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author: Sarah Waters
name: Kris
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/01/08
shelves: manbooker-prize
review:
It was good...but man. Downer. War is so depressing sometimes.
]]> 4490537 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:26:53 -0700
author: Iny Lorentz
name: Kris
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 09/09/07
shelves: german
review:
Yeah. A lot of rape, but a lot of history too. Though sometimes it's hard to tell one from the other...
]]> 4990615 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:45:50 -0700
author: Günter Grass
name: Kris
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1959
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: german, started-reading-put-it-down
review:
I started reading this in English, and then in German. Met with lack of success on both fronts. Maybe next time.
]]> 3783134 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:54:18 -0700
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Kris
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 08/13/07
shelves: fantasy-esque
review:
Good, but I thought this would be be the last one so I approached it in the wrongest possible way. Also, confusing.
]]> 4490526 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:53:07 -0700
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: Kris
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 08/13/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
Yeah, I am not ready for this jelly.
]]> 1120325 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:52:46 -0700
author: Sarah Monette
name: Kris
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/13/07
shelves: fantasy-esque
review:
Yeah, this book felt very much like filler.
]]> 3783764 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:09:38 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Kris
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/30/07
shelves: fantasy-esque, young-adult-lit
review:
THE EPILOGUE SUCKED SO GODDAMN HARD. The rest of it was ok though.
]]> 2778669 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:31:13 -0700
author: Flannery O'Connor
name: Kris
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1955
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/06/07
shelves:
review:
Surprisingly not sucky, though I like Mary whatshername better.
]]> 2211848 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:34:25 -0700
author: William "Wilkie" Collins
name: Kris
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1868
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 06/21/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
My cover was cooler, but I wasn't in the mood for was seemed like a watered-down version of Heart of Darkness.
]]> 1224499 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:33:29 -0700
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Kris
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2007
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 06/21/07
shelves:
review:
Totally not the book I'd have picked to read after Melusine and The Virtu, because: craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap. Crap crap crap crap CRAP. You are FIRED, Harris - I'm so done with this series, so here's hoping HBO gets really creative with the story lines, or ditches them altogether, because a vampire 9/11 is NOT OK. It's CRAP, actually.
]]> 2211917 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:29:16 -0700
author: Christine Vachon
name: Kris
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 06/21/07
shelves: nonfiction
review:
This was actually really good and interesting - I read it for my awesome erstwhile Fametracker book club. Sigh.
]]> 1510934 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:09:48 -0700
author: Marisha Pessl
name: Kris
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 06/05/07
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review:
No German is going to call a damn terrorist group Nächtlich. That makes no sense, grammatically or conceptually. Die Nächtlichen, perhaps. But most likely not. You lose a star for that, Pessl! Don't get all smart and shit with the various languages and then not check the grammar! Was there no foreign language editor at Penguin who could fix the myriad language mistakes in this sucker? This may be pedantic, but hey.
]]> 1224551 Tue, 29 May 2007 07:18:43 -0700 Not sure I'm a fan of distrustful narrators, but on the whole this book was damn good, and made me want to just up and move somewhere and give birth to some baby girls. ]]>
author: Kate Atkinson
name: Kris
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/29/07
shelves:
review:
Oh, I love me some Ruby. (Nerd!)
Not sure I'm a fan of distrustful narrators, but on the whole this book was damn good, and made me want to just up and move somewhere and give birth to some baby girls.
]]> 1374361 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:21:09 -0700
author: Toni Morrison
name: Kris
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2004
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
It is my firm belief that one can only read so much Toni Morrison, so I'm full up.
]]> 1374355 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:19:45 -0700
author: Toni Morrison
name: Kris
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1993
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:

]]> 1374324 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:18:30 -0700
author: Chloe Hooper
name: Kris
average rating: 2.82
book published: 2003
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
This book made Australia sound boring. Sounds like a feat to me, considering they have kangaroos and duckbilled platypuses. Platypusi?
]]> 1374260 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:14:02 -0700
author: James Meek
name: Kris
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: manbooker-prize, started-reading-put-it-down
review:
Like 7 horses are killed within the first 5 pages. You try reading past that.
]]> 1374215 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:12:27 -0700
author: Marina Lewycka
name: Kris
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: manbooker-prize
review:
LOVED this book. Read it! It is so funny, so traumatizing, so amazing.
]]> 1374162 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:10:58 -0700
author: Barry Unsworth
name: Kris
average rating: 2.90
book published: 2007
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
It was a little too much like Halsband der Taube, so I put it down. I can only read so many far east/harem-related stories before I stop caring.
]]> 1374098 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:04:49 -0700
author: E.L. Konigsburg
name: Kris
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1967
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
Loved this book, loved the shoutout in The Royal Tenenbaums.
]]> 1374076 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:04:15 -0700
author: Ellen Raskin
name: Kris
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1978
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I wish I'd been a kid when I read this. I ended up reading this when I was in my late teens, maybe even early 20s. Seems a waste.
]]> 1374027 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:01:52 -0700
author: Agatha Christie
name: Kris
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1939
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves:
review:
I vaguely remember being intrigued.
]]> 1374008 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:01:11 -0700
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Kris
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1987
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves:
review:
Bri told me this would be like Harry Potter in Japanese. Yeah, maybe.
]]> 1374016 Tue, 22 May 2007 17:01:03 -0700
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Kris
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1990
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/22/07
shelves:
review:
My favorite Murakami.
]]> 1342637 Mon, 21 May 2007 10:30:14 -0700
author: Alexander Hamilton
name: Kris
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2004
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down, teacher-mandated
review:
I think taking a look at the bookshelves it's on will explain how I feel about this book.
]]> 1341427 Mon, 21 May 2007 09:49:29 -0700
author: Elizabeth George Speare
name: Kris
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1978
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
Haaaaaaaaated it.
]]> 1339547 Mon, 21 May 2007 08:13:30 -0700
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Kris
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: graphic-novels, started-reading-put-it-down
review:
Actually, I started reading it at B&N but didn't have any money at the time so...I gotta get on this because I love everything Brian K. Vaughn does. Although that's not going to make me watch the unholy mess of a show that is Lost.
]]> 1338649 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:42:46 -0700
author: Judy Blume
name: Kris
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
See, Summer Sisters was good, but the cover to this is so cheeeeeeeeeeeeesy. And I've read books with Fabio on the cover, so that's saying something.
]]> 1338438 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:41:35 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1981
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
Damn Maggie Gyllenhaal to hell for bogarting this name. Ramona is MY future-daughter's name, damnit!
]]> 1338624 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:38:43 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1958
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I think I read this book in a moment of desperation. Not sure why.
]]> 1338604 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:38:18 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2003
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
God, I must have loved me some Beverly Cleary cuz damn. Who's read this book other than me? And the sister? A total pill.
]]> 1338563 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:37:22 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1979
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I was obsessed with this kid and his Schwinn and his white-wall tires.
]]> 1338561 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:35:47 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1957
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
The man who gets my Henry Huggins references is the man I'm going to marry.
]]> 1338543 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:34:57 -0700
author: Judy Blume
name: Kris
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1974
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
Hit too close to home.
]]> 1338535 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:34:42 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1965
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
Sorry Michael J. Fox - you ruined this book for me.
]]> 1338533 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:34:24 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1979
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:

]]> 1338449 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:34:14 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1983
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I loved this book as a kid - it's the only reason I know how to spell "friend."
]]> 1338447 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:31:02 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:

]]> 1338445 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:30:55 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1977
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:

]]> 1338443 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:30:54 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1975
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:

]]> 1338441 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:30:52 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1984
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:

]]> 1338440 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:30:50 -0700
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Kris
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1968
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:

]]> 1338399 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:29:29 -0700
author: Alexander McCall Smith
name: Kris
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1998
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 1338369 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:28:42 -0700
author: Donald J. Sobol
name: Kris
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1987
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I don't remember loving this book. Or series.
]]> 1338356 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:28:02 -0700
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Kris
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: fantasy-esque
review:
One of my favorite books ever.
]]> 1338338 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:27:25 -0700
author: Ha Jin
name: Kris
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2000
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
Fell asleep while I was reading this, and while that is kind of normal, I think I was a page in, drinking coffee and everything. That's no good.
]]> 1338279 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:26:44 -0700
author: Dai Sijie
name: Kris
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves:
review:
I...didn't like this book. There are 8 trillion books on the variety of experiences various Chinese folks had during the Cultural Revolution and this one? Bored me. Like, really? All that craziness going on and you two smarties are fighting over some chick? It's like HP6 all over again.
]]> 1338276 Mon, 21 May 2007 07:24:42 -0700
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Kris
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1983
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/21/07
shelves: fantasy-esque
review:
I heart the discworld series.
]]> 1272987 Thu, 17 May 2007 10:21:59 -0700
author: Eleanor H. Porter
name: Kris
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1988
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/17/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I actually liked this book. I don't remember the movie, if I even saw it, but I'm sure the book was better. Even though Jane Wyman is awesome because she reminds me of my oma.
]]> 319422 Wed, 16 May 2007 06:42:33 -0700
author: Samantha Power
name: Kris
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2003
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/16/07
shelves: started-reading-put-it-down
review:
Nothing like reading a book on genocide while on your period.
]]> 1244849 Wed, 16 May 2007 06:41:42 -0700
author: Philip Pullman
name: Kris
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/16/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
My favorite of the series, because of the anthropological study of the nut-riding-antelope-things. I loved that part so much.
]]> 1244847 Wed, 16 May 2007 06:41:04 -0700
author: Philip Pullman
name: Kris
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/16/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I remember thinking whatshisname was hot. And by whatshisname I mean damn near every male character in this book, including the Icelandic polar bear. Sad.
]]> 1244824 Wed, 16 May 2007 06:40:02 -0700
author: Philip Pullman
name: Kris
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/16/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
I love this series and read the entire thing in one night. Need to reread pre- the movie coming out.
]]> 1244806 Wed, 16 May 2007 06:39:14 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Kris
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1998
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 05/16/07
shelves: young-adult-lit
review:
After the capslockHarry book my least favorite in the series.
]]> 1120311 Mon, 14 May 2007 12:21:55 -0700
author: Sarah Monette
name: Kris
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/14/07
shelves:
review:
Fuck me sideways til I cry this book was awesome.
]]> 842401 Wed, 09 May 2007 08:18:16 -0700
In any case, the one problem I have is the same one I have with most fantasy/whatev books: the environment is so interesting that I'd want to read a boring old history book about it - give me more goddamn details! I want to hear more about Brinvillier Strych and Porphyria Levant! Arg!

And Monette is clutch when it comes to naming things. ]]>
author: Sarah Monette
name: Kris
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 05/09/07
shelves:
review:
Ok. So this book fucken rocked. You don't get the whole story til the end (which: ok) but damn is it good. Reminded me the tiniest bit of Stardust, but only because there's a journey involved but it doesn't skip over the good stuff like Gaiman did.

In any case, the one problem I have is the same one I have with most fantasy/whatev books: the environment is so interesting that I'd want to read a boring old history book about it - give me more goddamn details! I want to hear more about Brinvillier Strych and Porphyria Levant! Arg!

And Monette is clutch when it comes to naming things.
]]> 1119719 Wed, 09 May 2007 08:13:47 -0700
author: Bill Watterson
name: Kris
average rating: 4.65
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 05/09/07
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
Does this count as a graphic novel?
]]> 1119709 Wed, 09 May 2007 08:13:27 -0700
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Kris
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1963
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/09/07
shelves:
review:
I felt like I was going crazy while I was reading this book. If that's what Plath was going for, then good for her.
]]> 1119687 Wed, 09 May 2007 08:12:35 -0700
author: Orhan Pamuk
name: Kris
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2005
rating: 0