false 10 107 104 true 7905961 read 3 true 7906339 currently-reading 0 true 7906338 to-read 39 false 7906605 less-loved 27 false 7906706 awesomeness 22 false 7906557 series-magnificos 14 false 7906521 teens 11 false 7906566 cracking-sci-fi 10 false 7906542 for-the-ladies- 8 false 7906779 non-fictions-ok http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77963607 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover) by Barbara Kingsolver
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77960897 to: Being There (Paperback) by Jerzy Kosiński
bookshelves: awesomeness
Huh. That's all I can seem to say.
For a book that is almost too basic in it's language and structure I ended up feeling totally spun around by it. In short, a housebound man whose only experience consists of what he's seen on TV is thrust out of his familiar into the real world . . .where he lands in the most powerful of households and becomes an overnight sensation. Will he survive with his limited grasp on reality? ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77208162 to: Angela's Ashes (Paperback) by Frank McCourt
bookshelves: awesomeness
Such a great book. You truly get feel for his early life - the misery and the hilarity.
Plus it's the book that I learned my favorite word (non-word?) that I use constantly:
BOCKETY
He uses it to describe the broken baby carriage wheel that always wants to go awry - like the bockety shopping cart wheel. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77208068 to: 'Tis (Paperback) by Frank McCourt
Good read but AA is better. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77207964 Jinx (Hardcover) by Meg Cabot
bookshelves: currently-reading, teens
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77203732 to: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Paperback) by Max Brooks
bookshelves: awesomeness
Who would think? I mean, it's a book about zombies. But, oh, what a book.
I am not a horror genre person and even the spoof movie Saturday the 14th scared the bejeezus out of me so don't shy away from this selection.
Hasn't the logical part of your brain ever carried on an internal conversation about how zombies make no sense? I mean they're slow and they make a ridiculous amount of noise so you know they are coming and can get out of the way - right?
Well Brooks takes that traditional idea of the slow noisy zombie and make a throughly believable case study of how they could take over the world in our time (if they existed).
THIS IS A MUST READ. Take out zombies and put in swine flu and it could happen. He thinks of all the causes and effects and covers everything from political causes, environmental destruction, family dynamics, etc.
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77203172 to: The Road (Hardcover) by Cormac McCarthy
bookshelves: less-loved
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77203091 to: American Gods (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman
bookshelves: awesomeness
This was a great book just for the sheer inventiveness of it. What happens to all the old Gods in this new time? ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77202998 to: The Graveyard Book (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman
bookshelves: awesomeness, teens
Not really a teen book - or more - a young teen book. But great story as per usual from Gaiman. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76722698 to: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer
bookshelves: awesomeness
So good! Cannot be missed. ]]>