false 312880 31 female Coralville, IA 08/2007 12/2009 1265 Jane Austen 4432 Jasper Fforde 1169504 A.S. Byatt 3472 Margaret Atwood 1036615 Charlotte Brontë 106 Madeleine L'Engle 27 392 283 true 5624699 read 33 true 658796 currently-reading 76 true 658795 to-read 30 false 883370 books-to-think-about 21 false 741758 my-favorite-things 16 false 722111 books-that-make-my-tbr-pile-grow 15 false 5534547 newbery-reading-project 10 false 722071 books-i-should-read-again-later 3 false 668374 books-i-dumped-after-reading-them 2 false 5531806 knitty-things-that-rock 1 false 1940715 books-that-are-ok The Ascent of Money (ebook) by Niall Ferguson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81522821 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255864080s/7003913.jpg 312880 Melissa http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1188329688p2/312880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/312880-melissa Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:52:41 -0800 The Help (ebook) by Kathryn Stockett]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81214427 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 312880 Melissa http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1188329688p2/312880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/312880-melissa Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:40:38 -0800 The Help to be good - I wasn't expecting it to make me care about the characters. I almost cried (during a certain scene at Aibileen's church) while reading on the bus and it takes quite a bit to make me cry over a book.

I have to go think about this some more before writ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2167211-pam-van-hylckama-vlieg http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238170610p2/2167211.jpg 312880 Melissa http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1188329688p2/312880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/312880-melissa Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:33:23 -0800
I would probably pick The Magus, too.]]> The Book of Air and Shadows (Hardcover) by Michael Gruber]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65050455 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176273276s/609801.jpg 312880 Melissa http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1188329688p2/312880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/312880-melissa Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:25:02 -0800
I've been sitting on the hard cover for a while (since May 2007, actually) and the story seemed interesting. A lost Shakespeare manuscript ('tis the vogue for mysteries these days it seems), mobsters, creepy lawyers, paleography...seemed intere...more...]]>