false 1777872 The United States 12/2008 11/2009 5 125 116 true 5692847 read 1 true 3906098 currently-reading 8 true 3906097 to-read 14 false 4376989 non-fiction 13 false 3965226 poetry 5 false 4376986 rich-mystery http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77120944 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q0zGH90dL._SL75_.jpg 1777872 Juanitapat http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1777872-juanitapat Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:02:08 -0800
I do appreciate, always, excerpts from a book that help me gauge whether I would judge that particular line or phrase or sentence in the same way. Then I know how much the review helps me predict whether or not I want the book (and whether or not I can generally follow a reviewer. I do you, follow, that is.]]> Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetries (Paperback) by Reginald Shepherd]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77040272 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190236924s/1913564.jpg 1777872 Juanitapat http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1777872-juanitapat Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:33:38 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74729864 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171507813s/104189.jpg 1777872 Juanitapat http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1777872-juanitapat Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:54:21 -0700 1, meets a 'godly woman,'
and (2,--as general synopsis: "What is God doing?" when he
gives the woman cancer and the millionaire Armani-suited art dealer the charge to save the slave?

Thanks for the note. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43410955 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166054170s/9777.jpg 1777872 Juanitapat http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1777872-juanitapat Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:54:39 -0700 The God of Small Things last week, and have been out of town, planning to write a review when I got back. I too would give it 5 stars. What are some of the things you admired about the book especially? It would be fun to do a "joint" review or something.

Anyway, your post-invite was a treat for the day.


Juanita]]> The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Paperback) by J.D. McClatchy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40158642 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172655612s/203922.jpg 1777872 Juanitapat http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1777872-juanitapat Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:50:45 -0700 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55627808 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220411546s/285358.jpg 1777872 Juanitapat http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1777872-juanitapat Sat, 23 May 2009 21:30:49 -0700
Seriously, I was thinking about the fact that the dream of democracy revealed itself to be a mirage as soon as the society it was to regulate expanded beyond the size at which every voter was personally acquainted with the candidates. Once the source of knowledge about issues and candidates became regulated by ownership of media, democracy became dysfunctional.

And, finally, thanks because I never read the book, having confused the names Buckminster Fuller and William Buckley. ("Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity," I cry to myself today with a rueful chuckle. But those were giddy days indeed.)]]>