Matthew’s Profile

248 ratings (3.99 avg)
104 reviews

add as a friend follow reviews send message | compare books

Matthew’s favorite books

The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore

More…

Matthew’s Bookshelves

read ‎(254)
currently-reading ‎(2)

to-read ‎(115)
favoritebooksofall-timeever ‎(20)

recentlyread ‎(6)
gave-up-on ‎(4)

Cloud Shelves | Stats | More…

Matthew is Currently Reading

Matthew is currently reading

Memoirs Of The Devil

by Roger Vadim

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

24. August, 09:28 Uhr

Matthew is currently reading

Hello Darling, Are You Working?

by Rupert Everett

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

07. Februar, 10:22 Uhr

rss
Matthew's Recent Updates

Matthew is now friends with Anna March
14. Mai, 11:12 Uhr · like
Matthew rated a book 3 of 5 stars Shuttlecock by Graham Swift read in March, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Really interesting and creepy setup. Not really any payoff whatsoever. I tried reading Waterland in the nineties but never got into it, for some reason. I had the opposite problem with this, really I got really invested towards the beginning. And the...more
01. April, 17:06 Uhr · see review
Matthew rated a book 4 of 5 stars Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote read in February, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I swore off novels about pubescent southern children after I read The Member of the Wedding two years ago and realized that I couldn't handle this vast subsection of American literature without flashing back to high school English classes, with all t...more
13. Februar, 17:45 Uhr · see review
Matthew rated a book 1 of 5 stars Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I actually only got a third of the way through this book but Jesus Christ.
05. Februar, 06:43 Uhr · see review
Matthew wants to read Betty Goes Vegan: Over 500 Classic Recipes for the Modern Family by Annie Shannon	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
05. Februar, 06:42 Uhr
Matthew entered a giveaway Betty Goes Vegan: Over 500 Classic Recipes for the Modern Family by Annie Shannon	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
05. Februar, 06:42 Uhr · like · see giveaway
Matthew wants to read The Red Bear Society by Tracy L. Darity (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
05. Februar, 06:40 Uhr
Matthew wants to read How to Boil an Egg by Rose Carrarini	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
05. Februar, 06:40 Uhr
Matthew rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Duel by Giacomo Casanova read in December, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19. Dezember, 10:27 Uhr
Matthew rated a book 5 of 5 stars Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram read in December, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wow! It's been... some time since I couldn't put down a work of literary non-fiction. I'm as taken by Bram's first-person opinions as I am his well-researched looks into Williams/Isherwood/Capote/Vidal/Baldwin through Tony Kushner, a proto-JT LeRoy w...more
02. Dezember, 20:21 Uhr · see review