false 14 245 214 true 5770109 read 2 true 107483 currently-reading 29 true 107482 to-read 94 false 1524255 fiction 82 false 107484 poetry 25 false 1524455 translations 13 false 1524236 language 10 false 107491 primarysources 8 false 1705980 nonfiction 8 false 1524357 poetics 7 false 1705949 shortfiction 7 false 1707378 italian 5 false 1669381 japanese 5 false 1705924 russian 5 false 107490 history 3 false 107489 criticism 2 false 1524462 chinese 2 false 1524463 zhongwen 2 false 1707371 german 2 false 1524868 french 2 false 1707402 spanish 2 false 2169913 work 1 false 2169910 design 1 false 1712418 portuguese 1 false 1705909 turkish 1 false 2118370 tech 0 false 1712417 czech <![CDATA[Ryan added 'Tree of Smoke: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11870733 Tree of Smoke: A Novel (Hardcover) by Denis Johnson
bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction
]]> <![CDATA[Ryan added 'How the Mind Works']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18753284 How the Mind Works (Paperback) by Steven Pinker
bookshelves: nonfiction
]]> <![CDATA[Ryan is on page 672 of How the Mind Works ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18753284 Ryan is finished with How the Mind Works ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Ryan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/222901-please-post-your-poem-for-the-november-goodreads-contest Ryan made a comment in the ¡ POETRY ! group:

The Belief in Baleful Stars
by Ryan Scott Nance

As if the face were of a man

Thin stars with elongated tails: 3s
naturally imply a vertical axis—— a scaffolding
of degrees,

as in top mid low——
the three will not commingle,
skygrowth cannot upsurge a human.
Stonedrift, outcrop, stalactite,
snagstone. The cosmic triad tacks
man squarely between sky and rock.

This is me talking. Principles
of controlled movement, dryness & moisture,
appear to have answers——

A stunning kit of ways to describe
the predicament

Should such a man (fond of
study and fond of resolute
characters) chance upon any,
he will know the jade
from the shingle at a single
glance. How many words

do I have for copy? breaks, losses,
wormhole damage. There are five classics:
changes, odes, history, rites
and the comments on Spring & Autumn;
and five elements: consumption, stability,
growth, mutability and flexible
incorruptibility; 3 may imply
verticality, but 5 pins down
a broad horizontal vellum field——

the four quarters and the center——
wrist, neck, shame, foot, foot,
ankle, tooth. The five sacred
peaks, all of an interchangeable
basic function, on a single level. ]]> <![CDATA[Ryan added 'The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59617054 The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 (Paperback) by Jack Gilbert
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Ryan added 'The Dance Most of All: Poems']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59617019 The Dance Most of All: Poems (Hardcover) by Jack Gilbert
bookshelves: poetry, to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Ryan added 'The Crystal Palace: Rescue of the Baby Fairy Prince']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57871737 to: The Crystal Palace: Rescue of the Baby Fairy Prince (Paperback) by Michele Hauser
]]> <![CDATA[Ryan added 'Collected Poems']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57871050 to: Collected Poems (Paperback, 218pp) by Philip Larkin
]]> <![CDATA[Ryan added 'One Hundred Years of Solitude']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37292974 to: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover) by Gabriel García Márquez
]]> <![CDATA[Ryan added 'The Alchemist']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37292965 to: The Alchemist (Paperback) by Paulo Coelho
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