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]]> 49 male Houston, TX 05/2008 12/2009 37 384 363 true 5666670 read 2 true 2483032 currently-reading 19 true 2483031 to-read 110 false 2523697 on-the-shadow-side 76 false 2492528 fiction 60 false 2579996 american-studies 55 false 2484749 education 51 false 2483522 leadership-development 48 false 2484757 autobiography 46 false 2551355 matters-of-faith 42 false 2523704 group-dynamics 39 false 2492541 character-education 37 false 2519985 biography 32 false 2492575 sports 28 false 2579780 parenting 21 false 2492576 coaching 14 false 2515249 boston 4 false 2523711 lit-crit 2 false 2763338 poetry Honor and Duty (Mass Market Paperback) by Gus Lee]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23073243 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223634693s/860845.jpg 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:43:22 -0700 The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Hardcover) by Daniel J. Siegel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28801862 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174451230s/403026.jpg 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Sat, 02 May 2009 06:23:18 -0700 Catch-22 (Paperback) by Joseph Heller]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23014993 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242256344s/168668.jpg 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:49:16 -0700 The Given Day: A Novel (Hardcover) by Dennis Lehane]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41079015 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255734804s/2830067.jpg 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:27:28 -0800 Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found (Hardcover) by Marie Brenner]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22986205 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BUuaamb%2BL._SL75_.jpg 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:46:39 -0700 keeper!!
It's been getting some awesome reviews, so I came at it w/ pretty high hopes. Happily, A's & O's lived up to--even exceeded--all this hype.

Brenner is a professional journalist. So her prose can be powerfully clear, succinct, concise. But what's especially ...more...]]> All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Michael Patrick MacDonald]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23115084 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171558335s/105687.jpg 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Wed, 28 May 2008 07:05:38 -0700 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Paperback) by J. Anthony Lukas]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23115063 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71XT01G0WEL._SL75_.gif 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Wed, 28 May 2008 07:05:21 -0700 An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us (Paperback) by James Carroll]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23115032 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512EDHFNTGL._SL75_.jpg 1187470 Mike http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211821541p2/1187470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1187470-mike Wed, 28 May 2008 07:04:48 -0700