false 13 290 248 true 5648771 read 2 true 5549254 currently-reading 40 true 5549253 to-read 81 false 5549234 library-book 2 false 5549299 harvard-classics 0 false 8216286 wishlist <![CDATA[Brendan added 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78436099 to: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board book) by Eric Carle
I didn't read this as a kid, but I am mildly amused reading it to my 8-month-old. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Brendan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73716712 Natalie's review of Under the Dome: A Novel
by Stephen King

Stephen, your comments and general writing style make me violently ill. You and your horrendous cerebral cortex should be marched off to a dirty alleyway in Central America and shot, burned, and checked for feces.

Because you clearly have s*** for brains.

Happy now?

With love,

Brendan ]]> <![CDATA[Brendan is on page 130 of The Life Of Benjamin... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77789558 Brendan is on page 130 of 549 of The Life Of Benjamin Franklin: Journalist 1706-1730 ]]> <![CDATA[Brendan added 'How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78155309 to: How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback) by Thomas Cahill
Read before my Ireland trip. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Brendan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77994275 D.'s review of More than a Game: The Glorious Present--and the Uncertain Future--of the NFL
by Brian Billick

College football is for those who delight in the misery of the young. College sports are a grotesque mockery of higher education and a stain on the educational institutions of Western civilization. ]]> <![CDATA[Brendan added 'Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77945906 to: Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (Paperback) by Jack Dann
A very good collection. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Brendan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77736296 Natalie's review of Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)
by Daniel Paul Schreber

Natalie's a Jew? No wonder I love her. ]]> <![CDATA[Brendan added 'The Life Of Benjamin Franklin: Journalist 1706-1730']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77789558 The Life Of Benjamin Franklin: Journalist 1706-1730 (Life of Benjamin Franklin) by J.A. Leo Lemay
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]]> <![CDATA[Brendan added 'Harvard Classics, Shelf of Fiction, Vol. 01 & 02: The History of Tom Jones']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65560367 Harvard Classics, Shelf of Fiction, Vol. 01 & 02: The History of Tom Jones (Kindle Edition) by Henry Fielding
bookshelves: harvard-classics, to-read
I'm about one-third through this gigantic tome of satire, class comedy, Bildungsroman, romance, and British cheek. ]]>