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bookshelves: japan, latin-america, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77914104 Bone by Bone: A Novel (Hardcover) by Peter Matthiessen
bookshelves: aughts, to-read, west
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77913532 A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
bookshelves: plains, to-read, west
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77912386 This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind (Paperback) by Ivan Doig
bookshelves: american-history, california, cultural-studies, general-nf, plains, to-read, west
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77912245 Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West (Paperback) by Timothy Egan
bookshelves: american-history, general-nf, plains, to-read, west
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77911872 Bad Land: An American Romance (Paperback) by Jonathan Raban
bookshelves: american-history, cultural-studies, general-nf, plains, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66754249 to: Brooklyn: A Novel (Hardcover) by Colm Tóibín
bookshelves: aughts, irish, nyc
Gentle, quiet - yes, exactly so. There's something refreshing about a protagonist who dares to be ordinary, and an author who dares to admit, simply and undramatically, that love isn't always passion and violence and splashy color. It's quiet, subtle, difficult choices - the choice between two good but imperfect men - that make up the central conflict of Brooklyn. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71925136 to: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival (Hardcover) by Norman Ollestad
bookshelves: adventure-travel, memoir, outside
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74189812 The Bridge of the Golden Horn (Paperback) by Emine Sevgi Oezdamar
bookshelves: to-read, turkey
"It's difficult for me to comment on Sevgi's writing because I love it, and analysing something you love is a daft activity. Of course she's a story-teller, an irresistible all-night story-teller, and late in the morning wakes up telling another story. And when you hear them, you realise the extent of the emptiness they have filled." - John Berger, "About Badness" ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77646226 The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks (Paperback) by Susan Casey
bookshelves: general-nf, outside, to-read
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