false 93875 37 female Allston, MA 05/2007 02/2009 27 63 20 true 5835958 read 0 true 191046 currently-reading 43 true 191045 to-read Black Hole (Hardcover) by Charles Burns]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1461052 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169144128s/38333.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:51:02 -0800 more...]]> The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback) by Joan Didion]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1461138 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165644384s/7815.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:43:36 -0800 more...]]> The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) by Andrea Camilleri]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1461315 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172315652s/163166.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:36:27 -0800 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback) by Jung Chang]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12275473 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959961s/1848.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:08 -0800
The pov is from a Chinese woman who writes from the pov of her grandmother, mother and her own experiences.

...more...]]> Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback) by Robert D. Putnam]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1461159 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156921665s/478.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:06:47 -0800
It's an important treatise on how we have become increasingly disconnected with each other for various reasons: tv, moving a lot, lack of civic education, suburbanizati...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1461322 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174940592s/458956.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:27:48 -0800
Midnight Choir is a police drama set in Galway Ireland with bits in Dublin. It interweaves stories of cops and robbers. I thought it would follow the same cops and was a bit disappointed in that but this didn't diminish the thorough exploration of the characters.

Long story short, well written, interesting characters, I would have liked a more intimate connection to just one or two protagonists.]]> Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel (Paperback) by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2849396 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266048s/157390.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:13:08 -0700 more...]]> The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (The History of Sexuality, #1) by Michel Foucault]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1461245 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158960309s/1875.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:03:37 -0700
I follow his idea that sexuality has gotten more public even as it has gotten more repre...more...]]> Him Her Him Again The End of Him (Hardcover) by Patricia Marx]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1461644 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170982596s/80467.jpg 93875 Christine Giraud http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93875-christine-giraud Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:46:45 -0700 more...]]>