false 5 21 20 true 5876478 read 1 true 3961244 currently-reading 0 true 3961243 to-read 0 false 5281291 second-chance <![CDATA[Jan is on page 73 of Gate of the Sun ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60404353 Jan is on page 73 of 544 of Gate of the Sun ]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'Gate of the Sun']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60404353 Gate of the Sun (Paperback) by Elias Khoury
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]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60403919 to: A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary (Hardcover) by Andrew Levy
I can relate! AND, it confirmed that I am not crazy--I think every pain that he writes about, I have also experienced. Did you know that there are many creative and intelligent people that have suffered from migraine--Thomas Jefferson, Georgia O'Keefe, Pablo Picasso...? ]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60403655 to: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback) by Jon Krakauer
Fascinating and dramatic story. While I could relate to their motivation, it did not inspire me to climb a mountain. Climbing over bottomless ice crevasses scares the hell out of me just reading about it! ]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60403486 to: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland (Paperback) by James St. James
Drugs will make you do horrible, horrible things. ]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'Spring Torrents']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60403335 to: Spring Torrents (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
No happy ending here--sad. A love story gone wrong. ]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60402985 to: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (Paperback) by Studs Terkel
Things never change--so many things resonated to what is going on in our time. ]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60402558 to: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback) by Kay Redfield Jamison
Really helps to understand mental illness, depression and how pills and culture relate to it all. ]]> <![CDATA[Jan added 'Second Chance']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60402329 to: Second Chance (Hardcover) by Jane Green
Very fluffy and predictable. I was fascinated with the DIY kitchen scenes , gave me some ideas. ]]>