false 12 86 56 true 5685624 read 0 true 1056375 currently-reading 30 true 1056374 to-read 20 false 2488392 weird-fiction 10 false 2488395 history <![CDATA[Sharon added 'School on Hearts Content Road']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51024545 to: School on Hearts Content Road (Hardcover) by Carolyn Chute
Very good writing and an interesting story are handicapped by Chute's relentless, heavy-handed politicizing. (Could she make it a little more obvious that public school teachers are the scum of the earth?)It would have been much stronger if she'd done less with the politics and explored more of the ambiguities of the Settlement's situation. I did love the characters of Jane and Mickey, though. ]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'Shakespeare: The World As Stage']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40895225 to: Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson
bookshelves: history
Very accessible and enjoyable. It's a good introduction to Shakespeare's life. I appreciate how Bryson shoots down the arguments of the Shakespeare-deniers. But for a more in-depth look, I'd recommend Greenblatt's Will in the World instead. ]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44801856 The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama (Hardcover) by Gwen Ifill
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44801783 The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet (Hardcover) by Neil deGrasse Tyson
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'The Graveyard Book']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40895252 to: The Graveyard Book (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman
bookshelves: weird-fiction
]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'The Court of the Air']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40895240 The Court of the Air (Paperback) by Stephen Hunt
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added '1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40895212 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback) by Charles C. Mann
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]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39951460 Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies) by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'The Crazy School']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39951371 to: The Crazy School (Hardcover) by Cornelia Read
]]> <![CDATA[Sharon added 'Magic for Beginners']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39951310 Magic for Beginners (Paperback) by Kelly Link
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