false 37 709 524 true 5630680 read 2 true 243865 currently-reading 183 true 243864 to-read 128 false 6763965 2009 74 false 245496 generalfiction 73 false 6763967 2008 71 false 245551 fantasy 69 false 245527 ya-fiction 59 false 245419 chicklit 55 false 245426 mystery 52 false 2720888 funny 47 false 245445 historicalfiction 45 false 245428 action 30 false 245543 classic 30 false 5265950 urban-fantasy 27 false 245526 nonfiction 26 false 3644264 dystopia 20 false 3584288 didnt-finish 20 false 245491 favorites 20 false 245575 curl-up-with 19 false 245483 southernfiction 19 false 245448 memoir 16 false 3296641 social-commentary 14 false 245439 sci-fi 10 false 1537015 scary 10 false 3780478 childrens 10 false 5265910 post-apocalyptic 9 false 5575766 book-club 9 false 2749910 parenting 8 false 245438 politics 8 false 2720984 gothic 7 false 723089 shortstories 6 false 1062620 religious 6 false 5588509 skimmed 5 false 245484 cooking 4 false 3946340 on-the-backburner 3 false 6007525 graphic-novel 3 false 4569726 magical-realism 2 false 2691921 style 2 false 245455 history 1 false 3298835 plays 1 false 4406377 romance <![CDATA[Mrs N added 'Catch-22']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79089343 Catch-22 (Paperback) by Joseph Heller
bookshelves: to-read
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bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Mrs N is on page 126 of The Lacuna: A Novel ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75961738 Mrs N is on page 126 of 464 of The Lacuna: A Novel ]]> <![CDATA[Mrs N added 'That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73348362 to: That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between (Paperback) by Victoria Beckham
bookshelves: 2009, skimmed, style
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bookshelves: to-read
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bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> <![CDATA[Mrs N added 'Leviathan']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78579754 to: Leviathan (Hardcover) by Scott Westerfeld
bookshelves: 2009, fantasy, ya-fiction
I am quite tired of historical fiction (usually YA) in which the heroine absolutely hates being female and being forced to wear skirts and corsets and she is simply dying to run around in pants and swear and be a boy and a sailor/soldier/insert physically intense and usually dangerous male role here. I strongly believe that is anachronistic in almost every case. Modern authors think, "How dreadful to be polite and wear a corset! She must want to be a boy!" That is sexist and frankly more than a little Freudian. Apparently authors are the only people still alive who believe that each woman desires a unit of her very own. For heaven's sake. I think it is lazy writing and a misplaced desire to have a female main character at any cost. Westerfeld, next time just make the main characters both male and spare me the anti-feminine crap.

However, even if both main characters had been male, I would still only give this book two stars. There are pages and pages of detailed descriptions of war machines and animal hybrids. Bo-ring. Twelve-to-fourteen-year-old boys should love this book. ]]> <![CDATA[Mrs N added 'The Maze Runner']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70429140 to: The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1) by James Dashner
bookshelves: 2009, post-apocalyptic, ya-fiction
Great book. Do not read yet if you hate waiting for the next book in a series to come out! ]]> <![CDATA[New Fanship update]]> <![CDATA[Mrs N added 'Neverwhere: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77133731 to: Neverwhere: A Novel (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman
bookshelves: 2009, fantasy, favorites
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