false 13 456 394 true 5700106 read 3 true 5000372 currently-reading 59 true 5000371 to-read 100 false 5000382 history 89 false 5000381 fiction 35 false 5018607 biographical-autobiographical 33 false 5020444 sci-fi-fantasy 29 false 5018612 humor 18 false 5000387 nature 18 false 5020971 horror 16 false 5020437 hypnosis-self-help-health 13 false 5020816 mystery 12 false 5060951 true-adventure 10 false 5020441 travel 9 false 5021050 fantasy 6 false 5021137 romance 5 false 5060852 true-crime 4 false 5000385 writing 3 false 5060848 political 3 false 5060851 satire 2 false 5021120 children 2 false 5022108 stageplay 1 false 5255929 science 0 false 5020432 hobbies http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79698309 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Hardcover) by Antony Beevor
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79698201 Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Paperback) by James M. Tabor
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79698139 Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover) by Joan Druett
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79556498 to: Relic (Pendergast #1) by Douglas Preston
bookshelves: fiction, horror
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79244734 to: The Monster of Florence (Audio Cassette) by Douglas Preston
bookshelves: biographical-autobiographical, history, true-crime, writing
To paraphrase Preston in his own book, most authors wouldn't have the guts to create some of the true-life characters he ran into during his trip down the rabbit hole while living abroad in Italy. What started out as an innocent curiosity about a local series of killings rapidly turned into a vortex that not only sucked the author into the world of conspiracy theories and justice system run amuck, but ended with him being one of the accused. This reads like a true thriller novel, but all of it is true and astounding. There are truely some dark shadows under the sun of Tuscany. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79245442 No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home (Paperback) by Chris Offutt
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78378096 to: Easy Company Soldier: The Endless Combat of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" (Hardcover) by Don Malarkey
Listened to book on CD...

I found this one of the better memoirs I've read recently. It was well-written, descriptive, thoughtful, moving, and really amazing when you think of what he and so many others endured during the war, particularly as volunteers. I also liked the tidbits he offered regarding the HBO series Band of Brothers, both good and bad. If you're interested in learning what the war in Europe was like from the POV of someone who saw more than his share of action on the front lines, this is a good one. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55814320 Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid (Hardcover) by J. Maarten Troost
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55873656 to: The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers (Paperback) by Elizabeth Benedict
bookshelves: writing
I've gotten some good, insightful pointers! Probably the best thing, though, is the explanation about how use of dialogue is far more interesting, not to mention character-developing--than writing about the act itself. There are a couple of things I might disagree with in here--I think it depends on why you pick up a book that contains sex scenes in it, because in some cases that's exactly what you DO want, rather than anticeptic implications that something happened, which was often the sort of example she gives. But overall a decent book if you're a writer struggling with writing adult content of any sort. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72385779 The Jungle Is Neutral (Classics of World War II the Secret War) by F. Spencer Chapman
bookshelves: to-read
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