false 50 638 226 true 5656941 read 4 true 3736125 currently-reading 408 true 3736124 to-read 64 false 5577942 recommended-reading 44 false 5577973 politics-government-finance 41 false 3747442 ya-fiction 34 false 5577935 recent-fiction 30 false 4498311 food-policy-and-agriculture 25 false 5577924 memoir 22 false 5577982 social-science 17 false 5577954 cookbooks 16 false 5578145 religious-or-spiritual 13 false 5566428 mpa-related 11 false 3746890 children-s-books 10 false 5507269 on-hold-for-now 10 false 5162699 i-quit 9 false 5577998 language-and-grammar 8 false 5578022 learning-and-education 8 false 5578224 science 6 false 5578006 short-story-collection 6 false 5578092 waste-of-time 6 false 4751290 humor http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77661300 Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1) by Eduardo Galeano
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37729878 Love in the Time of Cholera (Hardcover) by Gabriel García Márquez
bookshelves: currently-reading, recommended-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77646037 The House of the Spirits (Hardcover) by Isabel Allende
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64533022 to: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paperback) by Truman Capote
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This book is almost as strange as the film adaptation.Truman Capote's characters are crafted really well and so fun to read that the story almost plays itself out before your eyes. Despite her obvious foibles, I loved Holly Golightly right along with the narrator. I was simultaneously charmed by her innocence while I was appalled by her predation of men and unabashedly depthless, sketchy lifestyle.

I gasped audibly every time I came across the abundant racial or sexist epithets. If you are equally shockable, you might want to read this one in private. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77215191 NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children (Hardcover) by Po Bronson
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76821048 Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America (Hardcover) by Glenn Alan Cheney
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73871437 to: Emma (Audio CD) by Jane Austen
bookshelves: recommended-reading
Emma is an utterly delightful story. I had been wanting something light, and this was just the thing. The language is nothing but fun and the characters are such . . . characters. The only thing lacking is the depth that is so prevelent in Austen's other stories. I found myself wondering at times whether Emma was meant to be satirical - She is just so different than Jane Austen's other heroines and the drama of her life carries so little weight in comparison. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76811546 Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (Hardcover) by Ilan Stavans
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76580219 The Help (Hardcover) by Kathryn Stockett
bookshelves: to-read
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