false 19 738 301 true 5655115 read 4 true 2110269 currently-reading 311 true 2110268 to-read 62 true 3597353 unfinished-reading 38 true 5105419 shelved-indefinitely 20 true 4681269 reference 2 true 3597836 next-to-read 186 false 3581618 i-own-it-i-should-read-it 40 false 4717832 spousal 28 false 3637906 books-i-gave-my-children 10 false 4706130 signed-by-author 0 false 7511302 wishlist <![CDATA[Marti added 'Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78827385 Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (Hardcover) by Ilan Stavans
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Marti is on page 104 of A Leader's Legacy ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75971140 Marti is on page 104 of 208 of A Leader's Legacy ]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'Of Bees and Mist']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78592191 Of Bees and Mist (Paperback) by Erick Setiawan
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'Pnin']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78586870 Pnin (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78586122 Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (Paperback) by Kevin Kelly
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78462893 Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (Paperback) by Sandor Ellix Katz
bookshelves: reference
]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78272690 Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory (Hardcover) by Roy Blount Jr.
bookshelves: to-read
"Blount (Long Time Leaving) is a contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly, a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! quiz show and a usage consultant to the American Heritage Dictionary. He displays his pleasure in words with his subtitle — 'The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; with Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory' — as he dishes up an alphabetical array of 'verbal reverberations,' weasel words and linguistic acrobatics from 'aardvark' to 'zoology' ('Pronounced zo-ology. Not zoo-ology. Look at the letters. Count the o's'). Along the way, he compares dictionaries, slings slang, digs for roots, posts ripostes and dotes on anecdotes. The format is nearly identical to Roy Copperud's still valuable but out-of-print A Dictionary of Usage and Style (1964). Blount's book is equally instructive and scholarly, but is also injected with a full dose of word play on steroids. Quotes, quips, euphemisms, rhymes and rhythms, literary references ('Lo-lee-ta') and puns: 'The lowest form of wit, it used to be said, but that was before Ann Coulter.' Throughout, the usage advice is sage and also fun, since the writer's own wild wit, while bent and Blount, is razor sharp." Publishers Weekly ]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'The Help']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71642946 The Help (Hardcover) by Kathryn Stockett
bookshelves: currently-reading, i-own-it-i-should-read-it
]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77824092 Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (Paperback) by Florence King
bookshelves: next-to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Marti added 'The Metamorphosis']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77607930 to: The Metamorphosis (Paperback) by Franz Kafka
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