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For me to enjoy a book, it generally has to either be set in a different time period, a different culture, or both. Barring a very few exceptions, novels set in 21st century North America bore the living daylights out of me. I read to learn about things I could never experience myself; I don't have much interest in reading stories I could go out and live.]]> female Oxford, MS 08/2008 12/2009 2778055 Kurt Vonnegut 1069006 C.S. Lewis 4432 Jasper Fforde 10006 Mary Downing Hahn 24655 Sharon Kay Penman 3961 Alan Moore 26 439 419 true 5644184 read 1 true 3169580 currently-reading 19 true 3169579 to-read 267 false 5240902 fiction 133 false 5240903 non-fiction 81 false 3412346 read-for-school 79 false 3412301 biographies-and-memoirs 59 false 3498084 child-and-adolescent 58 false 3412538 scifi-fantasy 56 false 3412451 historical-fiction 55 false 3498144 read-more-than-once 44 false 3412495 humor 33 false 4244992 religious-religion 29 false 4429389 other-cultures 19 false 3925118 plays 19 false 3412404 psychology 16 false 3412430 couldnt-finish 13 false 4244965 graphic-novels 8 false 4245049 art 0 false 9081543 wishlist Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls, and Rent Boys: Prostitutes Writing on Life, Love, Work, Sex, and Money (Paperback) by David Henry Sterry]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81508613 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256071147s/6009778.jpg 1424908 MAP http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232767236p2/1424908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1424908-map Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:50:21 -0800 more...]]> Beneath a Marble Sky (Paperback) by John Shors]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81222986 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171292541s/94672.jpg 1424908 MAP http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232767236p2/1424908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1424908-map Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:14:48 -0800 To Dance with Kings: A Novel (Paperback) by Rosalind Laker]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80546063 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177010762s/673710.jpg 1424908 MAP http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232767236p2/1424908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1424908-map Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:57:15 -0800 more...]]> Mommie Dearest (Paperback) by Christina Crawford]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80080280 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232470739s/629202.jpg 1424908 MAP http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232767236p2/1424908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1424908-map Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:59:05 -0800 more...]]> A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback) by Bill Bryson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79586676 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166062678s/9791.jpg 1424908 MAP http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232767236p2/1424908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1424908-map Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:29:21 -0800
The book has some funny bits and writing, but only two or three time...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1063.Long_Good_Books_for_Voracious_Readers http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571691s/4667024.jpg 1424908 MAP http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232767236p2/1424908.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1424908-map Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:26:49 -0800