http://www.goodreads.com/user/updates_rss/321764 en-US Wed, 14 May 2008 08:57:52 -0700 60 http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 24906095 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:57:52 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22232356 The Asylum Dance (Paperback)
by John Burnside
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]]> 24905978 Wed, 14 May 2008 08:56:37 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/ Koeeoaddi read and liked Monica's review of The Asylum Dance:

"This book is five star material and I'm only on page 26. I've never seen poetry put on the page like this. Lots of references are Scottish but its images and themes are universal. So amazing, and I ex"   ...read more » ]]> 24897397 Wed, 14 May 2008 07:23:40 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22225431 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky
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]]> 24865376 Tue, 13 May 2008 20:00:57 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22199448 The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (Paperback)
by Niall Ferguson
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]]> 24864312 Tue, 13 May 2008 19:50:24 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show_group/29647.sneak_peak_book_compatibility_test Koeeoaddi made a comment in the Goodreads Feedback group:

Well, I'm not compatible with any of my most fabulous and respected friends. Who knew they all have such dodgy taste? (Mine, of course, is impeccable.)

Vonnegut and Sedaris seem to be major sticking points. ]]> 24841704 Tue, 13 May 2008 15:47:06 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22180695 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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]]> 24841639 Tue, 13 May 2008 15:46:27 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/ Koeeoaddi read and liked Adrianne's review of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex:

"I have never, ever, in my LIFE, met a nonfiction book I was unable to put down before. This may be because I am stupid, but I like to think it's because I'm interested in the details. Most nonfiction "   ...read more » ]]> 24810471 Tue, 13 May 2008 10:27:46 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/ Koeeoaddi read and liked brian's review of The Man in the High Castle:

"it's difficult to write about this book... the plot is simple enough: an alternate history detailing what would happen had the axis powers won the second world war. thankfully, there is very little of"   ...read more » ]]> 24792878 Tue, 13 May 2008 07:47:37 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22142403 The Boat (Hardcover)
by Nam Le
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From the NTY review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05...

" Mai, the teenage heroine of this story, realizes that she now understands why her father — who spent five years fighting the Communists and two years in a re-education camp — tried to live on the surface, in the now of the moment, not looking backward or inside:

An Excerpt from "The Boat"

“Because beneath the surface was either dread or delirium. As more and more bundles were thrown overboard she taught herself not to look — not to think of the bundles as human — she resisted the impulse to identify which families had been depleted. She seized distraction from the immediate things: the weather, the next swallow of water, the ever-forward draw of time.” ]]> 24765981 Mon, 12 May 2008 21:02:52 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/ Koeeoaddi read and liked Ginnie's review of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (American History):

"Nostalgia lies so thickly over the '80s that it's hard now to recall what Ronald W. Reagan represented to your average card-carrying liberal. Hating him then was as much an article of faith as hating "   ...read more » ]]>