986
rating: 5
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/11/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 29830992 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:48:07 -0700 <![CDATA[The Blue Place]]> The Blue Place
author: Nicola Griffith
name: Mike
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/11/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 4326935 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:15:27 -0700 <![CDATA[Times Square Red, Times Square Blue]]> Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
author: Samuel R. Delany
name: Mike
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/08/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 29665272 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:15:56 -0700 <![CDATA[The Great Movies II]]> The Great Movies II
author: Roger Ebert
name: Mike
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/08/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 29665267 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:15:53 -0700 <![CDATA[The Great Movies]]> The Great Movies
author: Roger Ebert
name: Mike
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/08/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 29655185 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:03:00 -0700 <![CDATA[The Farming of Bones]]> The Farming of Bones
author: Edwidge Danticat
name: Mike
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1999
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 08/08/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 4618941 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:57:32 -0700 <![CDATA[The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics)]]> The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics)
author: Colette
name: Mike
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/07/08
shelves: in-translation
review:

]]> 17488397 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:51:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Seven Notebooks: Poems]]> Seven Notebooks: Poems
author: Campbell McGrath
name: Mike
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/06/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 4074574 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:34:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Hangover Square]]> Hangover Square
author: Patrick Hamilton
name: Mike
average rating: 4.25
book published: 0
rating: 5
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/04/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 29122831 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:05:03 -0700 <![CDATA[Let It Come Down]]> Let It Come Down
author: Paul Bowles
name: Mike
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1953
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/03/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 4185961 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:02:07 -0700 <![CDATA[The Face of Another]]> The Face of Another
author: Kobo Abe
name: Mike
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/02/08
shelves: in-translation
review:

]]> 28938199 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:33:16 -0700 <![CDATA[The White Mary: A Novel]]> The White Mary: A Novel
author: Kira Salak
name: Mike
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 07/31/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28938121 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:32:20 -0700 <![CDATA[Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land]]> Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
author: Amy Irvine
name: Mike
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/31/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28712391 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:58:29 -0700 <![CDATA[J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography]]> J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography
author: Rick Geary
name: Mike
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2008
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 07/29/08
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 28712386 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:58:18 -0700 <![CDATA[Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography]]> Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography
author: Andrew Helfer
name: Mike
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2007
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 07/29/08
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 28676237 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:12:00 -0700 <![CDATA[A Separate Peace]]> A Separate Peace
author: John Knowles
name: Mike
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1959
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 07/29/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28653407 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:15:07 -0700 <![CDATA[Squandering the Blue: -- Stories]]> Squandering the Blue: -- Stories
author: Kate Braverman
name: Mike
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1990
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/29/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 9869810 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:29:46 -0700 <![CDATA[Staring Back]]> Staring Back
author: Chris Marker
name: Mike
average rating: 4.71
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/28/08
shelves: in-translation
review:

]]> 2606930 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:28:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams]]> Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
author: Diane Waldman
name: Mike
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/28/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 12066398 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:48:40 -0700 <![CDATA[Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye]]> Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye
author: Alex Baker
name: Mike
average rating: 4.89
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/27/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 28393480 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:50:25 -0700 <![CDATA[Kafka]]> Kafka
author: Robert Crumb
name: Mike
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: comics, favorites
review:

]]> 28392390 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:35:30 -0700 <![CDATA[Sleeping in Flame]]> Sleeping in Flame
author: Jonathan Carroll
name: Mike
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1990
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28392340 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:34:59 -0700 <![CDATA[Deep South]]> Deep South
author: Sally Mann
name: Mike
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28392335 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:34:54 -0700 <![CDATA[What Remains]]> What Remains
author: Sally Mann
name: Mike
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28392330 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:34:50 -0700 <![CDATA[Immediate Family]]> Immediate Family
author: Sally Mann
name: Mike
average rating: 4.76
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 28392311 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:34:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Robert Frank: The Americans]]> Robert Frank: The Americans
author: Robert Frank
name: Mike
average rating: 4.85
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28391569 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:26:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Lucky]]> Lucky
author: Gabrielle Bell
name: Mike
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 28391511 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:25:38 -0700 <![CDATA[Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories]]> Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories
author: Jason
name: Mike
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 28391456 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:25:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Hey, Wait...]]> Hey, Wait...
author: Jason
name: Mike
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 3104340 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:18:39 -0700 <![CDATA[Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls]]> Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls
author: Zak Smith
name: Mike
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 10384200 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:14:12 -0700 <![CDATA[It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken]]> It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
author: Seth
name: Mike
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: comics, favorites
review:

]]> 17018867 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:27:27 -0700 <![CDATA[Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Penguin Classics)]]> Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Penguin Classics)
author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
name: Mike
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1980
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/25/08
shelves: in-translation
review:

]]> 10386729 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:52:00 -0700 <![CDATA[The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount]]> The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
author: Italo Calvino
name: Mike
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1977
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/19/08
shelves: favorites, in-translation
review:

]]> 27672111 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:07:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Six Moral Tales]]> Six Moral Tales
author: Éric Rohmer
name: Mike
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1980
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/18/08
shelves: in-translation
review:

]]> 9964359 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:54:25 -0700 <![CDATA[1984]]> 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Mike
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1949
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/16/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 27453266 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:21:34 -0700 <![CDATA[Wavemaker II: A Novel]]> Wavemaker II: A Novel
author: Mary-Beth Hughes
name: Mike
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2003
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 07/16/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 20522832 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:21:15 -0700 <![CDATA[The Meat and Spirit Plan]]> The Meat and Spirit Plan
author: Selah Saterstrom
name: Mike
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/15/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 24711390 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:22:11 -0700 <![CDATA[All the Sad Young Literary Men]]> All the Sad Young Literary Men
author: Keith Gessen
name: Mike
average rating: 2.93
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/13/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 11186876 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:33:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Palm Latitudes]]> Palm Latitudes
author: Kate Braverman
name: Mike
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/11/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 26945801 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:24:35 -0700 <![CDATA[La Jetée: ciné-roman]]> La Jetée: ciné-roman
author: Chris Marker
name: Mike
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1996
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 07/11/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 26861431 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:19:59 -0700 <![CDATA[Kalimantan]]> Kalimantan
author: Lucius Shepard
name: Mike
average rating: 3.36
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 07/10/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 26647016 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:30:46 -0700 <![CDATA[Rite of Passage]]> Rite of Passage
author: Alexei Panshin
name: Mike
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1968
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/08/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 25772648 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:30:28 -0700 <![CDATA[The Deceivers]]> The Deceivers
author: Alfred Bester
name: Mike
average rating: 2.00
book published: 1982
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 07/08/08
shelves:
review:
To read "The Demolished Man" and then this book back-to-back is to witness a compelling argument against literary alcoholism.
]]> 25953712 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:43:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Because I Was Flesh]]> Because I Was Flesh
author: Edward Dahlberg
name: Mike
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/30/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 10013086 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:20:35 -0700 <![CDATA[But I Like It]]> But I Like It
author: Joe Sacco
name: Mike
average rating: 3.26
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/29/08
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 4159619 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:17:17 -0700 <![CDATA[Tristessa]]> Tristessa
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Mike
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/26/08
shelves:
review:
A graceful, gentle, sadhearted book--less macho than "On the Road," less crank-addled than "The Subterraneans," but probably better than either.
]]> 25610598 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:59:13 -0700 <![CDATA[A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments]]> A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
author: David Foster Wallace
name: Mike
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1998
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/26/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 21464406 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:49:38 -0700 <![CDATA[Farewell Navigator: Stories]]> Farewell Navigator: Stories
author: Leni Zumas
name: Mike
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/26/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 2817477 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:47:46 -0700 <![CDATA[Remainder]]> Remainder
author: Tom McCarthy
name: Mike
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/25/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 24931710 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:40:23 -0700 <![CDATA[What I Heard about Iraq]]> What I Heard about Iraq
author: Eliot Weinberger
name: Mike
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2305
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/19/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 24931707 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:40:20 -0700 <![CDATA[9/12: New York After]]> 9/12: New York After
author: Eliot Weinberger
name: Mike
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/19/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 10266510 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:42:12 -0700 <![CDATA[What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles]]> What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles
author: Eliot Weinberger
name: Mike
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/19/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 24900410 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:49:29 -0700 <![CDATA[Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making]]> Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making
author: Stan Brakhage
name: Mike
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/19/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 24707550 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:10:21 -0700 <![CDATA[The Waste Land: Facsimile Edition]]> The Waste Land: Facsimile Edition
author: T.S. Eliot
name: Mike
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/17/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 24343702 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:57:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader]]> Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader
author: William T. Vollmann
name: Mike
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/12/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 8310394 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:53:21 -0700 <![CDATA[An Elemental Thing (New Directions Paperbook)]]> An Elemental Thing (New Directions Paperbook)
author: Eliot Weinberger
name: Mike
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 06/07/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 17894397 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:34:55 -0700 <![CDATA[The Lazarus Project]]> The Lazarus Project
author: Aleksandar Hemon
name: Mike
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/06/08
shelves: favorites
review:
A new Hemon novel?! And I was not informed!?!?
]]> 22866281 Sat, 24 May 2008 07:37:46 -0700 <![CDATA[Midnight Movies (Da Capo Paperback)]]> Midnight Movies (Da Capo Paperback)
author: Jim Hoberman
name: Mike
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1991
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/24/08
shelves: favorites
review:

]]> 22599814 Tue, 20 May 2008 00:13:29 -0700 <![CDATA[Wit : A Play]]> Wit : A Play
author: Margaret Edson
name: Mike
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/20/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 22599378 Mon, 19 May 2008 23:47:43 -0700 <![CDATA[The Fox Woman]]>