Joe's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/275198 en-US Mon, 26 May 2008 07:02:36 -0700 60 Joe's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 22970258 Mon, 26 May 2008 07:02:36 -0700 <![CDATA[The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions]]> The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions
author: Edward C. Smith
name: Joe
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> 21155465 Mon, 26 May 2008 06:57:56 -0700 <![CDATA[John Adams]]>
McCollough's treatment of Adams reminds me of his biography of Truman. He tends to downplay the bad -- in particular, their dabbling in political patronage. Both subjects also seem similar in their normal-guy-ness.

I was most interested in Adams's story in the way it told the story of the evolution of American politics. So when the story shifted from government to life on the farm, I found myself wishing for more about power. I wanted to ditch the old man and start following John Quincy around.]]> John Adams
author: David McCullough
name: Joe
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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Picked this up after watching the HBO series. John Adams is now one of my favorite characters from history. Other than the alien and sedition act, he did alright. Anti-slavery the whole way.

McCollough's treatment of Adams reminds me of his biography of Truman. He tends to downplay the bad -- in particular, their dabbling in political patronage. Both subjects also seem similar in their normal-guy-ness.

I was most interested in Adams's story in the way it told the story of the evolution of American politics. So when the story shifted from government to life on the farm, I found myself wishing for more about power. I wanted to ditch the old man and start following John Quincy around.
]]> 20628458 Mon, 26 May 2008 06:48:38 -0700 <![CDATA[On Speaking Well]]>
Even if you're not a speech writer, or not planning to give a speech, it's worth reading if only to understand why Obama's a good speaker and Hillary is not.]]> On Speaking Well
author: Peggy Noonan
name: Joe
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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This will rank among the most influential books of my life. It's given me an entirely new (and improved) perspective on writing and political rhetoric.

Even if you're not a speech writer, or not planning to give a speech, it's worth reading if only to understand why Obama's a good speaker and Hillary is not.
]]> 20628483 Mon, 26 May 2008 06:48:27 -0700 <![CDATA[Runner's World Guide to Cross-Training]]> Runner's World Guide to Cross-Training
author: Matt Fitzgerald
name: Joe
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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This book is now permanently in my spare bedroom (training room). The principles he's laid out here will be a part of my training routine for years to come.
]]> 18831279 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:02:16 -0700 <![CDATA[Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners: How to Fuel Your Body for Stronger Workouts, Faster Recovery, and Your Best Race Times Ever]]> Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners: How to Fuel Your Body for Stronger Workouts, Faster Recovery, and Your Best Race Times Ever
author: Matt Fitzgerald
name: Joe
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 03/08
date added: 04/21/08
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This one was so so. Some good info about anti-inflammatory diet. Otherwise, not a lot of new info, at least not for me. Not a real life changer.
]]> 14437746 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:27:19 -0700 <![CDATA[Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind]]> Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind
author: Michael Austin
name: Joe
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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This was a good way to sample some philosophy. I never took a course in philosophy in college. What I know about it I've gotten indirectly through conversation, pop culture and literary reference. This book is a collection of essays in which an aspect of running is paired with a philosopher or a branch of philosophy. As a result you learn some new stuff and you can immediately see how it applies to everyday life. Apparently, there's a lot of books like this with philosophy paired with an array of modern topics.
]]> 14437773 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:06:03 -0800 <![CDATA[ChiRunning]]> ChiRunning
author: Danny Dreyer
name: Joe
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 9751655 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:05:19 -0800 <![CDATA[Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, andResults]]> Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, andResults
author: Matt Fitzgerald
name: Joe
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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Pretty good book. Helpful stuff about form. I'll probably go back through it and try some of the core training exercizes.
]]> 9751637 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:06:52 -0800 <![CDATA[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life]]> Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
author: Barbara Kingsolver
name: Joe
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 5957659 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:32:09 -0700 <![CDATA[Upon This Rock : The Miracles of a Black Church]]> Upon This Rock : The Miracles of a Black Church
author: Samuel G. Freedman
name: Joe
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> 5957595 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:29:56 -0700 <![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]> Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
author: Elizabeth Gilbert
name: Joe
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
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]]> 5843963 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:30:40 -0700 <![CDATA[The Man in My Basement: A Novel]]> The Man in My Basement: A Novel
author: Walter Mosley
name: Joe
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> 5843894 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:29:18 -0700 <![CDATA[The Stand]]> The Stand
author: Stephen King
name: Joe
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1978
rating: 5
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]]> 5843885 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:29:10 -0700 <![CDATA[The Ice Storm: A Novel]]> The Ice Storm: A Novel
author: Rick Moody
name: Joe
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> 5843839 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:28:39 -0700 <![CDATA[The Power and the Glory]]> The Power and the Glory
author: Graham Greene
name: Joe
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> 5843818 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:28:12 -0700 <![CDATA[Late Innings]]> Late Innings
author: Roger Angell
name: Joe
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> 5843815 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:28:09 -0700 <![CDATA[The Summer Game (Bison Book)]]> The Summer Game (Bison Book)
author: Roger Angell
name: Joe
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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]]> 5843812 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:28:07 -0700 <![CDATA[Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion]]> Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
author: Roger Angell
name: Joe
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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]]> 5843772 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:27:07 -0700 <![CDATA[Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager]]> Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
author: Buzz Bissinger
name: Joe
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 5843769 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:27:04 -0700 <![CDATA[A Prayer for the City (Vintage)]]> A Prayer for the City (Vintage)
author: Buzz Bissinger
name: Joe
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 5843765 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:27:01 -0700 <![CDATA[Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream]]> Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
author: H.G. Bissinger
name: Joe
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> 5843749 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:26:42 -0700 <![CDATA[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]> A Short History of Nearly Everything
author: Bill Bryson
name: Joe
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 5843737 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:26:25 -0700 <![CDATA[Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley]]> Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
author: Peter Guralnick
name: Joe
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> 5843736 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:26:24 -0700 <![CDATA[Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley]]> Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
author: Peter Guralnick
name: Joe
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> 5843708 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:25:49 -0700 <![CDATA[The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood]]> The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
author: David Simon
name: Joe
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> 5843695 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:25:38 -0700 <![CDATA[Home Town]]> Home Town
author: Tracy Kidder
name: Joe
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> 5843664 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:25:04 -0700 <![CDATA[Underworld]]> Underworld
author: Don DeLillo
name: Joe
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> 5843653 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:24:48 -0700 <![CDATA[No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again; A Symphonic Novel]]> No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again; A Symphonic Novel
author: Edgardo Vega Yunque
name: Joe
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> 5843609 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:24:14 -0700 <![CDATA[Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction]]> Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
author: J.D. Salinger
name: Joe
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1963
rating: 5
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]]> 5843605 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:24:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Nine Stories]]> Nine Stories
author: J.D. Salinger
name: Joe
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> 5843603 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:24:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Franny and Zooey]]> Franny and Zooey
author: J.D. Salinger
name: Joe
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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]]> 5843597 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:24:08 -0700 <![CDATA[The Catcher in the Rye]]> The Catcher in the Rye
author: J.D. Salinger
name: Joe
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1951
rating: 5
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]]> 5843557 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:23:52 -0700 <![CDATA[Sometimes a Great Notion]]> Sometimes a Great Notion
author: Ken Kesey
name: Joe
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1964
rating: 5
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]]> 5843553 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:23:49 -0700 <![CDATA[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
author: Ken Kesey
name: Joe
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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]]> 5843520 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:23:21 -0700 <![CDATA[Pedagogy of the City]]> Pedagogy of the City
author: Paulo Freire
name: Joe
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> 5843515 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:23:17 -0700 <![CDATA[A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education]]> A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education
author: Ira Shor
name: Joe
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> 5843506 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:23:08 -0700 <![CDATA[Pedagogy of the Oppressed]]> Pedagogy of the Oppressed
author: Paulo Freire
name: Joe
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> 5843454 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:22:18 -0700 <![CDATA[Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem]]> Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
author: bell hooks
name: Joe
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> 5843437 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:21:58 -0700 <![CDATA[Salvation: Black People and Love]]> Salvation: Black People and Love
author: bell hooks
name: Joe
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> 5843423 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:21:39 -0700 <![CDATA[killing rage: Ending Racism]]> killing rage: Ending Racism
author: bell hooks
name: Joe
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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]]> 5843418 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:21:34 -0700 <![CDATA[Teaching to Transgress]]> Teaching to Transgress
author: bell hooks
name: Joe
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> 5843412 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:21:31 -0700 <![CDATA[All About Love: New Visions (Bell Hooks Love Trilogy)]]> All About Love: New Visions (Bell Hooks Love Trilogy)
author: bell hooks
name: Joe
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> 5843403 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:21:20 -0700 <![CDATA[We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity]]> We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
author: Tommie Shelby
name: Joe
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> 5843388 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:21:08 -0700 <![CDATA[The Souls of Black Folk (Enriched Classics)]]> The Souls of Black Folk (Enriched Classics)
author: W.E.B. DuBois
name: Joe
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> 5843297 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:19:41 -0700 <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley]]> The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
author: Malcolm X
name: Joe
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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]]> 5843266 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:19:14 -0700 <![CDATA[Hiroshima]]> Hiroshima
author: John Hersey
name: Joe
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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]]> 5843223 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:18:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Into the Wild]]> Into the Wild
author: Jon Krakauer
name: Joe
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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]]> 5843221 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:18:49 -0700 <![CDATA[Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster]]> Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
author: Jon Krakauer
name: Joe
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> 5843187 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:18:08 -0700 <![CDATA[In Cold Blood]]> In Cold Blood
author: Truman Capote
name: Joe
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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]]> 5843183 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:18:03 -0700 <![CDATA[Truman]]> Truman
author: David McCullough
name: Joe
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> 5843153 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:17:28 -0700 <![CDATA[Einstein: His Life and Universe]]> Einstein: His Life and Universe
author: Walter Isaacson
name: Joe
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 5843118 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:16:48 -0700 <![CDATA[Get a Life]]> Get a Life
author: Nadine Gordimer
name: Joe
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 5843083 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:16:26 -0700 <![CDATA[The Pickup]]> The Pickup
author: Nadine Gordimer
name: Joe
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 02/07
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]]> 5843008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:15:27 -0700 <![CDATA[Heat Lightning]]> Heat Lightning
author: L Cohen
name: Joe
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 02/04
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]]> 5842861 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:13:57 -0700 <![CDATA[Graceland ]]> Graceland
author: Chris Abani
name: Joe
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 06/04
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]]> 4560817 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:37:21 -0700 <![CDATA[Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World]]> Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
author: Tracy Kidder
name: Joe
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 04/04
date added: 08/14/07
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Very inspiring book.
]]> 4560660 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:35:45 -0700 <![CDATA[Cross-X]]> Cross-X
author: Joe Miller
name: Joe
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 10/06
date added: 08/14/07
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I wrote this book. So it would make sense that I'd like it.
]]> 4560525 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:33:33 -0700 <![CDATA[Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage)]]> Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, (Vintage)
author: Robert A. Caro
name: Joe
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 10/06
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Kick ass book.
]]> 4560477 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:32:14 -0700 <![CDATA[The Omnivore's Dilemma]]> The Omnivore's Dilemma
author: Michael Pollan
name: Joe
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 09/07
date added: 08/14/07
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