false 243477 M Washington, DC 08/2007 12/2009 570975 Amy King 10 58 57 true 5723432 read 1 true 507882 currently-reading 0 true 507881 to-read The Plot Against America (Vintage International) by Philip Roth]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14254572 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157224078s/703.jpg 243477 Eric http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1247774672p2/243477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/243477-eric Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:35:12 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7583-kim-addonizio-prayer http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1182288212p2/233.jpg 243477 Eric http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1247774672p2/243477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/243477-eric Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:33:02 -0800
"What Do Women Want?"

I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.


]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4432777 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156042887s/26.jpg 243477 Eric http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1247774672p2/243477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/243477-eric Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:16:05 -0700
As a Des Moines native, I thought Bryson hit the nail on the head about our hometown: "Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines."]]> The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories Plus a Complete Novel (Paperback) by Arthur Conan Doyle]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7888031 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G2H236JAL._SL75_.jpg 243477 Eric http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1247774672p2/243477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/243477-eric Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:45:25 -0700 The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect (Paperback) by Bill Kovach]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7887811 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172232558s/151522.jpg 243477 Eric http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1247774672p2/243477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/243477-eric Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:40:46 -0700 The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7887657 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581720s/968.jpg 243477 Eric http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1247774672p2/243477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/243477-eric Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:38:40 -0700 Crow and Weasel (Paperback) by Barry Lopez]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7887322 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171380620s/97500.jpg 243477 Eric http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1247774672p2/243477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/243477-eric Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:28:24 -0700