false 62 172 50 true 5676364 read 0 true 778913 currently-reading 68 true 778912 to-read 28 true 4063126 2009-read 19 true 2969511 decided-to-skip 5 true 3143916 ordered-from-library 2 true 3745628 to-buy-someday http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68726317 The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3) by Dan Brown
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68646727 Shopgirl (Paperback) by Steve Martin
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68646558 The Kite Runner (Paperback) by Khaled Hosseini
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54092265 A Thousand Splendid Suns (Kindle Edition) by Khaled Hosseini
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37468662 The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback) by Audrey Niffenegger
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68509820 Jocelynneb's review of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by Alexander McCall Smith

Was it good? Or lame? I called...I figured you were home so I left a message. I'll call you tomorrow! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68509273 Jocelynneb's review of The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel
by Steve Martin

I feel a bit stupid but I had no idea he was even a writer! Doh! So I'm assuming this is fiction? Unless that's another thing I didn't know about the guy. :P ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68511115 The Want-Ad Killer (True Crime) by Ann Rule
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Had some family stuff going on and in the uncertainty decided a true-crime book might not be wise. I might read it another time. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68510169 Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Christopher Buckley
I consider myself a very smart person, and this book was full of words even *I* didn't know! Sheesh! Talk about writing for the common folk. Seriously, if I Post-it flagged every word to look up, this would look like a freakin divorce decree with all the "sign-here"s. Also, this bonehead goes right into the story ASSUMING we know who his "famous" parents are. He never says. What he does do though is list the famous people his parents hung around with. So what? He's all "I don't want to be a name dropper, but..." then proceeds to list about 100 names (some I recognized, some not).

So, I decided to not finish, and maybe I didn't even start. It's possible all of this was in the prologue or writer's note. I still don't know who his parents are, but I'm assuming his dad was some sort of political bigwig in personal contact (and the author too) with presidents. It seemed very pretentious of this guy to assume we know who they are. And maybe I'm just ignorant and should know? I have a feeling that even if I did know who they are, I still wouldn't want to read this. ]]>