false 21 91 78 true 5629633 read 2 true 3495460 currently-reading 11 true 3495459 to-read 28 false 3495623 2-pg 18 false 4532269 bartlett-2nd-ward-book-club 14 false 3497832 0-i-cannot-remember-if-this-is-offe 14 false 3495624 3-pg13 13 false 3495616 1-g 7 false 5583444 just-couldn-t-finish 7 false 3495622 4-r http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78335342 The Maker's Diet (Paperback) by Jordan Rubin
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78335323 Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34301747 to: Lord of the Flies (Paperback) by William Golding
bookshelves: 4-r
I read this because it was a classic (to be more specific, I read it because it was on the library shelf next to where The Princess Bride should have been). Interesting, lots to think about, occasionally horrifying and gross. I really enjoyed reading the short essay on symbolism that was printed at the end of the book. It helped me think about the book better. Cause, you know, when you read the book at 3 a.m. with a baby on your lap, you don't always catch all the subtleties. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78334538 to: The Princess Bride (Paperback) by William Goldman
bookshelves: 2-pg, bartlett-2nd-ward-book-club
Hilarious. I can't believe I've never read this before. I laughed out loud a few times. I also really enjoyed hearing the back stories to the characters that I already loved from the movie. The format (pretending to be abridging a previous work) was clever and added to the humor. I was pleased to discover that he was not actually talking about his son so rudely (he had two daughters, no sons). ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78334431 to: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Paperback) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
bookshelves: 2-pg, bartlett-2nd-ward-book-club
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75723405 to: The Martian Chronicles (Grand Master Edition) by Ray Bradbury
Julia picked this book out for me at the library and I just let it sit on my end table for a week or two before I ever picked it up. I ended up really liking it. It's set in the future (well, actually it's set in the present, but it was the future when he wrote it--kind of like the Jetsons was supposed to be set in the year 2000) when Earth is able to send rockets to Mars and inhabit it. It has a lot of points to ponder and not just for the hypothetical situation of actually being able to live on another planet. Because of the structure of the book (little stories spread out over stretches of years and not always using the same characters) there is not much depth to the characters, but there was so much else going on in the book that I didn't mind. It was interesting to see how ridiculously far off Bradbury was on where we would be technologically by now (he came up with houses that run themselves and astonishingly lifelike robots, but didn't think of cell phones or the internet, for instance).

For my readers who sensor their books, I would guess this one averaged about 1 murder per 10-20 pages. They were not particularly graphic though, so they really weren't unsettling to me (except the part involving the character who was a big Edgar Allan Poe fan, but I can't say much more about that without having to put a spoiler tag on this). ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73780595 Keri's review of Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
by Glenn Beck

That makes me smile. I never know whether anyone bothers to read what I write. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73780595 Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine (Paperback) by Glenn Beck
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72954675 Ashley's review of Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
by Glenn Beck

What if Glenn Beck annoys me? Will I still like reading it? ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69032199 to: Inkdeath (Inkheart, #3) by Cornelia Funke
bookshelves: 2-pg
Each book in this trilogy was less engaging than the last. I would have only given this two stars, but there were about 200 pages that captured the same excitement of the other books. It had a good ending, but all the same I kind of wish I would have just stopped after the first book. I almost didn't finish this one. ]]>