false 50 907 416 true 5654394 read 2 true 2570476 currently-reading 489 true 2570475 to-read 188 false 5073957 bought-it--better-read-it 113 false 5152676 to-buy--eventually 64 false 2659022 book-club-made-me-do-it 61 false 2659010 aww--childhood-nostalgia 53 false 2570603 favorites 49 false 5423140 young-adult 31 false 2580455 crap 20 false 2627521 vietnam 11 false 5561943 book-rape 9 false 3477711 loaned 8 false 4754786 graphic-novels 4 false 2799367 perpetually-reading 1 false 5539836 abandoned 0 false 8485634 wishlist 0 false 6897386 may-eventually-come-back-to-it <![CDATA[Amanda added 'New Moon']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23882478 to: New Moon (Twilight, #2) by Stephenie Meyer
bookshelves: young-adult
Always whining Bella . . . that's it--stick a fork in me, I'm done. No more, I say. It would be masochistic to continue to trudge my way through this series, which I only began at the insistent urging of students eager for me to love it as much as they do. Sure, it has inspired a whole generation of girls to read, but isn't that negated by the fact that it also teaches them to be winsome damsels in distress waiting for a beautiful, angsty vampire to come save the day while simultaneously sweeping them out of lives of mediocrity? I don't know. If you love Twilight, bully for you. However, I shall seek out my vampire fix elsewhere. ]]> <![CDATA[Amanda added 'Twilight']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23884676 to: Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer
bookshelves: young-adult
Romeo and Juliet with fangs. However, the great thing about Romeo and Juliet is that at least both of them die in the end. No such comfort awaits the Twilight reader--even from the first book you know that they're destined to live forever (or for at least three more long ass books). The road to hell is paved with Stephenie Meyer novels. ]]> <![CDATA[Amanda made a comment on Amanda's profile]]> http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1219253-amanda Amanda made a comment on Amanda's profile:

Dan wrote: "I find that book rape is particularly common around the holidays. Someone is in the act of forcing The Host on me as we speak."

Ugh, get thee behind me, Stephenie Meyer! If I had a dime for every Meyer related book report I've had to grade over the last three years, I'd have enough money to buy Dubai.

Yes, I don't know what it is about the holidays that make people who supposedly love or at least tolerate me decide to forcibly pawn off their pitiful reading tastes upon me. I open every gift with great trepidation . . . when will people learn that a Barnes and Noble gift card will suffice?

]]> <![CDATA[Amanda added 'Indigo Springs']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80765682 Indigo Springs (Paperback) by A.M. Dellamonica
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Amanda is on page 178 of The Things They Carr... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23884053 Amanda is on page 178 of 246 of The Things They Carried ]]> <![CDATA[Amanda added 'Under the Dome: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79823932 Under the Dome: A Novel (Hardcover) by Stephen King
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Amanda added 'The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79823714 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (The BuckShaw Chronicles, #1) by Alan Bradley
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Amanda added 'The Color of Magic']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29152549 The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1) by Terry Pratchett
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> <![CDATA[Amanda added 'Lifeblood']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79484384 Lifeblood (Paperback) by Werner A. Lind
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Amanda]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65907084 Amanda's review of The Last of the Mohicans (Oxford World's Classics)
by James Fenimore Cooper

I'm so glad to meet a fellow survivor! I still have a nervous tic whenever I see this book. ]]>