false3212211true5792015read1true3080160currently-reading0true3080159to-read53false4514361caldecott-winners-that-i-own0false4514459newberry-winners-i-own0false4672784picture-books-that-are-worthy
<![CDATA[new comment from Marie]]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79463012
Marie's review of
Second Glance byJodi Picoult
I didn't realize this was your first. I have a while pile of hers that I am working on slowly. I don't want to to go too fast- or otherwise it will all be over too soon.
]]>
<![CDATA[Marie added 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80498076
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Paperback)
byPeter Hedges bookshelves: currently-reading
]]>
<![CDATA[Marie added 'Second Glance']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79463012
to: Second Glance (Paperback)byJodi Picoult
As much as Picoult is a storyteller...she is also very good at writing history. She was able to intertwine so many important subjects into this book- that I had to remind myself that I was really only reading one novel and not twelve short stories.
AHHH...This book was so good with so many twists and turns. There are so many characters in this book that I had a difficult time keeping up--but eventually they all intertwine for a purpose.
It was eerie, scandalish, poetic, exaggerated, and right on the mark at the same time--- very very sad at times, also alarming because Picoult points out that History does indeed repeat itself no matter how much we want to believe that we learn from history. I especially love to read her acknowledgments and notes at the end of her writing- because she has a way of explaining or pulling together things that are happening in the real world to what happened in the book.
Bravo Jodi- you got me again.
My favorite passage:
At some time or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thing humans had in common....trapped in the whirlpool of what might have been, you might not be able to drag yourself out- but you could be saved by someone else who reached in.....Heroes didn't leap from tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand, they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
]]>
<![CDATA[Marie added 'The Song Is You: A Novel']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78907033
The Song Is You: A Novel (Hardcover)
byArthur Phillips
30 pages in and I put it down
felt like it was going to whine a lot.
maybe ill give it another try later
]]>
<![CDATA[Marie Mengel installed the Goodreads Facebook Application]]>
http://apps.facebook.com/good_reads/
check it out »
]]>
<![CDATA[Marie recommended the book
Shooting the Moon to
Kristen]]>
http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/679677
Marie
recommended the book
Shooting the Moon
to Kristen
I swear this was too much like a book I read before. Predictable but a bit addictive at moments.
]]>
<![CDATA[Marie added 'Bright Lights, Big City']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76654754
to: Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)byJay McInerney
although it was a short book- it didn't grab my attention or keep me hooked. A bit depressing, which I knew going into it; however, it was one of those I felt I needed to read in my lifetime.