false 16 87 79 true 5625223 read 3 true 4203121 currently-reading 5 true 4203120 to-read 0 false 5065313 a-thousand-splendid-suns <![CDATA[Whitney added 'Outliers']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75625620 to: Outliers (Hardcover) by Malcolm Gladwell
I found this book fascinating in the beginning, but then got a little bored. I think Gladwell could have proven his point in a much shorter essay of sorts. All in all I learned things I didn't know, and now have some interesting trivia ideas, but I don't feel like any of it was new information that will help me with my path to success. Glad I read it though. ]]> <![CDATA[Whitney added 'The Giver']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77685525 The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry
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I am loving this series, however I feel like this one took a bit longer to get going, and I guess I wanted more to happen, but all in all I enjoyed this read. ]]> <![CDATA[Whitney added 'These Is My Words']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44851919 to: These Is My Words (Paperback) by Nancy E. Turner
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]]> <![CDATA[Whitney added 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67872286 to: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer
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]]> <![CDATA[Whitney added 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59749838 to: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Hardcover) by Mary Ann Shaffer
I liked this book enough to give it 3 stars, but I think I'm on the boarder, so it's probably about a 2.5 rating for me. I just didn't connect with the characters as much as I wanted to because of the disjointed concept of letters. The love story had just started to develop between Juliet and Dawsey and then they ended it with Mark's arrival, then just ended the book with it all working out. I missed the development of it all, especially from Dawsey's end. It's a clever concept for writing, but just didn't work for me. ]]>