false 39 509 439 true 5882630 read 3 true 230299 currently-reading 67 true 230298 to-read 83 false 242429 autobio-real-and-fictionalized 42 false 272099 comic-books 33 false 262406 when-i-was-little 30 false 240903 very-favorites 20 false 245337 sad-people-wandering-perhaps-drunk 12 false 256256 food-and-drink-mostly-food 11 false 272017 ow-my-prostate 5 false 1195528 health 5 false 1195538 eh--maybe-later 1 false 230309 currently-rereading 0 false 352064 on-deck <![CDATA[Karen added 'Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1877810 to: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (Paperback) by Angela Carter
bookshelves: currently-reading, currently-rereading
]]> <![CDATA[Karen added 'Wise Children']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78203951 to: Wise Children (Paperback) by Angela Carter
]]> <![CDATA[Karen added 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77545839 The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback) by Muriel Barbery
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Karen added 'No Country for Old Men']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77194508 to: No Country for Old Men (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy
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questions answered: 1625
correct: 1097 (67.5%)
skipped: 164
best streak: 20
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]]> <![CDATA[Karen added 'Cat's Cradle']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77194395 to: Cat's Cradle (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut
It's the year of re-reading Vonnegut, I guess. This has held up better for me than old fav God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater...maybe because I still love the idea of a karass? ]]> <![CDATA[Karen added 'The Girl Who Played with Fire']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74956203 The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) by Stieg Larsson
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Karen added 'McSweeney's Issue 23']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74955914 to: McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Dave Eggers
Great cover, embroidery-centric art work. Fav stories:

Black Hoodie Solution - Roddy Doyle
Girls in Bad Weather - Ann Beattie
Bride - Deb Olin Unferth
I'm the Boss So Do What I Say - Caren Beilin
]]> <![CDATA[Karen added 'The Intuitionist']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1651850 to: The Intuitionist (Paperback) by Colson Whitehead
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