false 735129 male Salt Lake City, UT 01/2008 12/2009 27 83 76 true 5666345 read 3 true 1488520 currently-reading 4 true 1488519 to-read 2 false 4973318 didn-t-finish The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To (Vintage Contemporaries) by DC Pierson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81812724 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bXIVPFShL._SL75_.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:40:27 -0800 Food, Girls, & Other Things I Can't Have (Hardcover) by Allen Zadoff]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81426713 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u5qoWq9AL._SL75_.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:39:44 -0800 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/257339-the-importance-of-titles http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1241666347p2/18340.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:52:34 -0800
Other things I look for (in a book by an author I don't know): 1) First line 2) Blurb by a known author 3) Good, engaging cover copy

Whatever grabs me, something has to. Walking by shelves of books, there has to be some method for cutting one out of the group and determining that it's worth your many-hour commitment to it. This is why we tend to read known authors until they let us down. We want a reliable product from someone we trust.]]> Back Story (Spenser) by Robert B. Parker]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81426672 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170710427s/69623.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:43:19 -0800 Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser, Book 34) by Robert B. Parker]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81426642 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170710424s/69614.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:43:02 -0800 Ayesha: The Return of She (Paperback) by H. Rider Haggard]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81133177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175378192s/509858.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:39:06 -0800 Angels of Destruction: A Novel (Hardcover) by Keith Donohue]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81133066 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140312s/5220121.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:37:29 -0800 The Demon and the City (Detective Inspector Chen #2) by Liz Williams]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81133019 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172219983s/150932.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:36:58 -0800 Snake Agent (Detective Inspector Chen #1) by Liz Williams]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77684198 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174679164s/429890.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:36:37 -0800
Highly intriguing setting, with a near-future Far East that encompasses the supernatural into daily life. The versions of heav...more...]]> Heaven's Prisoners (Paperback) by James Lee Burke]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81037963 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170446872s/55021.jpg 735129 Patrick http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1208124040p2/735129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/735129-patrick Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:33:44 -0800