false 1796712 F Sydney, Australia 12/2008 12/2009 13 551 425 true 5788572 read 5 true 3946400 currently-reading 121 true 3946399 to-read 89 false 5363659 jean-plaidy 69 false 3946556 kid-s-stuff 46 false 5363639 favourites 35 false 5363610 coming-of-age 24 false 5368284 australian 18 false 5363611 bios 12 false 6115204 astrology 7 false 5363604 jane-austen 7 false 5363620 stupid-shit 6 false 5363603 elizabeth-gaskell 5 false 5363654 book-club 4 false 6115211 natural-medicine 3 false 5363605 frances-burney 3 false 5363609 george-eliot 1 false 6115140 shelved-this-agonising-bastard http://www.goodreads.com/trivia http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg 1796712 Simone http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1796712-simone Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:58:19 -0800 Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback) by Elizabeth Gilbert]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77898161 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg 1796712 Simone http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1796712-simone Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:10:39 -0800
Absolutely everything that ever happened in th...more...]]> The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61867001 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1164045516s/3590.jpg 1796712 Simone http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1796712-simone Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:27:56 -0800 Suite Française (Paperback) by Irène Némirovsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79323883 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170240456s/43944.jpg 1796712 Simone http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1796712-simone Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:26:29 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40100791 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167249254s/19501.jpg 1796712 Simone http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1796712-simone Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:17:36 -0800
This book for me was a shit sandwich.
I really like her writing style but I really, really don't like her.
In the same way, I liked some of her experiences but few of her egocentric conclusions.
Her conclusions of course, were so self absorbed that I felt ashamed for her at least every other page.

There was one page early on in the book where she'd written "I" so many times it looked like a Dr Suess book.

I wouldn't have made it past page 2 except that it was for a book club.

Yuk.
]]> Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback) by Greg Mortenson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77511438 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358990s/49436.jpg 1796712 Simone http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1796712-simone Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:04:01 -0800 The Men Who Killed Qantas (Paperback) by Matthew Benns]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77510700 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hnfYU7YfL._SL75_.jpg 1796712 Simone http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231138560p2/1796712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1796712-simone Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:15 -0800