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author: Edith Pattou
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/20/08
shelves: iamapreteenboy
review:

]]> 17941801 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:26:55 -0700
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1964
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 03/17/08
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review:

]]> 17941797 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:26:52 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1969
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 03/17/08
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]]> 13764334 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:07:29 -0800
author: Jennifer Finney Boylan
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 01/27/08
shelves: learnsomething
review:

]]> 7334157 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:01:09 -0800
author: Gregory Maguire
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.30
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 12/30/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 6976080 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:00:44 -0800
author: Christopher Paolini
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 01/08
date added: 12/30/07
shelves: iamapreteenboy
review:

]]> 5794273 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:18:30 -0800
author: Lynda Barry
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2000
rating: 2
read at: 04/08
date added: 12/19/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 10716964 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:17:59 -0800
author: Markus Zusak
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 01/08
date added: 12/19/07
shelves: emo, fiction, historicalpoliticalfiction
review:

]]> 7921184 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:02:25 -0700
author: Cornelia Funke
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 12/07
date added: 10/18/07
shelves: iamapreteenboy
review:

]]> 7921173 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:52 -0700
author: Michelle Paver
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 10/18/07
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review:

]]> 6940205 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:00:52 -0700
author: Lene Kaaberbol
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2007
rating: 2
read at: 10/07
date added: 10/18/07
shelves: ohgodmyeyes
review:

]]> 5768328 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:45:22 -0700
I can't recommend this book highly enough, all I can say is please read it. I want to start reading it again immediately, but it's already due back at the library.]]>
author: Michael Pollan
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 10/07
date added: 10/18/07
shelves: americaisfucked, betterthanacupcake, learnsomething
review:
This book makes me want to go back and give 4 stars to every book I gave 5 stars to. Seriously. This book changed my life. As many know, I'm already a pretty ethical eater, but this book taught me so much and really shifted my view on our food industry and the food i eat. Unlike other books I've read on the subject, I didn't feel like I knew most of it already, or that so much of it was there for shock value (even though the shocking stuff is true as well). I also didn't feel like the author had his own agenda to promote -- it felt true and balanced and pragmatic. He's not vegan, not even vegetarian, not anything but a guy with a question -- where does our food come from and what's the ecological implication of each food/meal?

I can't recommend this book highly enough, all I can say is please read it. I want to start reading it again immediately, but it's already due back at the library.
]]> 6940164 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:08:33 -0700 a-ha moment. It was abrupt and startling and I felt a little assaulted with so much plot so late in a book that had been lacking it up until then. You did get a pay-off (kind of) if you stuck it out, but sticking it out was hard for me. His portrayal of the highschool mentality was right-on, which may have been a problem, unfortunately -- having lived through it once (minus the constant blowjobs), I'd rather it be within a more sophisticated framework (plot, character, tone) when i read about it (and remember, I'm all about reading YA books).]]>
author: Frank Portman
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at: 10/07
date added: 10/05/07
shelves: fiction, iamapreteenboy
review:
Man, I really wanted to like this book, it came highly recommended. However, the more I tried, the more I failed. Or maybe the author (sorry MrTX) failed. It strikes me that he had these really(?) great ideas but when it came to actually working them out on paper, they just didn't work. Or perhaps it's that his really great ideas didn't actually poke above the grass of teenage tedium until the final chapter or two, when you finally get the a-ha moment. It was abrupt and startling and I felt a little assaulted with so much plot so late in a book that had been lacking it up until then. You did get a pay-off (kind of) if you stuck it out, but sticking it out was hard for me. His portrayal of the highschool mentality was right-on, which may have been a problem, unfortunately -- having lived through it once (minus the constant blowjobs), I'd rather it be within a more sophisticated framework (plot, character, tone) when i read about it (and remember, I'm all about reading YA books).
]]> 7333802 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:49:22 -0700
author: Cornelia Funke
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 12/07
date added: 10/05/07
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]]> 6882430 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:47:40 -0700
author: Cornelia Funke
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 10/07
date added: 10/05/07
shelves: fiction, iamapreteenboy
review:
A bit predictable, in that within the first 2 chapters I knew the storyline, though the storyline is far different than the other fantasy books I've been reading lately, which is saying a lot .I really like Funke's warm writing and fantasy-astic stories.
]]> 5868422 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:01:39 -0700
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/28/07
shelves: fiction, iamapreteenboy
review:
Another to add to my long list of books for my son to read in a few years, because that's why I read these fantasy novels, right? It's all research. I don't get swept up, excited, gleeful...Okay, I really do, and this book is wonderful. I can't wait to read the rest of the series. I've always wished there were giant talking cockroaches living in the earth and now I know there are, and their friendly. But not the rats, the rats are assholes.
]]> 5868278 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:56:36 -0700 wicked is. It was also a bit hard for me to get into it because I knew the ending already (having read Jane eyre) and her ending is not pretty. Sometimes this works for stories -- like star wars, right? knowing the ending made the first ones better than they were, imo, like you were in on it somehow -- but in this story it seemed to preempt fully enjoying the story and characters. I think i would have enjoyed the book better if I didn't know until the end that she was Rochester's mad woman in the attic. yes, to get to the end and figure it out would have made this book more of a success for me.]]>
author: Jean Rhys
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1966
rating: 3
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/28/07
shelves: fiction
review:
The story of the mad woman in the attic from jane eyre. A lovely story with gorgeous settings and lyrical language. however, being a lover of jane eyre, it was a little hard to wrap my head around, another side of the same story but not in the same way wicked is. It was also a bit hard for me to get into it because I knew the ending already (having read Jane eyre) and her ending is not pretty. Sometimes this works for stories -- like star wars, right? knowing the ending made the first ones better than they were, imo, like you were in on it somehow -- but in this story it seemed to preempt fully enjoying the story and characters. I think i would have enjoyed the book better if I didn't know until the end that she was Rochester's mad woman in the attic. yes, to get to the end and figure it out would have made this book more of a success for me.
]]> 6882587 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:58:05 -0700
author: Cornelia Funke
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 09/27/07
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]]> 4767254 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:27:23 -0700
author: Zadie Smith
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 06/07
date added: 09/16/07
shelves: fiction
review:
The first chapter of this book almost lost me. By the middle I was glad i stuck it out -- parts of it are smart and hilarious. However, by the end, I was overwhelmed and annoyed. It's a bit like Smith had too many good ideas and decided to throw them all in one book. Too much, too much, too much. I'm still giving it 5 stars because the middle section was so grand, just stop reading when you get to any mention of a super-mouse.
]]> 6272853 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:18:20 -0700
author: Lene Kaaberbol
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/16/07
shelves: fiction, iamapreteenboy
review:

]]> 5794301 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:01:39 -0700
author: Vickie Nam
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2001
rating: 2
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/14/07
shelves: americaisfucked, nonfiction
review:
so perhaps I'm just not in essay-mode lately, but this book just didn't buzz for me at all. It's a collection of essays by young asian american women about growing up as such in the american landscape. There's only so far and deep a 15-19 year old can go in 1-3 pages so, for me, each essay, no matter how good, seemed a bit shallow and a bit repetitive (of the other essays in the book). I would have enjoyed it more if there were a greater range of ages, and lengths. There were s few standouts, but even those get lost in a book all about the same thing.
]]> 5762378 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:55:19 -0700
author: Jonathan Stroud
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2003
rating: 0
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/14/07
shelves: iamapreteenboy
review:
blah.
]]> 5982015 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:34:39 -0700
author: Jonathan Safran Foer
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 12/07
date added: 09/11/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 5762207 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:56:48 -0700
author: Eric Schlosser
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/06/07
shelves: learnsomething, nonfiction
review:

]]> 5736829 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:07:23 -0700
author: Grace Llewellyn
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1991
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 09/05/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 5736820 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:07:17 -0700
author: Michael Azerrad
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 09/05/07
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review:

]]> 5523131 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:06:14 -0700
author: David Sedaris
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/05/07
shelves: nonfiction
review:
Okay, I'm sold. David Sedaris is hilarious. I didn't even have to do my titmouse impersonation out loud this time, I just heard him in my head. Gems, some of these. Six to eight black men cracked me up, twice.
]]> 5523113 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:03:35 -0700
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author: Angie Sage
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/05/07
shelves: fiction, iamapreteenboy
review:
what can I say? it's clear to all involved that I'm a preteen-magic-obsessed-fangirl, right? I go through these books (this genre, not so much this series) like it's vegan cupcake batter. Even when they're not great, they're good. This book was pretty good, slightly innovative, perhaps a bit predictable, but fun and of couse, can be read in 2 days. Typical good battles evil, good mostly triumphs but not quite...to be continued in books 2-99.


]]> 5119815 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:49:26 -0700 read about his life. However, after I read a few aloud to bill, doing my best high-pitched titmouse David Sedaris impression, I loved this book. So funny. Jesus Shaves and <You can't Kill the Rooster</i> stick in my mind and make me smile even now -- 'cause you can't kill the motherfucking rooster, bitch'.]]>
author: David Sedaris
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/04/07
shelves: nonfiction
review:
my first david sedaris book. After years of listening to him talk about his life, it felt foreign to read about his life. However, after I read a few aloud to bill, doing my best high-pitched titmouse David Sedaris impression, I loved this book. So funny. Jesus Shaves and <You can't Kill the Rooster</i> stick in my mind and make me smile even now -- 'cause you can't kill the motherfucking rooster, bitch'.
]]> 5201791 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:17:26 -0700
author: Louisa May Alcott
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 08/27/07
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review:

]]> 5201593 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:13:44 -0700
author: Isa Chandra Moskowitz
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.68
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/27/07
shelves: vegandeliciousness
review:
cupcakes are the new black, yo. this book is the bible of cupcake making, i've got a new god!
]]> 5039731 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:56:54 -0700
author: Jonathan Stroud
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/27/07
shelves: fiction, iamapreteenboy
review:
The human world and the demon world are at odds, one enslaved by the other, that's the premise of this entire series. It's a good premise, each book relies on it while developing it's own distinct storyline. In many ways it's similar to other books in this genre (the teenage magical/wizardy genre that I'm fast becoming an expert in) -- interesting, entertaining stories with social/political commentary if you're willing to look beyond the surface-y stuff. The one striking different is that through the series the hero becomes less of a hero and more of an asshole. By the second book he's barely a hero at all, more of unlikable main character. By the third book I was rooting as much for his death as I was rooting for his turnaround, (spoiler alert)also unlike the other series', I got both.
]]> 4765899 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:54:39 -0700 Kite Runner, read this book. A white female journalist lives with a family in Kabul for a year, this is a novelization of the experience. The stories of the women are tragic, making you grind your teeth and shake your fist at the men. The stories of the men are equally tragic and blame becomes less clear cut. Eye opening. ]]>
author: Asne Seierstad
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 06/07
date added: 08/25/07
shelves: crycrycry, historicalpoliticalfiction, learnsomething, nonfiction, seriousshit
review:
If you liked Kite Runner, read this book. A white female journalist lives with a family in Kabul for a year, this is a novelization of the experience. The stories of the women are tragic, making you grind your teeth and shake your fist at the men. The stories of the men are equally tragic and blame becomes less clear cut. Eye opening.
]]> 4910815 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:47:27 -0700
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1847
rating: 5
read at: 01/03
date added: 08/25/07
shelves: emo, fiction
review:
it took a blanket recommendation from blake schwarzenbach to get me to crack this book, once in, i didn't put it down for 3 hours. I'm still lamenting the fact that I worked my way through this genre so quickly, no more to read, oh well, back to teen movies.
]]> 5039591 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:41:29 -0700 because of that. It should be read, if you like Sci-fi, because it's really good, well written, and thought provoking. I'd read blood child, the opening story, before, but didn't mind the reread. I even enjoyed reading the short explanations by the author that followed each story, interesting while not too this is what it means.]]>
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/25/07
shelves: sciencefiction
review:
Great. One of the only (the only?) african american women writing science fiction, but it's good (and should be read) just because of that. It should be read, if you like Sci-fi, because it's really good, well written, and thought provoking. I'd read blood child, the opening story, before, but didn't mind the reread. I even enjoyed reading the short explanations by the author that followed each story, interesting while not too this is what it means.
]]> 5119844 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:40:44 -0700
author: Inga Muscio
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 08/25/07
shelves:
review:
i'm reading this under duress.
]]> 5039722 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:11:22 -0700
author: Jonathan Stroud
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 5039720 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:11:17 -0700
author: Jonathan Stroud
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 5039629 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:08:54 -0700
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1965
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 5038932 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:51:31 -0700
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 0
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 5038922 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:51:02 -0700
author: Stephen King
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1974
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 5038175 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:38:16 -0700
I once had a friend who thought that Liz Phair song where she chants (ironically) in the background about all the things she wants to do to (you), was sexy. Really it's depressing and sad, but he found it sexy, which was also kind of depressing and sad. I could see the same thing happening with this book, some sad and depressing suburbanite thinking it's cool and sexy and that maybe they should do some crack and take little Marys barbie for a spin. Ick.]]>
author: A.M. Homes
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 02/07
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: fiction
review:
What do you rate a book that is so well written in it's depressingness that it makes you feel like shit. Yes, this book is depressing, it's a bit lynchian in the sense that it pulls back the veil of modern suburbia to reveal the ugly, sad armpit that it is.

I once had a friend who thought that Liz Phair song where she chants (ironically) in the background about all the things she wants to do to (you), was sexy. Really it's depressing and sad, but he found it sexy, which was also kind of depressing and sad. I could see the same thing happening with this book, some sad and depressing suburbanite thinking it's cool and sexy and that maybe they should do some crack and take little Marys barbie for a spin. Ick.
]]> 5037277 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:26:17 -0700
author: Steven D. Levitt
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: americaisfucked, economics, nonfiction
review:
I wanted to love this book, instead, I just liked it. It's a bit like reading 200 pages of stream of conscious writing from a stoned economist. Lot of the bit and pieces are truly intriguing, illuminating, shocking even. However, overall it's a bit surface-y, I mean, I (a mother of a 5 year old and a 6 month old) shouldn't be able to read a 200 page book on economics in 2 days and not have any questions. Perhaps that's the point though, it's a jumping off point, a call for people to examine things differently, to look beyond the obvious connections. Plus, what other economics book is owned by 7500 non-economic majors? I should give it an extra star just for accomplishing that!
]]> 5037054 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:04:30 -0700
author: Frank McCourt
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 4835505 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:59:11 -0700
author: Yukio Mishima
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1966
rating: 5
read at: 01/97
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: fiction, historicalpoliticalfiction
review:
A quick, gut-punching story about tradition, obligation, and honor. Read this in an hour and then realize when your partner asks you to do the dishes, clip his toenails, host a dinner, or spank his ass, your getting off easy.
]]> 4835476 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:54:12 -0700
author: Eoin Colfer
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 03/07
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: fiction, iamapreteenboy
review:
I'm such a sucker for for these magical/fantasy books about teenagers. Artemis is a genius who wavers between good and evil, clashes constantly with the magical underworld, and makes me smile.
]]> 4765459 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:39:34 -0700
If it helps, by the time you get half way through the book you shouldn't have to look at the family tree at the front of the book anymore.]]>
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1967
rating: 5
read at: 01/02
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: betterthanacupcake, fiction, historicalpoliticalfiction
review:
This was the first book I'd ever read where the end was as good as the beginning and middle, that's to say -- excellent. A circular story of a family through the generations, through the banana trees, through the political turmoil. Magical realism at it's best.

If it helps, by the time you get half way through the book you shouldn't have to look at the family tree at the front of the book anymore.
]]> 4835687 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:19:20 -0700 OG in prison. At the very least it made me want to incorporate into my daily speech sayings like --
<i>I'm gonna bust your grape; I'm gonna squish your tomato; you got nothing comin'; do me a solid.]]>
author: Jimmy A. Lerner
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 03/06
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: learnsomething, nonfiction
review:
Entertaining and easy to read while at the same time being gory and causing me to read between fingers splayed. A basic memoir of a middle aged man who commits murder and becomes an OG in prison. At the very least it made me want to incorporate into my daily speech sayings like --
<i>I'm gonna bust your grape; I'm gonna squish your tomato; you got nothing comin'; do me a solid.
]]> 4765399 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:57:08 -0700 tame, I-like-human tigers. Read it! Yes, there's some gore.]]>
author: Yann Martel
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 08/23/07
shelves: betterthanacupcake, learnsomething, seriousshit
review:
Amazing. This book has the ever so rare combination of being a memoir and being well-written. The story is amazing. Stunning. Almost unbelievable. You'll tell your friends, you won't be able to help it. The story of a boy trapped on a lifeboat with a freaking tiger! Yes, a tiger, and not one of those tame, I-like-human tigers. Read it! Yes, there's some gore.
]]> 4891646 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:16:32 -0700
author: Arundhati Roy
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 03/07
date added: 08/22/07
shelves: crycrycry, fiction
review:
Amazing language, so thick and rich, like walking through the rain forest -- green and fertile. Each word is perfect, each sentence lovely, each paragraph deserves to be read aloud, the book in total is beautiful in it's slow build to ugliness. Worth the time, though towards the end there are parts that will break you heart and leave it that way.
]]> 4832574 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:11:35 -0700
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.64
book published: 1937
rating: 5
read at: 12/06
date added: 08/22/07
shelves: betterthanacupcake, fiction
review:
I had no idea I would love this book so much. We read it aloud with my 5 year old and it was wonderful. Full of adventure and excitement, danger and peril, but also warmth and love. Like a cup of tea in front of the fire, that's how this book makes me feel. Lovely.
]]> 4838458 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:09:14 -0700 these I mean austin, the brontes). Love them. I read this book for the first time a few months ago and was so glad to have not yet exhausted this genre. though now, i think i have. ]]>
author: Jane Austen
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1813
rating: 4
read at: 01/07
date added: 08/22/07
shelves: emo, fiction
review:
I'm such a sucker for pride, and I love me some prejudice. No, really. I love all of these books (by these I mean austin, the brontes). Love them. I read this book for the first time a few months ago and was so glad to have not yet exhausted this genre. though now, i think i have.
]]> 4832570 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:03:48 -0700
author: Dorothy Allison
name: Jacey
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 01/04
date added: 08/22/07
shelves: crycrycry, fiction, seriousshit
review:
harsh. true. touching. A hard book to read if you have kids or ever were a kid. If this book doesn't make you angry and sad, you're an asshole.
]]> 4767351 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:30:28 -0700
author: Zadie Smith
name: Jacey
average rating: 3.11
book published: 2002
rating: 2
read at: 07/07
date added: 08/22/07
shelves: fiction, ohgodmyeyes
review:
It's such a shame when an author starts out so well and then crashes and burns. I loved White Teeth, this one, not so much. In fact, not at all. The story wasn't as compelling, the characters seemed forced and one-dimensional, and while parts of it were funny, the over all tone lacked the warmth and humor of her first book. Autograph man? more like the poopagraph man. heh.
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