false 804258 F Sonoma, CA 01/2008 12/2009 157779 Wallace Stegner 7982 Anne Fadiman 14 333 278 true 5644391 read 3 true 1628133 currently-reading 25 true 1628132 to-read 20 true 4087298 audio-book 5 true 4177366 to-be-restarted 1 true 4876596 currently-listenening 1 true 4146383 re-read- 0 true 2219321 quit-in-the-middle 131 false 4086700 fiction 57 false 4086710 non-fiction 28 false 4086713 mystery 24 false 4086749 memoir 11 false 4086714 sci-fi---fantasy 11 false 4086773 travel 10 false 4086743 historical-fiction 9 false 5034302 humor 8 false 4086715 essay 5 false 4735168 science---medicine 4 false 5341422 first-reads 4 false 4086803 short-stories 4 false 3635346 reference 4 false 4086780 religion-spirituality 0 false 9170951 wishlist New Rules: Polite Musings of a Timid Observer (Audiobook) by Bill Maher]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81147170 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514Qci1NSCL._SL75_.jpg 804258 MaryJohanna http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231100636p2/804258.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/804258-maryjohanna Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:00:26 -0800 more...]]> Catch-22 (Paperback) by Joseph Heller]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80817586 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242256344s/168668.jpg 804258 MaryJohanna http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231100636p2/804258.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/804258-maryjohanna Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:32:23 -0800 The Information Officer: A Novel (Hardcover) by Mark Mills]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78192476 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IwJz7EGHL._SL75_.jpg 804258 MaryJohanna http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1231100636p2/804258.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/804258-maryjohanna Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:34:38 -0800 It tells the story of a British Information Officer on the Island of Malta in 1942 who takes it upon himself to look into the murders of at least 3 local girls.

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