false 14 46 40 true 5688084 read 3 true 5082285 currently-reading 3 true 5082284 to-read 15 false 5082324 own 6 false 5082325 favorites 5 false 5154161 coming-of-age-novels 3 false 5154187 theatre-in-which-i-participated 3 false 5154179 drama 2 false 5154194 better-than-the-movie 2 false 5154162 german-language 1 false 7013956 short-story-collections 1 false 7121709 abandoned <![CDATA[Lacey made a comment on Colin McKay Miller's profile]]> http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/739464-colin-mckay-miller Lacey made a comment on Colin McKay Miller's profile:

Dude, I say you needn't bother. Be as discerning as you want! I love to judge things harshly. AS HARSH AS POSSIBLE. Like I said, books that won't be above a 3 don't even make it onto my reading radar. ]]> <![CDATA[Lacey is on page 150 of Extremely Loud and I... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73831011 Lacey is on page 150 of 368 of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ]]> <![CDATA[Lacey added 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73831011 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> <![CDATA[Lacey added 'The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58720900 to: The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present (Paperback) by Scott Plagenhoef
]]> <![CDATA[Lacey is on page 302 of The Yiddish Policeme... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56933627 Lacey is on page 302 of 414 of The Yiddish Policemen's Union ]]> <![CDATA[Lacey added 'The Lover']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73831072 to: The Lover (Complete Works, Volume 2) by Harold Pinter
bookshelves: drama, theatre-in-which-i-participated
I directed this play in spring of 2008, so I am very, very familiar with it as this point, and I just love it. It is an under-appreciated member of Pinter's body of work but it's a fantastic little one act with a lot of twists.

The great thing about this play is that it can be read or performed as a very sad dramatic piece as easily as it can be a sort of dark, psychological comedy (which is the route I personally took) and is rich with the kind of diction and style that makes Pinter so prolific. It's definitely worth a read, especially for students of the theatre. ]]> <![CDATA[Lacey added 'Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73831013 to: Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer
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bookshelves: abandoned, own
I almost never abandon books. Ever. If it's really bad, I'll put it down a week and come back. I kept telling myself I should read this book. Oh, it's won awards! It's an important text! But I was fooling myself.

It was bad, and I didn't enjoy it, and after devoting my time to 100 pages, nearly half the book, I realized that I did not and had never had any desire to finish it. Oh, and the plot alluded to? Definitely not hit by 100 pages in. 100 pages and the plot summary STILL did not match what I was reading. I have a stack of books as tall as I am that says tick-freaking-tock. This was not worth the time I had already invested. ]]> <![CDATA[Lacey added 'Downtown Owl: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73830454 Downtown Owl: A Novel (Hardcover) by Chuck Klosterman
bookshelves: to-read
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