false 1 5 4 true 6239509 read 1 true 1323884 currently-reading 0 true 1323883 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42940475 The Shadow In The Water by Inger Frimansson
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Heard a review on NPR that made this sound interesting ... will let you know. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42940214 to: Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback) by Judith Levine
Ordered this from the library after hearing Judith on public radio. She describes her year out of the shopping rut - buying only absolute necessities. A little more political than I normally seek out, but relevant today (it was written in 2004). ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42939883 to: The House on Fortune Street: A Novel (Hardcover) by Margot Livesey
I picked up this at the library knowing nothing about it, and was initially put off by the male narrator in the fist segment. However, I turned my opinion around once I got further in. The story is actually told from the perspective of 4 different characters over different overlapping time periods, so it was interesting and different. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9849281 to: You: Staying Young (Hardcover) by Michael F. Roizen
More reading selected in the shameless quest for the fountain of youth. I'm not actually reading it yet - my husband has it and since he reads at about 2 pages a day, I have to subsist on crumbs of information he occassionally scatters in my direction. I bought it because in Dr. Oz's interview on Oprah, he mentioned a few things from the latest scientific reseach I had not heard yet. For example, your aging well depends upon keeping the tips of your telemere's "unfrayed" (these are at the tip of your chromosommes). If they are unfrayed, you can build healthy replacement cells, otherwise.... Now how to do that? I'll keep you posted. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9849441 to: The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life (Paperback) by Amy Tan
Started this on an airplane 3 year ago and just got back to it now. I generally like biographical pieces, but I'm not sure finding out Tan is a "real" person makes up for demystifying the process of writing her novels. I think I enjoyed them more before I knew so much was just a matter of chance. ]]>