false 116 574 182 true 5635614 read 3 true 628303 currently-reading 389 true 628302 to-read 105 false 2067143 1001_books 101 false 836838 nonfiction 80 false 634503 awesomeauthors 62 false 630976 classics 58 false 836835 historical 40 false 1447945 fantasy 27 false 643482 girlsonly 26 false 2050990 own 21 false 637456 newfavorites 21 false 629191 oldfavorites 20 false 836841 bookclub 19 false 836846 memoirs-diaries 18 false 630996 sexy 14 false 1476037 self-help 12 false 1447952 new_classics 12 false 1140156 boyish_books 10 false 1875197 pulp 9 false 4050481 guilty-pleasure 7 false 1131708 nerds_only 6 false 1082654 theatre-plays 5 false 4050484 mystery-horror 5 false 5579457 vampires 4 false 1937547 shorts_collections 1 false 2111945 biographies 1 false 1661346 newauthors http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8723750 Notes from a Small Island (Paperback) by Bill Bryson
bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction, own
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69650931 Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris
bookshelves: currently-reading, newfavorites, vampires
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60789930 to: Where Serpents Sleep: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery (Sebastian St. Cyr, #4) by C.S. Harris
bookshelves: historical, mystery-horror, newfavorites
I really love this series, however, as it's gone on, I'm starting to get just a tad frustrated at Harris' tendancy to convenient endings. All four books so far have had endings that are, not exactly a twist, but rather, with what I think is something of an out-of-left-field killer. I think she sometimes skimps on the initial foreshadowing, so that the endings, though they make sense, sort of come from no where.

Still, I love Sebastian, and I love the historical detail and accuracy that is woven through the novels. I really do hope she comes out with a fifth novel, there are still lots of things I want to see resolved. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8696284 to: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback) by Susanna Clarke
bookshelves: awesomeauthors, fantasy, historical, own
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48469590 to: Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings (Paperback) by Lynn Grabhorn
bookshelves: self-help
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64538188 The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce, & Keep the Man You Want (Hardcover) by Karrine Steffans
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64537951 Shakespeare Wrote for Money (Paperback) by Nick Hornby
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61472993 to: The Black Swan (Fairy Tales, #2) by Mercedes Lackey
bookshelves: awesomeauthors, fantasy, own
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60789877 to: What Angels Fear: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1) by C.S. Harris
bookshelves: historical, mystery-horror, newfavorites
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