false 2324587 44 Canada 05/2009 12/2009 4 37 36 true 5767638 read 0 true 5044068 currently-reading 1 true 5044067 to-read Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (Paperback) by Jeff Smith]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81961960 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171242789s/92143.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:19:14 -0800 Walt Kelly and Floyd Gottfredson types, with dash of peppery good-girl art for that extra zip to pu...more...]]> Moon Palace (Paperback) by Paul Auster]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57253050 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917443s/447.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:56:36 -0800 I set up the funeral by telephone, contacted a few of [Uncle:] Victor's friends (Howie Dunn, the broken-nosed saxophonist, a number of former students), made a half-hearted attempt to reach Dora (she couldn't be found), and then accompanied the casket back to Chicago. Victor was buried next to my mo...more...]]> Zeroville (Paperback) by Steve Erickson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56765847 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190241683s/921569.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:52:58 -0800 "Houdini was related to one of the Three Stooges by marriage. I'll bet I'm the only one in this Heretic City who knows that."

The word “heretic” carries a heap of freight in this context. It’s the summer of 1969. A 24-year-old kid has just fled his studies in religion and ...more...]]> Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders by Paul Maliszewski]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56765726 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f-g%2BEd5vL._SL75_.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:48:49 -0800 As my hackwork piled still higher I began to think of journalism not as a series of unique assignments or stories, but as a limited number of ideas and conventions, which each story had somehow to affirm.

Thus begins Paul Maliszewski’s short but colorful career as a hoaxer and satirist....more...]]> Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (Paperback) by Joan Silber]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56765640 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172290186s/161315.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:47:21 -0800 Ideas Of Heaven: A Ring Of Stories by Joan Silber was so delightful and easy for me to polish off, it took some time to register just when and where her characters began to haunt me. All six stories are written in first person narrative. Each voice has its own rhythm, tone and charm — their narrat...more...]]> A Trip To The Stars (Paperback) by Nicholas Christopher]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79630415 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166669092s/14967.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:12:08 -0800 A Trip To The Stars is fated to remain unfinished -- its pretensions have deflated its attempted "realism" of any emotional pow...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78182693 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255736254s/4070095.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:58:39 -0800 here.]]> Asterios Polyp (Hardcover) by David Mazzucchelli]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78182693 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255736254s/4070095.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:57:09 -0800 Paul Auster, whose Moon Palace is near the top of this list, failed to impress me with his ...more...]]> The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (Hardcover) by Timothy Keller]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56764028 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210345886s/1858013.jpg 2324587 whiskyprajer Reimer http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1242847557p2/2324587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2324587-whiskyprajer-reimer Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:40:32 -0800
I constantly fought my own "stump tha perfesser" impulse while reading this book, eve...more...]]>