false413286 I promise I don't give every book I've ever read five stars - it just seems that way. I do, however, rate books based on how successful they are at being what they are supposed to be. Space operas can get top marks for being fun and a little thought-provoking, but a book that tries to be Deeply Profound Earth-Moving Literature is going to have to deliver a little bit more to get the same marks.
While I've certainly read many more books than are on my "read" list, I'm using GoodReads to track what I've read since I joined, and I'm trying to review every single book as I read it. Trying to add everything I've read ever in my life to the "read" list was just too daunting.]]>23femaleWest Lebanon, NH09/200712/2009The Left Hand of Darkness]]>1717844true5641865read3true857536currently-reading131true857535to-read9false3384387star-trek6false4091431discworld4false2612051will-it-hold-up-to-rereading3false4701700books-for-a-lifetimeBorn to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Hardcover) by Christopher McDougall]]>
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Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:56:34 -0700The Telling (Paperback) by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:24:23 -0700Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) by Laura Ingalls Wilder]]>
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Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:54:27 -0700Farmer Boy (Little House, #3) by Laura Ingalls Wilder]]>
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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:45:31 -0700 This is certainly an idealized version of 19th-cen...more...]]>
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Hardcover) by Susanna Clarke]]>
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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:38:01 -0700
Clarke slowly lures you in to her world, a version of early 19th-century England where the art of magic is real but lost, and where the struggle to bring it back again has unexpected consequences. She has a wonderful way with descriptive words - the novel is a slow one, but if you are the kind...more...]]>
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Mass Market Paperback) by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:23:13 -0700Things Fall Apart (Paperback) by Chinua Achebe]]>
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:39:03 -0700One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Paperback) by Ken Kesey]]>
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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:44:29 -0700 There's very little I can say about this book tha...more...]]>
The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback) by Ursula K. Le Guin]]>
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Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:13:54 -0700 As the main character and his psychiatrist slowly repair the wo...more...]]>