<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	<user>
  <id>1049480</id>
  <name><![CDATA[J.A.]]></name>
  <user_name><![CDATA[]]></user_name>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a]]></link>
  <author>
  <id type="integer">936653</id>
  <name>J.A. Clemens</name>
</author>
  <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p3/1049480.jpg]]></image_url>
  <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  
    <about><![CDATA[]]></about>
    <age></age>
    <gender></gender>
    <location>Layton, UT</location>
    <website><![CDATA[http://jaclemens.wordpress.com]]></website>
    <joined>04/2008</joined>
    <last_active>12/2009</last_active>
    <interests><![CDATA[reading, writing, book buying, selling, collecting, reviewing, recommending, treasuring, etc.]]></interests>
    <favorite_books><![CDATA[listed on my top ten shelf]]></favorite_books>
    <favorite_authors>
	    
        <author>
  <id type="integer">3873</id>
  <name>Mikhail Bulgakov</name>
</author>

      
        <author>
  <id type="integer">2715</id>
  <name>Michael Chabon</name>
</author>

      
        <author>
  <id type="integer">8842</id>
  <name>Susanna Clarke</name>
</author>

      
        <author>
  <id type="integer">25205</id>
  <name>Gordon Dahlquist</name>
</author>

      
        <author>
  <id type="integer">5918</id>
  <name>Elizabeth Kostova</name>
</author>

      
        <author>
  <id type="integer">1069006</id>
  <name>C.S. Lewis</name>
</author>

      
	  </favorite_authors>
    
    <updates_rss_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/updates_rss/1049480?key=6f9f66c0c278e9cbdd110090eaf0266fc1f93ba0]]></updates_rss_url>
    <reviews_rss_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/1049480?key=6f9f66c0c278e9cbdd110090eaf0266fc1f93ba0&shelf=%23ALL%23]]></reviews_rss_url>
    <friends_count type="integer">22</friends_count>
    <reviews_count type="integer">357</reviews_count>
    <user_shelves type="array">
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">278</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">true</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">5669989</id>
    <name>read</name>
  </user_shelf>
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">1</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">true</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">2164716</id>
    <name>currently-reading</name>
  </user_shelf>
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">75</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">true</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">2164715</id>
    <name>to-read</name>
  </user_shelf>
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">3</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">true</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">4939628</id>
    <name>did-not-finish</name>
  </user_shelf>
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">36</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">false</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">5039458</id>
    <name>graphic-novels</name>
  </user_shelf>
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">30</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">false</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">4345454</id>
    <name>autographed</name>
  </user_shelf>
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">19</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">false</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">4784273</id>
    <name>arc</name>
  </user_shelf>
  <user_shelf>
    <book_count type="integer">10</book_count>
    <description nil="true"></description>
    <exclusive_flag type="boolean">false</exclusive_flag>
    <id type="integer">2475818</id>
    <name>top-ten</name>
  </user_shelf>
</user_shelves>

          <updates type="array">
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays">Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4339.David_Foster_Wallace">David Foster Wallace</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81686948</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:42:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/266485.Last_of_the_Breed">Last of the Breed (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/858.Louis_L_Amour">Louis L'Amour</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81646873</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173278400s/266485.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:26:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Reading <em>The Secret Speech</em> brought this one back to me.]]></body>
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6045456.The_Secret_Speech">The Secret Speech (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/981834.Tom_Rob_Smith">Tom Rob Smith</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45162913</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255578515s/6045456.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:05:55 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Historians of modern Russia know that shock therapy refers to the volatile economic reforms instituted by Boris Yeltsin in the late 90s, after the break up of the Soviet Union.  Forty years prior Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech to the 20th Soviet Congress detailing the atrocities committed by t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45162913">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531764.Professor_And_The_Madman">Professor And The Madman (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14053.Simon_Winchester">Simon Winchester</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72351743</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175573197s/531764.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:05:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="userquote">
    <action_text><![CDATA[added a quote]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/213417</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:02:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="userquote">
    <action_text><![CDATA[added a quote]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/213416</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:01:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21787.The_Princess_Bride">The Princess Bride  (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12521.William_Goldman">William Goldman</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79903434</link>
    <image_url>http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51244A5RWML._SL75_.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:18:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4395.The_Grapes_of_Wrath">The Grapes of Wrath (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/585.John_Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79903387</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255607820s/4395.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:17:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4954833.Brooklyn_A_Novel">Brooklyn: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1351903.Colm_T_ib_n">Colm Tóibín</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73748882</link>
    <image_url>http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iXaRvIu4L._SL75_.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:07:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Here we have another novel about New York City, also written by an acclaimed author of Irish origin, also about an immigrant trying to find her place in the world. <em>Brooklyn</em> by Colm Tóibín takes place long before 9/11 and I read it prior to reading <em>Netherland</em>, but I am deliberately posting my revie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73748882">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
  </update>  
      <update type="review">
    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615008.Netherland">Netherland (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/389474.Joseph_O_Neill">Joseph O'Neill</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45153523</link>
    <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793924s/2615008.jpg</image_url>
    <actor>
  <id type="integer">1049480</id>
  <name>J.A.</name>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1256929645p2/1049480.jpg</image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1049480-j-a</link>
</actor>

    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:39:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I don’t live in New York City. I don’t play cricket. Why then do I keep picking up books about the disorientation of living in post 9/11 New York (see <em>Chronic City</em>) and the civility of cricket (see <em>Psmith in the City</em>)? Joseph O’Neill came to Salt Lake City and signed copies of <em>Netherland</em> at Wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45153523">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
  </update>  
  </updates>
      
</user>

</GoodreadsResponse>