http://www.goodreads.com/user/updates_rss/330232 en-US Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:59:07 -0700 60 http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 31892636 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:59:07 -0700 Review27695804 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27695804 Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Book 1) by Tamora Pierce
]]> 31891153 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:35:40 -0700 Review27694596 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27694596 to: Under the Banner of Heaven (Paperback) by Jon Krakauer
]]> 28965138 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:14:06 -0700 Review25410925 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25410925 to: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
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]]> 28621337 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:25:17 -0700 Review25141263 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25141263 to: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (Hardcover) by M.T. Anderson
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I'm so glad that I picked this book up knowing nothing about the plot. If I had known that it could possibly be categorized a "slave narrative" I like as not wouldn't have read it.

Disturbing and beautiful, remarkable for the lovely gothic prose sustained throughout (talk about mouth joy, I found myself silently mouthing some of the passages, just to feel the weight and motion of the words, I mean, can there be a higher compliment?) it is, however, very true that this would be an upsetting read for a youth or even an overly sensitive adult.

I felt my stomach contract with injustice at times, no really, I had a physical reaction.

Also, bonus, I love that so many y/a fiction writers now will have these interludes where they expound upon the necessity and power of narrative. It's like a special treat for the avid fiction reader, that treat being elitism, and who doesn't love that? It's a club I wanna be a part of...

And who thought that sheep's guts joke was hi-larious? Good times... ]]> 27098751 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:52:26 -0700 Comment920392 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22875526 Grace's review of Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs

I'm glad you confirmed that this book is a big fat waste of time. My time is precious. ]]> 27098595 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:50:06 -0700 Comment920376 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23876141 Brooke's review of The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
by Philip Pullman

Yay! I'm so glad you read "golden compass" and loved it! I had an inkling that you would!!! ]]> 26471804 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:05:33 -0700 Review23453807 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23453807 to: The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence) by Susan Cooper
bookshelves: y-a-fiction
]]> 26373045 Sat, 31 May 2008 09:27:30 -0700 Review23376677 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23376677 Against Nature (A Rebours) (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
bookshelves: to-read
]]> 26373015 Sat, 31 May 2008 09:27:10 -0700 Review23376652 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23376652 Cosmological Eye (Paperback) by Henry Miller
bookshelves: to-read
]]> 26372945 Sat, 31 May 2008 09:26:23 -0700 Review23376597 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23376597 Herculine Barbin (Hardcover) by Michel Foucault
bookshelves: to-read
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