false 14 383 282 true 5746916 read 1 true 329703 currently-reading 100 true 329702 to-read 104 false 5604149 childrens-ya 54 false 5604192 school-reads 43 false 5495697 fall-2009 27 false 5588730 non-fiction 6 false 5398633 sunday-reads 0 false 7898071 wishlist http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64426695 to: Whirligig (Mass Market Paperback) by Paul Fleischman
bookshelves: childrens-ya, fall-2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64426450 to: Silent Spring (Paperback) by Rachel Carson
bookshelves: fall-2009
I know this is the seminal text of the environmental movement, and it brings up some great points, but overall it doesn't do much for me. I felt like I could read the first two paragraphs of each chapter and understand perfectly what her message was. Carson uses a LOT of examples and statistics which just make this boring. Maybe I just wish she would spend more time outlining a plan to clean up the environment... I feel like so much of the book is based on what's wrong and then there's one chapter about how we can fix it... and it doesn't even go into that much detail! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64426731 to: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer
bookshelves: fall-2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64427184 to: The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Paperback) by Norman Mailer
bookshelves: fall-2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20790268 to: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Paperback) by Mark Haddon
bookshelves: childrens-ya, fall-2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76594447 to: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Hardcover) by Art Spiegelman
bookshelves: childrens-ya, fall-2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64426926 to: Godless (Paperback) by Pete Hautman
bookshelves: childrens-ya, fall-2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76527305 to: The Whole Sky Full of Stars (Hardcover) by Rene Saldana Jr
bookshelves: childrens-ya, fall-2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76409824 to: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Ranch Wife (Hardcover) by Ree Drummond
This cookbook is like no other in my cupboard... which is both a good thing and a bad thing. I've only recently started reading her blog recently, and knowing that she has a blog, I'm a little disappointed at how few recipes are in the book. She had soo many recipes w/ pictures taken at her disposal, so I expected more recipes (especially considering how big the book is). So that's the bad, but there is good! I love having step-by-step instructions for each of the recipes. And I love knowing that none of the pictures were taken by a professional photographer and that the food wasn't artistically enhanced by someone. Ree Drummond took all the pictures and made all the food, so it's possible for an actual human being to make the food look the way she does!
I also like the set-up, having the different recipes organized by what meal you would typically eat it at (although I wouldn't eat any of these for lunch). The best though, is seeing her sense of humor come out in the recipes. This cookbook is fun to just read through, even if you don't have time to make any of the recipes right then. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48728951 to: Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
bookshelves: childrens-ya, fall-2009
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