false 8 124 107 true 5676168 read 6 true 2605182 currently-reading 11 true 2605179 to-read 3 false 3207980 didn-t-finish---gave-up-on <![CDATA[Melanie added 'On The Jellicoe Road']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79329393 On The Jellicoe Road (Paperback) by Melina Marchetta
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]]> <![CDATA[Melanie is on page 29 of On The Jellicoe Road ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79329393 Melanie is on page 29 of 300 of On The Jellicoe Road ]]> <![CDATA[Melanie added 'Hard Love']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79329279 to: Hard Love (Paperback) by Ellen Wittlinger
]]> <![CDATA[Melanie added 'Blinking with Fists']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28925558 to: Blinking with Fists (Paperback) by Billy Corgan
I love Billy's work, I really do, but the poems in this collection are so disappointing, especially because they could've been so much better. A lot of great ideas, a lot of great sounds, a lot of great images, but the poems really need a good edit to make them stronger. In a poem everything needs to be tight because of brevity, and the weak parts really drag down the rest of the poem, over and over again.
I went to the poetry reading in Chicago, and one of these poems had a very powerful image, a short two line segment, that was cut from the poem before publication. Sadly.
Billy's incredibly gifted, but without the music to back them up, the words in these poems more often than not don't manage to stand on their own. I'm not sure how much input Billy got from an editor or other poets before submitting these poems for publication, but they strike me as rather early drafts of what could've been great poems. ]]> <![CDATA[Melanie added 'Need']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79156483 to: Need (Need, #1) by Carrie Jones
]]> <![CDATA[Melanie added 'Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78975019 Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer (Wormwood, vol. 1) by Ben Templesmith
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]]> <![CDATA[Melanie added 'The Forest of Hands and Teeth']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78974590 to: The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Paperback) by Carrie Ryan
]]> <![CDATA[Melanie added 'Mirall trencat']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77992700 Mirall trencat (Les Millors obres de la literatura catalana) by Mercè Rodoreda
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]]> <![CDATA[Melanie added 'Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77215129 to: Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel (Hardcover) by Joyce Carol Oates
]]> <![CDATA[Melanie is on page 6 of The Sister ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66847740 Melanie is on page 6 of 288 of The Sister ]]>