false 83526 26 female Mobile, AL 05/2007 12/2009 32 491 254 true 5653250 read 3 true 168655 currently-reading 233 true 168654 to-read 1 true 9323706 to-reread 107 false 5277088 unsorted 98 false 3764923 1001 79 false 1195975 own 74 false 5074226 non-fiction 62 false 5075372 fiction 53 false 5075300 catholic 38 false 5074206 fantasy 37 false 5074241 spiritual 35 false 5074214 science-fiction 21 false 5074279 young-adult 16 false 5339827 adventure 13 false 5075357 christian 10 false 5075511 short-stories 9 false 5075274 biography 9 false 5212662 children 6 false 5118096 politics 6 false 5074282 mystery 6 false 5340241 dystopia 5 false 5075495 mathematics 5 false 5075387 apologetics 4 false 5074208 noir 4 false 5075484 philosophy 3 false 5075385 history 3 false 5075272 church-documents 3 false 5074232 science 3 false 5074257 theology 3 false 5075392 bible-study 3 false 5277215 romance 3 false 5285490 russian 3 false 5075493 psychology 2 false 5075522 saints 2 false 5075284 animals 2 false 5277335 humor 1 false 5075319 encyclopedia 1 false 5277304 statistics 1 false 5277321 business 1 false 5285489 poetry 1 false 9248582 grammar 1 false 5074236 economics 1 false 5248248 mythology http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/262751-is-combining-editions-broken http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1182121826p2/220.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:51:36 -0800 All these books need to be combined, but when I tried it gave me an error message "The server responsible for combining and splitting works is currently down."
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/243130-quiz-for-new-librarians http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1182121826p2/220.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:46:37 -0800 Mothering On Perilous (Paperback) by Lucy S. Furman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82476625 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ZSbw9LrrL._SL75_.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:41:39 -0800
Fun little story. I'm just on Chapter 6.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/38089-what-do-you-do-when http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1189457607p2/970.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:12:03 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/255966-december-discussion-everything-that-rises-must-converge-flannery-o-c http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1189457607p2/970.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:33:29 -0800
I kinda stopped reviewing each story after finishing them, and just went onto reading the next one. I enjoyed this collection, although I'm not usually a fan of the short story genre. Still Flannery O'Connor can make the characters come alive in my mind in few words. These stories (most of the time) sort of show in exaggerated form the moral weaknesses that we may have.

My favorite was probably The Lame Shall Enter First, which just goes to show how we tend to be better toward strangers than toward our own family, perhaps because we seek their approval, we present this kind of facade... "facade" may not be quite the right word, since we may be sincere in wanting to help out, but we just tend to dismiss our own family, with whom we live all the time, whose "negatives" we tend to see more clearly. But when Sheppard adopted this youngster (to help out this child he perceived as smart but from poor background without opportunity), he discovered all the negatives of Rufus, and wished to be rid of him. Sheppard figured out that he should have spent more for his own child, shown him as much compassion and patience, tried to figure out what he's interested in, etc.

Well, I know for sure that the strangers think better of me than I really deserve; because it's true I tend to do more for strangers than family. I'm involved in all these activities that my parents know almost nothing of... So in a way these stories serve as a mirror in which you can see yourself in exaggerated form. They don't tell you how to change, what to do instead, but seeing the issue is half the battle ;)]]> Everything That Rises Must Converge (Paperback) by Flannery O'Connor]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77134838 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173144314s/218659.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:24:27 -0800 This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.]]> Les Misérables (Penguin Classics) by Victor Hugo]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37768500 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213467739s/33175.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:23:32 -0800 The Second One Thousand Years: Ten People Who Defined a Millennium (Paperback) by Richard John Neuhaus]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81914462 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173846755s/336005.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:42:53 -0800 God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Will Change the World (Hardcover) by John Micklethwait]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81786039 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234808640s/5416485.jpg 83526 Karina http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1221330845p2/83526.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/83526-karina Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:51:05 -0800