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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12023726 The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback) by Audrey Niffenegger
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Fascinating, detailed, should be good-for-you like vitamins, yet somehow does not reward the work. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12023051 to: Cities (Paperback) by John Reader
Scarcely have I read a more fact-filled book. Fact fact fact fact. Fact.

That said, I did persevere the many weeks it took of bedside reading to get through Cities. The major themes of the book (disease, environmentalism, sprawl) were interesting in a "how'd they do that" kind of way, and were conveyed by someone clearly passionate about the subject. I was wishing for a more conversational style and impassioned appeal (picked it up in the first place because hey, I like cities too), instead got a fairly balanced look at both the beneficial and consumptive aspects of city life through the ages.

Although, I did wonder why everything, even modern day area, was expressed as ha. Huh? ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12022996 Sophie's World (Paperback) by Jostein Gaarder
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