Tracee's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 29 Jan 2021 05:42:34 -0800 60 Tracee's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Slouching Towards Bethlehem 7828 256 Joan Didion 0440080274 Tracee 4 4.13 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem
author: Joan Didion
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1968
rating: 4
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]]> The Annotated Dracula 72480 362 Bram Stoker Tracee 4 4.17 1897 The Annotated Dracula
author: Bram Stoker
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1897
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)]]> 10818853 Ěý
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

This book is intended for mature audiences.]]> 356 E.L. James 1612130291 Tracee 0
people should just realize that being slutty is fun.

getovazyaselveszzzxxx


slutty book club was a hit!


stop acting like your too good for this garbage people! if you watch tv- you're basically watching the same garbled drivel. just have fun with it & laugh about how bad it is. ]]> 3.68 2011 Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
author: E.L. James
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2011
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yup. i'm reading it & it's mucho slutty

people should just realize that being slutty is fun.

getovazyaselveszzzxxx


slutty book club was a hit!


stop acting like your too good for this garbage people! if you watch tv- you're basically watching the same garbled drivel. just have fun with it & laugh about how bad it is.
]]> <![CDATA[Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)]]> 12881778 551 E.L. James 1612130607 Tracee 0
that's how it always is with trilogy's & me.


1st and 3rd.

sluttyyyyyy!


stop acting like your too good for this garbage people! if you watch tv- you're basically watching the same garbled drivel. just have fun with it & laugh about how bad it is.

]]> 3.86 2012 Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
author: E.L. James
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.86
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i liked the first one the best- then this one.

that's how it always is with trilogy's & me.


1st and 3rd.

sluttyyyyyy!


stop acting like your too good for this garbage people! if you watch tv- you're basically watching the same garbled drivel. just have fun with it & laugh about how bad it is.


]]> Bared to You (Crossfire, #1) 13451045 "Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness."
""
He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily
Gideon "knew." He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each others most private wounds and desires.
The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart "]]> 360 Sylvia Day Tracee 2 4.17 2012 Bared to You (Crossfire, #1)
author: Sylvia Day
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2012
rating: 2
read at: 2012/07/19
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evidently i like sluttty books. everyone keeps asking me to read slutty books with them- so i does. the only book clubs i join are slutty ones. cause it's funny (& slutty).
]]> <![CDATA[A History of the World in 100 Objects]]> 9553383 707 Neil MacGregor 1846144132 Tracee 0 to-read 4.17 2010 A History of the World in 100 Objects
author: Neil MacGregor
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will]]> 8197735 A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds.

There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific reports as a springboard for each island, providing information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore. With stunning full-color maps and an air of mysterious adventure, Atlas of Remote Island is perfect for the traveler or romantic in all of us.]]> 144 Judith Schalansky 014311820X Tracee 3 4.28 2009 Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
author: Judith Schalansky
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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]]> A Backward Glance 5261
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James.

In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance “as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels.� It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton’s fiction.]]> 385 Edith Wharton 0684847558 Tracee 0 to-read 3.81 1934 A Backward Glance
author: Edith Wharton
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1934
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose]]> 6772286 The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, Debbie Ford delivers her most practical and prescriptive book yet —a 21–day, life-changing program for spiritual renewal, emotional transformation, and reconnection with the soul’s deepest purpose. Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Good People Do Bad Things, offers a unique program designed to clear our minds and hearts from the negative thoughts and feelings that build up over time and too often guide our decisions and behaviors.]]> 256 Debbie Ford 0061783641 Tracee 3 3.74 2009 The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose
author: Debbie Ford
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards]]> 12468635
Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on a hidden wealth of discovery, drama, and surprising fact to cut through the fog that surrounds contemporary yoga and to show—for the first time—what is uplifting and beneficial and what is delusional, flaky, and dangerous. At heart, it illuminates the risks and rewards.

Broad describes yoga as a burgeoning global industry that attracts not only curious scientists but millions of true believers and charismatic hustlers. He takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of unknown yoga that goes from old archives in Calcutta to world capitals of medical research, from storied ashrams to spotless laboratories, from sweaty yoga studios with master teachers to the cozy offices of yoga healers. In the process, he shatters myths, lays out unexpected benefits, and offers a compelling vision of how the discipline can be improved.]]> 298 William J. Broad 1451641427 Tracee 4 crazy-yoga-books-i-adore 3.72 2012 The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
author: William J. Broad
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness]]> 170163
Now with Your Body Speaks Your Mind, Deb Shapiro―author of The Body Mind Workbook and Unconditional Love ―shows you a practical way to learn the language of your body so you can understand how your thoughts and feelings directly affect your physical health.

The body shows us what we are unconsciously ignoring,denying,or repressing, she says. With her breakthrough book, readers learn:

A system-by-system guide to your body that reveals what it is telling you about yourself
� A cross-referenced index of symptomatic illnesses, from headaches to pneumonia, and the emotional imbalances they symbolize
� Creative visualization and meditation techniques to enhance your ability to listen to, communicate with, and heal your body, and more

Healing is a continual journey―one of embracing ourselves ever more deeply, explains Deb Shapiro. Your Body Speaks Your Mind takes you on that journey, deepening your relationship with your own mind and body. Revised and updated UK bestseller.

This product can be shipped within the US and Canada only.]]> 347 Debbie Shapiro 1591794188 Tracee 0 currently-reading 3.98 1996 Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness
author: Debbie Shapiro
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)]]> 11857408 Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy.]]> 532 E.L. James 1612130585 Tracee 3
if you can't beat them join'em people.

or just be slutty. ]]> 3.84 2011 Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
author: E.L. James
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average rating: 3.84
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not as slutty as the 1st one. but slutty enough.

if you can't beat them join'em people.

or just be slutty.
]]> <![CDATA[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose]]> 76334 With his bestselling spiritual guide "The Power of Now," Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived ?in the now.? In "A New Earth," Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. "The Power of Now" was a question-and-answer handbook. "A New Earth" has been written as a traditional narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, "A New Earth" is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life?and for building a better world.]]> 316 Eckhart Tolle 0452287588 Tracee 5 4.15 2005 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
author: Eckhart Tolle
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles]]> 10309216 272 Gabrielle Bernstein 0307887405 Tracee 4 3.79 2011 Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles
author: Gabrielle Bernstein
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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i really loved this book! i read alot of books like this because i love life. and yes there are premises & points that you most likely have heard or read about before- but who doesn't love to hear good advice over and over again! the author is passionate, genuine & sincere. a sign for a good book in my world is if i read it & immediately force someone else to read it. the ultimate sign of a good book in my world is also when I order it for them on amazon and have it shipped to them unknowingly. i did both of these requisites. this is a good book! lighten up & read it.
]]> <![CDATA[The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation]]> 95747 Thich Nhat Hanhs enkla, rättframma stil går rakt in i hjärtat och förmedlar en stark känsla av sinnesnärvaro. Han vet hur man gör för att släppa taget om alla tankar som driver oss hit och dit och hindrar oss från att vara närvarande i stunden.
Praktiska övningar varvas med enkla berättelser ur vardagen som visar att vi alltid kan välja att fokusera på det väsentliga och därmed fånga nuet. Thich Nhat Hanh lär oss att diska varje kopp och tallrik varsamt, som om de vore heliga ting. På köpet lär vi oss att se värdet i vardagliga göromål och finna ro i oss själva.
Han delar också med sig av meditationsövningar som leder oss inåt mot vårt autentiska jag. Vi är större än vad vi tror och genom att iaktta och släppa taget om negativa tankar och föreställningar kan vi så småningom leva ett mer medvetet och glädjefyllt liv.]]> 140 Thich Nhat Hanh 0807012394 Tracee 0 crazy-yoga-books-i-adore 4.20 1975 The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
author: Thich Nhat Hanh
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain]]> 11094430 290 David Eagleman 0670063924 Tracee 3 love-my-pop-science-books 3.61 2011 Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
author: David Eagleman
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> The Marriage Plot 10964693
As Madeleine tries to understand why "it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth century France," real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy - suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old "friend" Mitchell Grammaticus - who's been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange - resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.

Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology laboratory on Cape Cod, but can't escape the secret responsible for Leonard's seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love.

Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.]]> 406 Jeffrey Eugenides 0374203059 Tracee 0 3.46 2011 The Marriage Plot
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.46
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]]> Life 9439303 576 Keith Richards 0297854399 Tracee 0 non-fiction 3.88 2010 Life
author: Keith Richards
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit]]> 10804064 272 Ana T. Forrest 0061864242 Tracee 3 crazy-yoga-books-i-adore 3.82 2011 Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit
author: Ana T. Forrest
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul]]> 594396 The long-awaited, complete guide to the popular, vigorous American method of yoga that is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom and scriptures
“In this day and age of health and fitness trends, it is assuring to know that Sharon and David encourage their students to draw inspiration from the classical texts of Yoga and timeless scriptural sources. What I appreciate so much about David and Sharon is how they help their Yoga students to understand and appreciate the wisdom of all the great saints and jivamuktas who have contributed to raising consciousness. Ultimately, it is Self-Realization, that is the true goal of Yoga.�
–SRI SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA

Creators of the extremely popular Jivamukti Yoga method and cofounders of the New York City studios where it is taught, Sharon Gannon and David Life present their unique style of yoga for the first time in book form. As they explain their intensely physical and spiritual system of flowing postures, they provide inspiring expert instruction to guide you in your practice.

Unlike many books about yoga, Jivamukti Yoga focuses not only on the physical postures but also on how they evolved–the origins of the practices in yoga’s ancient sacred texts and five-thousand-year-old traditions–the psychotherapeutic benefits that accrue with a steady practice, and the spiritual power that is set free when energy flows throughout the mind and body. Jivamukti Yoga, which means “soul liberation,� guides your body and soul into spiritual freedom, physical strength, peace of mind, better health, and Self-realization–the ultimate goal of any practice. Gannon and Life help you understand each of the practices that comprise the yoga path to enlightenment:
´ˇ±á±ő˛Ńł§´ˇâ€�The Way of Compassion: choosing nonviolence, respecting all life, practicing vegetarianism, living free of prejudice
´ˇł§´ˇ±·´ˇâ€�The Way of Connection to the Earth: postures and sequences, breathing, transforming energy, understanding the bandhas
°­´ˇ¸é˛Ń´ˇâ€�The Way of Action: creating good karma, giving thanks
±·´ˇ¶Ů´ˇ˛Ńâ€�The Way of Sacred Music: appreciating the sacred sounds of yoga
˛Ń·ˇ¶Ů±ő°Ő´ˇ°Ő±ő°ż±·â€�The Way of the Witness: how to sit still and move inward
µţ±á´ˇ°­°Ő±őâ€�The Way of Devotion to God: living with love, grace, and peace

Whatever yoga you practice, Jivamukti Yoga will help you to strengthen and deepen that practice and lead you onto a path of spiritual clarity and self-discovery.

“If there is only one book you read about the practice of Yoga, this should be the one. Sharon and David are deeply dedicated students and teachers of Yoga who have the rare capacity to translate their profound understanding to the reader. This book is for anyone who wishes to find transformation through Yoga. I’m grateful for their work and teaching.�
–STEPHAN RECHTSCHAFFEN, MD
Co-founder & CEO, Omega Institute
]]> 320 Sharon Gannon 0345442083 Tracee 5 4.22 2002 Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul
author: Sharon Gannon
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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Love me, love my crazy yoga books. A great thorough book on yoga & meditation. Well done.
]]> The Cookbook Collector 7632696 USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment.

Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech; twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley; romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much—as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way.

Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.]]> 394 Allegra Goodman 0385340850 Tracee 1 3.31 2010 The Cookbook Collector
author: Allegra Goodman
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2010
rating: 1
read at: 2011/02/07
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here we go fiction! i'm back. I tried two years ago to return with the Maytrees by annie dillard but it wasn't all that triumphant as I hoped...
]]> Lit 6340016
Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars� Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.

The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that “reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art." The New York Times Book Review calls it “a master class on the art of the memoir� in its Top 10 Books of 2009 Citation. Michiko Kakutani calls it “a book that lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go� in her New York Times review. And Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years."

In addition to the New York Times, Lit was named a Best Book of 2009 by the New Yorker (Reviewer Favorite), Entertainment Weekly (Top 10), Time (Top 10), the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Seattle Times.]]> 386 Mary Karr 0060596988 Tracee 3 3.92 2009 Lit
author: Mary Karr
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 3
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]]> Machu Picchu 237610 The Heights of Machu Picchu which has been described as one of his greatest works. In addition, novelist Isabel Allende contributes a prologue. The book is a bilingual edition and translator Stephen Kessler has created an English translation of Neruda's Spanish poem.]]> 128 Pablo Neruda 0821227041 Tracee 4 4.09 1950 Machu Picchu
author: Pablo Neruda
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1950
rating: 4
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]]> Succulent Wild Woman 164836
I explore love, sexuality, romance, money, fat, fear and creativity. It's a little bit like reading my diary -- with permission. Succulence is powerFull! and so are we as women.]]> 184 SARK 068483376X Tracee 4 4.15 1997 Succulent Wild Woman
author: SARK
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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i'll get hell for this one...but this book is good. Sark is honest, fun & out of her mind in the good way. I want to go to her magic cottage (which I knew was in San Francisco! haha). don't even try to read it if you don't like yourself or are prone to headaches.
]]> <![CDATA[A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe]]> 7527320
Overturning more than twenty-five centuries of scientific thought, award-winning physicist Marcelo Gleiser argues that this quest for a Theory of Everything is fundamentally misguided, and he explains the volcanic implications this ideological shift has for humankind. All the evidence points to a scenario in which everything emerges from fundamental imperfections, primordial asymmetries in matter and time, cataclysmic accidents in Earth’s early life, and duplication errors in the genetic code. Imbalance spurs creation. Without asymmetries and imperfections, the universe would be filled with nothing but smooth radiation.


A Tear at the Edge of Creation calls for nothing less than a new "humancentrism" to reflect our position in the universal order. All life, but intelligent life in particular, is a rare and precious accident. Our presence here has no meaning outside of itself, but it does have meaning. The unplanned complexity of humankind is all the more beautiful for its improbability. It’s time for science to let go of the old aesthetic that labels perfection beautiful and holds that "beauty is truth." It’s time to look at the evidence without centuries of monotheistic baggage. In this lucid, down-to-earth narrative, Gleiser walks us through the basic and cutting-edge science that fueled his own transformation from unifier to doubter—a fascinating scientific quest that led him to a new understanding of what it is to be human.]]> 304 Marcelo Gleiser 1439108323 Tracee 3 love-my-pop-science-books 3.77 2010 A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
author: Marcelo Gleiser
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.77
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]]> <![CDATA[Veinte poemas de amor y una canciĂłn desesperada]]> 6449966 208 Pablo Neruda 8437624665 Tracee 5 4.17 1924 Veinte poemas de amor y una canciĂłn desesperada
author: Pablo Neruda
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1924
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On]]> 4598766
In this book, Anneli Rufus identifies an intriguing aspect of our Many of us are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship, career, or town, or just with bad habits we can't seem to quit, we even say we want to make a change, but . . . Merging interviews, personal anecdotes, and cultural criticism, Stuck is a wise and passionate exploration of the dreams we hold dearest for ourselves-and the road to actually achieving them.

When faced with the possibility of change, our minds can play tricks on us. We tell I can't make it . Or, It's not worth the effort . How is it that in a time of unprecedented freedom and opportunity, so many of us feel utterly powerless and unsure? In this book, Rufus exposes a complex network of causes for our immobilization- from fear and denial to powerful messages in popular culture or mass media that conspire to convince us that we're helpless in the face of our cravings. But there can be a light at the end of the Rufus also tells the stories of people who have managed to become unstuck and of others who, after much reflection, have decided that where they are is best. After all, she writes, "what looks to you like a rut, others might say is true absorption in a topic, a relation­ship, a career, a pursuit, a place. What looks to you like bore­dom, others call commitment. And even contentment."

A brilliant glimpse into what truly motivates-or doesn't motivate-us, Stuck will inspire you to take a look at yourself in an entirely new light.]]> 336 Anneli Rufus 1585426679 Tracee 0 to-read 3.04 2008 Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On
author: Anneli Rufus
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average rating: 3.04
book published: 2008
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]]> Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang 6472246 Chelsea Lately and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.

Get ready for big laughs as Chelsea Handler lets loose with more comic personal essays. In this new, no-holds-barred account of life on the ridiculous side, Chelsea mines the wealth of material that is her family, her sex life, her career, and her distinctively outrageous worldview. Here is young Chelsea discovering "The Feeling" during a third-grade sleepover and getting shafted by clueless parents over Cabbage Patch dolls...and grown-up Chelsea at the mercy of the remote control, Lean Pockets, and Sex and the City --but still managing to convince her boyfriend that there are Swiss Army knives in the soles of her $16,000 shoes. Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irreverent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment.

]]> 244 Chelsea Handler 0446552445 Tracee 3 3.83 2010 Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
author: Chelsea Handler
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.83
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]]> <![CDATA[Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea]]> 40173
In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she's convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn's daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her... only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations.

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.]]> 264 Chelsea Handler 0061173398 Tracee 2 3.85 2008 Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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]]> The Heart of a Woman 5160 The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew.

Her compassion and commitment lead her to respond to the fiery times by becoming the northern coordinator of Martin Luther King's history-making quest. A tempestuous, earthy woman, she promises her heart to one man only to have it stolen, virtually on her wedding day, by a passionate African freedom fighter.

Filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous characters, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou's eloquent prose her fondest dreams, deepest disappointments, and her dramatically tender relationship with her rebellious teenage son. Vulnerable, humorous, tough, Maya speaks with an intimate awareness of the heart within all of us.]]> 288 Maya Angelou 0375500723 Tracee 0 to-read 4.23 1981 The Heart of a Woman
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]]> <![CDATA[The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think]]> 6061718 From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.

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Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the "male reality" is fundamentally different from the female one. Exploring the latest breakthroughs in male psychology and neurology with her trademark accessibility and candor, she reveals that the male brain:


ĚýĚýĚýĚý *is a lean, mean, problem-solving machine. Faced with a personal problem, a man will use his analytical brain structures, not his emotional ones, to find a solution.Ěý

ĚýĚýĚýĚý *thrives under competition, instinctively plays rough and is obsessed with rank and hierarchy.Ěý

ĚýĚýĚýĚý *has an area for sexual pursuit that is 2.5 times larger than the female brain, consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts.

ĚýĚýĚýĚý *experiences such a massive increase in testosterone at puberty that he perceive others' faces to be more aggressive.


The Male Brain finally overturns the stereotypes. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own.


Praise for The Female Brain:

"Louann Brizendine has done a great favor for every man who wants to understand the puzzling women in his life. A breezy and enlightening guide to women and a must-read for men."

—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

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Ěý]]> 271 Louann Brizendine 0767927532 Tracee 2 love-my-pop-science-books 3.79 2009 The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think
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]]> Super Sad True Love Story 7334201 The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.

In a very near future—oh, let’s say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century—he totally loves books (or “printed, bound media artifacts,� as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.

After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our “ancient dork� effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny’s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York’s Central Park, the city’s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He’s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect’s “hotness� and “sustainability� with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.

Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.
Ěý]]> 331 Gary Shteyngart 1400066409 Tracee 0 to-read 3.45 2010 Super Sad True Love Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly]]> 33313 A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts

Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,� by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now iconic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation and megabestseller. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.

Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade, laying out Bourdain’s more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine. Including a handwritten introduction and annotations done by Bourdain about a decade after the book was originally published, this edition also features previously unpublished photos to accompany the now-classic text.]]> 312 Anthony Bourdain 0060899220 Tracee 1 4.17 2000 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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ugh! i'm sorry but this book gave so many cooks and chefs the license to be total pricks in the name of "kitchen confidential" i don't care if you are busy or in a 1,000 degree kitchen rush. if you are a total prick then, you are most likely a total prick all of the time! I don't mind A. Bourdain, i'm just not drinking the kool aid and I don't think this book is eye opening...
]]> The Glass Castle 7445 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.]]> 288 Jeannette Walls 074324754X Tracee 4 4.32 2005 The Glass Castle
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this book is great! I love the father. He is a total nightamare! the slang he incorporates is priceless. Read it on a train ride to NYC, perfect experience, LOL'ing the whole way! I love memoir's. embellished or not...
]]> <![CDATA[The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference]]> 2612 The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.]]> 301 Malcolm Gladwell 0316346624 Tracee 3 non-fiction, favorites 4.01 2002 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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they made us read this for work when I worked in children's publishing. it was a "gift". everyone seems to <3 it. I loved all the talk about hush puppies and the classification of people. Maven, connector, etc...
]]> Learning to Love You More 980691 160 Harrell Fletcher 3791337335 Tracee 0 4.15 2007 Learning to Love You More
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cool. not as cool as I had hoped! but most def cool!
]]> <![CDATA[How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like]]> 8163148 Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking new vision of the pleasures of everyday life.

The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends over four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. Young children enjoy playing with imaginary friends and can be comforted by security blankets. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents, and go to movies that make them cry.

In this fascinating and witty account, Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions, and tastes, covering everything from the animal instincts of sex and food to the uniquely human taste for art, music, and stories. Drawing on insights from child development, philosophy, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it.]]> 304 Paul Bloom 0393066320 Tracee 2 love-my-pop-science-books 3.74 2010 How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
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]]> <![CDATA[Forking Fantastic!: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party]]> 6677108
Twice a month, two veterans of the New York food world prepare a big meal in a tiny kitchen, serving heaping plates of spectacular cuisine to twenty diverse people (or more). Friends old and new at their Sunday Night Dinners supper club make spirited conversation while feasting on sumptuous cooking. Never obsessed with perfect place settings or fussy details, Zora O'Neill and Tamara Reynolds instead focus on the practical joys of down-to-earth entertaining at home. InĚý Forking Fantastic! , they showcase their very best recipes for making mouthwatering dinners-and for having the time of your life.Ěý

With a healthy dose of irreverent attitude and infectious spirit, here Tamara and Zora take the pressure off and encourage us to reclaim the lost art of cooking delectable meals for the masses.Ěý Forking Fantastic! Ěý
Food-forward but always realistic, Tamara and Zora celebrate seasonal, local ingredients while also extolling cornbread mix and the frozen pea. Quirky, funny and fresh, this book arms intimidated cooks everywhere with the courage, confidence and tools they need to have people over for the sake of food and community, not for the prize of being the best hostess on the block. A manifesto for bringing back a time-honored ritual one mind-blowing feast at a time,Ěý Forking Fantastic! Ěýmakes dinner parties rock.]]> 256 Zora O'Neill 1592405053 Tracee 0 to-read 3.94 2009 Forking Fantastic!: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party
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]]> <![CDATA[The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea]]> 7085440 From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare has been obsessed with whales. Journeying through human and natural history, The Whale is the result of his voyage of discovery into the heart of this obsession and the book that inspired it: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Taking us deep into their domain, Hoare shows us these mysterious creatures as they have never been seen before. Following in Ishmael's footsteps, he explores the troubled history of man and whale; visits the historic whaling locales of New Bedford, Nantucket, and the Azores; and traces the whale's cultural history from Jonah to Free Willy. Winner of the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, The Whale is an unforgettable and often moving attempt to explain why these strange and beautiful animals still exert such a powerful hold on our imagination.

]]> 464 Philip Hoare 0061976210 Tracee 0 to-read 3.83 2008 The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
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]]> Eat, Pray, Love 19501
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.

To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly.

An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.]]> 368 Elizabeth Gilbert 0143038419 Tracee 1 ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and I'm pretty dippydoo daaaaahhh]]> 3.64 2006 Eat, Pray, Love
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Tracee 5 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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i'm re reading this bad barry this summer for sure!
]]> <![CDATA[In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto]]> 315425 The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.,,,]]> 205 Michael Pollan 1594201455 Tracee 3 4.07 2008 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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good info. but not really a "book" you can read it while standing in the bookstore.
]]> Assassination Vacation 3110 Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other—a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.

From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue—it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and—the author's favorite� historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are all kinds of lighter diversions along the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.]]> 258 Sarah Vowell 074326004X Tracee 3 3.93 2005 Assassination Vacation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary]]> 25019 The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.]]> 242 Simon Winchester 0060839783 Tracee 4 3.84 1998 The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 18315 124 Monsieur Oscar Wilde 1420925288 Tracee 5 favorites 3.94 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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]]> <![CDATA[Sonnets To Madness and Other Misfortunes]]> 1260379 66 Francisco X. AlarcĂłn 0887394507 Tracee 0 to-read 4.12 2001 Sonnets To Madness and Other Misfortunes
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]]> 100 Love Sonnets 11339 232 Pablo Neruda 0292760280 Tracee 4 4.42 1959 100 Love Sonnets
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]]> Winter Garden 44068 Bloomsbury Review as a Book of the Year and called one of the "most valuable Neruda books we have today." In this lyrical suite, the poet meditates on his imminent death, embraces solitude, and returns to nature as a source of regeneration. Bilingual with introduction.]]> 96 Pablo Neruda 1556591675 Tracee 4 4.15 1974 Winter Garden
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]]> Selected Odes 44056 388 Pablo Neruda 0520227085 Tracee 3 4.39 1990 Selected Odes
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]]> <![CDATA[Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems]]> 162351 284 Pablo Neruda 0807064890 Tracee 5 4.19 1970 Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems]]> 5931

This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alaistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems. A bilingual edition, with English on one side of the page, the original Spanish on the other. This selection sets the standard for a general, high--quality introduction to Neruda’s complete oeuvre.

Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

]]> 200 Pablo Neruda 0872864286 Tracee 5 4.43 1979 The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
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]]> Collected Poems 22990
"And I who was walking
with the earth at my waist,
saw two snowy eagles
and a naked girl.
The one was the other
and the girl was neither."
--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"

Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. Christopher Maurer, a leading Lorca scholar and editor, has substantially revised FSG's earlier edition of the collected poems of this charismatic and complicated figure, who--as Maurer says in his illuminating Introduction--"spoke unforgettably of all that most interests us: the otherness of nature, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death."
]]> 960 Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca 0374126151 Tracee 5 favorites 4.46 1962 Collected Poems
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]]> The Selected Poems 22992 The Selected Poems of Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca has introduced generations of readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences--Spanish folk traditions from his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and his friends the surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel--stream throughout Lorca's work. Poets represented here as translators are as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith, and W.S. Merwin.]]> 186 Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca 0811216225 Tracee 4 4.35 1936 The Selected Poems
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]]> The Complete Poems 47730 Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.]]> 622 Anne Sexton 0395957761 Tracee 5 4.29 1981 The Complete Poems
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]]> Anne Sexton: A Biography 47731 411 Diane Wood Middlebrook 0679741828 Tracee 4 4.18 1991 Anne Sexton: A Biography
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]]> <![CDATA[Three One-act Plays: Riverside Drive/Old Saybrook/Central Park West]]> 55371
Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,� “Old Saybrook,� and “Central Park West� are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do).

These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allen’s continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they’re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception—all of it revealed in Allen’s quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.]]> 224 Woody Allen 0812972449 Tracee 3 3.71 2003 Three One-act Plays: Riverside Drive/Old Saybrook/Central Park West
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]]> <![CDATA[Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories]]> 263002 400 Woody Allen 0394712293 Tracee 5 favorites 4.37 1982 Four Films: Annie Hall/Interiors/Manhattan/Stardust Memories
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]]> Importance Being Earnest 663136
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!]]> 0 Oscar Wilde 0898454018 Tracee 5 4.27 1895 Importance Being Earnest
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average rating: 4.27
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rating: 5
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 2263800 208 Oscar Wilde 1604244674 Tracee 4 4.03 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
author: Oscar Wilde
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average rating: 4.03
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You]]> 7187116 208 Kelly Cutrone 0061930938 Tracee 0 to-read 3.76 2009 If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
author: Kelly Cutrone
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.76
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]]> <![CDATA[Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life]]> 1267659 192 Judith Hanson Lasater 0962713880 Tracee 4 crazy-yoga-books-i-adore 4.23 1999 Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life
author: Judith Hanson Lasater
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> The Female Brain 23968 304 Louann Brizendine 0767920090 Tracee 4 love-my-pop-science-books 3.84 2006 The Female Brain
author: Louann Brizendine
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.84
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything]]> 6758423 When Food Is Love. Now, two decades later,Ěýhere isĚýher masterwork: WOMEN FOOD AND GOD.

The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated or wise or enlightened you believe you are, how you eat tells all. The world is on your plate. When you begin to understand what prompts you to use food as a way to numb or distract yourself, the process takes you deeper into realms of spirit and to the bright center of your own life. Rather than getting rid of or instantly changing your conflicted relationship with food, Women Food and God is about welcoming what is already here, and contacting the part of yourself that is already whole—divinity itself.]]> 224 Geneen Roth 1416543074 Tracee 2 3.66 2009 Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
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name: Tracee
average rating: 3.66
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rating: 2
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]]> Frankenstein 4803264
Since 1818 Frankenstein has been associated with scientists who are consumed with their experiments, and oblivious to the repercussions. Among them are the brains behind the nuclear arms race, scientists who create super bacteria, and laboratories that experiment with artificial black holes. But most notably is the area of science devoted to gene manipulation, both in genetically modified foods and human cloning. Frankenstein has much to teach us in a world where we constantly test the limits of science and human ambition.]]> 168 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 098092104X Tracee 5 3.68 1818 Frankenstein
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book published: 1818
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals]]> 3109 What should we have for dinner? For omnivore like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma. When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffered by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.
The Omnivore's Dilemma is groundbreaking book, in which one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves?
To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating. His absorbing narrative takes us from Iowa cornfields to food-science laboratories, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. Each time Pollan sits down to a meal, he deploys his unique blend of personal and investigative journalism to trace the origins of everything consumed, revealing what we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods and flavors reflects our evolutionary inheritance.
The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. Ultimately, this is a book as much about visionary solutions as it is about problems, and Pollan contends that, when it comes to food, doing the right thing often turns out to be the tastiest thing an eater can do. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore’s Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating. For anyone who reads it, dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same.]]> 450 Michael Pollan 1594200823 Tracee 4 4.18 2006 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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]]> A Field Guide to Getting Lost 76479 Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.]]> 209 Rebecca Solnit 0143037242 Tracee 3 3.97 2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost
author: Rebecca Solnit
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.97
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rating: 3
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]]> The Help 4667024
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.


Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here]]> 464 Kathryn Stockett 0399155341 Tracee 2 4.46 2009 The Help
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i tried to be a normal person and read what normal people were reading. i see how it can be a nice read for most people. i suppose.
]]> <![CDATA[Wanderlust: A History of Walking]]> 78287 356 Rebecca Solnit 1859843816 Tracee 3 3.91 2001 Wanderlust: A History of Walking
author: Rebecca Solnit
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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]]> Us: Americans Talk About Love 6929510

From the wards of New Orleans to the cornfields of Iowa to the slopes of Colorado, from the raves of Los Angeles to the hollows of Appalachia and the canyons of Wall Street, Americans talk about love. Tortured teenagers, free-spirited octogenarians, anxious Navy wives, blue-blooded bohemians, horny-but-chaste pastors, and multiply-partnered cosmopolitans tell extraordinary tales of broken hearts; sexual infidelities; improbable reconciliations; hidden, forbidden, preposterous love; and endurance against all odds. These are America’s real love stories—wise and foolish, comic and tragic, full of surprises and straight from the heart.

]]> 448 John Bowe 0865479291 Tracee 3 non-fiction 3.49 2010 Us: Americans Talk About Love
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average rating: 3.49
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements]]> 7247854
The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. "The Disappearing Spoon" masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, discovery, and alchemy, from the big bang through the end of time.


* Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.]]> 394 Sam Kean 0316051640 Tracee 0 to-read 3.92 2010 The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
author: Sam Kean
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World]]> 1260005 A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world's most humble fruit

To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious; nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the 'apple' consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn't it?). Entire Central American nations have been said to rise and fall over the banana.

But the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Today's yellow banana, the Cavendish, is increasingly threatened by such a blight -- and there's no cure in sight.

Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) -- ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.]]> 281 Dan Koeppel 1594630380 Tracee 3 non-fiction 3.80 2007 Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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name: Tracee
average rating: 3.80
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rating: 3
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]]> Middlesex 2187 Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.]]> 529 Jeffrey Eugenides 0312422156 Tracee 3 4.03 2002 Middlesex
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]]> 2195464
Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.]]> 188 Haruki Murakami Tracee 3 3.87 2007 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> The Nimrod Flip-Out 60429 219 Etgar Keret 0099497220 Tracee 4 3.86 2002 The Nimrod Flip-Out
author: Etgar Keret
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> Woody Allen on Woody Allen 55369 376 Woody Allen 0802142036 Tracee 2 4.01 1993 Woody Allen on Woody Allen
author: Woody Allen
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1993
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry]]> 5150897
Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person--their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

In Leanne Shapton's marvelously inventive and invented auction catalog, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (who aren't real people, but might as well be). Through photographs of the couple's personal effects--the usual auction items (jewelry, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pajamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks)--the story of a failed love affair vividly (and cleverly) emerges. From first meeting to final separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and appreciate.

In an earlier work, Was She Pretty?, Shapton, a talented artist and illustrator, subtly explored the seemingly simple yet powerfully complicated nature of sexual jealousy. In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris--a very different yet equally original book--she invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to consider the art we make of our private lives.

]]> 144 Leanne Shapton 0374175306 Tracee 3 3.93 2009 Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
author: Leanne Shapton
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"]]> 845977 A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace.

Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children.]]> 300 Marianne Williamson 0060927488 Tracee 4 but it really has some amazing insights. It's like a gateway drug into positive thinking. ]]> 4.25 1992 A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
author: Marianne Williamson
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at: 2009/01/01
date added: 2009/06/06
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review:
another yoga training book.
but it really has some amazing insights. It's like a gateway drug into positive thinking.
]]> Safe Suicide 2964712
By turns lyrical, quirky, confessional, and experimental in form, Henry's essays build into an affirming and generous vision. While addiction, the uses of imagination, a passion for literature, and issues of heart and soul are key motifs, a bungee jump becomes Henry's central metaphor: "isn't this life? isn't this art? We live and trust in our safe suicides."]]> 189 Dewitt Henry 1597091006 Tracee 4 It's nice when you can really read someone's voice. He tells his story well ]]> 4.41 2008 Safe Suicide
author: Dewitt Henry
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2008/11/14
date added: 2009/06/06
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i give this 4 stars because this was my professor. and he gave me an A. so I give him an A-.
It's nice when you can really read someone's voice. He tells his story well
]]> Memoirs of a Geisha 930
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.]]> 434 Arthur Golden 0739326228 Tracee 4 fiction-beauties
so good. then I went to japan and learned a more authentic storyline.
haha! what a brat. It sucks starting a sentence out with "then i went to japan" but it's true

still a really good book. ]]> 4.07 1997 Memoirs of a Geisha
author: Arthur Golden
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2000/02/16
date added: 2009/06/06
shelves: fiction-beauties
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i loved this book in my early 20's

so good. then I went to japan and learned a more authentic storyline.
haha! what a brat. It sucks starting a sentence out with "then i went to japan" but it's true

still a really good book.
]]> <![CDATA[Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing]]> 832543 Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to energy healing reveals the hidden stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that cause illness.Ěý

Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners, internationally acclaimed medical intuitive Caroline Myss, one of the "hottest new voices in the alternative health/spirituality scene" (Publishers Weekly). Based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine, Dr. Myss's work shows how every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding areas of the human body.

Anatomy of the Spirit also presents Dr. Myss's breakthrough model of the body's seven centers of spiritual and physical power, in which she synthesizes the ancient wisdom of three spiritual traditions-the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life-to demonstrate the seven stages through which everyone must pass in the search for higher consciousness and spiritual maturity. With this model, Dr. Myss shows how you can develop your own latent powers of intuition as you simultaneously cultivate your personal power and spiritual growth.

By teaching you to see your body and spirit in a new way, Anatomy of the Spirit provides you with the tools for spiritual maturity and physical wholeness that will change your life.]]> 302 Caroline Myss 0609800140 Tracee 4
my life is forever changed. so into this :)]]> 4.15 2011 Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
author: Caroline Myss
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2009/03/01
date added: 2009/06/05
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this book is pretty amazing. a slippery slope positive thinking, hippy, rabbit hole of books I read during yoga training. This one is about an intuitive doctor, who can actually diagnose patients by their energetic reading. I also find it horrifying (in a good way) how she links guilt, anger, old feelings with disease later in life. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh crap.

my life is forever changed. so into this :)
]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man]]> 99442 The Secret Life of Plants includes remarkable information about plants as lie detectors and plants as ecological sentinels; it describes their ability to adapt to human wishes, their response to music, their curative powers, and their ability to communicate with man. Authors Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird suggest that the most far-reaching revolution of the 20th century � one that could save or destroy the planet � may come from the bottom of your garden.]]> 402 Peter Tompkins 0060915870 Tracee 3 not really my style. but still informative. ]]> 3.99 1973 The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
author: Peter Tompkins
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1973
rating: 3
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this is interesting but kind of repetitive.
not really my style. but still informative.
]]> <![CDATA[21 Dog Years: A Cube Dweller's Tale]]> 215017 You'll meet Warren, the cowboy of customer service, capable of verbally hog-tying even the most abusive customer; Amazon employee #5, a computer gamer who spends at least six hours a day locked in his office killing goblins but is worth a cool $300 million; and Jean-Michele, Daisey's girlfriend and sparring partner, who tries to keep him grounded, even as dot-com mania seduces them both.
Punctuated by Daisey's hysterically honest fictional missives to CEO Jeff Bezos, 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak -- a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity.]]> 240 Mike Daisey 074323815X Tracee 3 non-fiction
Seriously though- go see him live if you ever get the chance.


This book is ok. Go see him perform instead.]]> 3.44 2002 21 Dog Years: A Cube Dweller's Tale
author: Mike Daisey
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2008/04/01
date added: 2009/06/05
shelves: non-fiction
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I think Mike Daisey is a great monologuist. His wit is priceless. Let's see if me loves his narrative in my own reading voice.

Seriously though- go see him live if you ever get the chance.


This book is ok. Go see him perform instead.
]]> The Year of Magical Thinking 7815
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."]]> 227 Joan Didion 1400078431 Tracee 4 non-fiction, favorites
Good job established writer lady!]]> 3.94 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking
author: Joan Didion
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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It is a good sign when I get jealous of someone's prose.

Good job established writer lady!
]]> The House of the Spirits 9328
The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.]]> 448 Isabel Allende 0553383809 Tracee 3 favorites 4.26 1982 The House of the Spirits
author: Isabel Allende
name: Tracee
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1982
rating: 3
read at: 2001/01/01
date added: 2008/03/08
shelves: favorites
review:
nice story. best as a tattered up old paperback read on a trip.
]]> She’s Come Undone 5203
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.]]> 465 Wally Lamb 0671021001 Tracee 1 3.91 1992 She’s Come Undone
author: Wally Lamb
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1992
rating: 1
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date added: 2008/03/08
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i just can't enjoy reading about someone binge eating...sorry. good job Wally Lamb- are you sure you're not really an overweight woman?
]]> Fear of Flying 9654 The groundbreaking #1 New York Times Bestseller—updated for the 50th Anniversary with a New Foreword by Molly Jong-Fast and a New Introduction by Taffy Brodesser-Akner!

“The boundary-breaking novel that redefined sexuality.”�O Magazine

Isadora Wing is tired. Tired of being psychoanalyzed. Tired of grad school. Tired of fighting with her husband. Tired of having unfulfilled desires. She thinks she knows what she's searching for and how to achieve it. But her quest to engage in no-strings-attached sex quickly shifts into a journey of self-discovery that will leave her questioning her own mind, her ideals, and what she truly wants in life....

Originally published in 1973, the ground-breaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. It fueled fantasies, ignited debates, and introduced a notorious new phrase to the English language. Now, after fifty years, this revolutionary novel still stands as a timeless tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood.

“Smart, bold, bracing and, importantly, extremely funny.”—Meg Wolitzer]]> 461 Erica Jong Tracee 4 3.47 1973 Fear of Flying
author: Erica Jong
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.47
book published: 1973
rating: 4
read at: 2001/01/01
date added: 2008/03/08
shelves: books-that-english-majors-shouldn-t, favorites
review:
self absorbed. typical narcissistic fiction. good!
]]> <![CDATA[Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls]]> 159760
Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence, Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.
]]> 293 Mary Pipher 1594481881 Tracee 4 non-fiction 3.89 1994 Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
author: Mary Pipher
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 2007/01/01
date added: 2008/03/08
shelves: non-fiction
review:
great book. if you clearly remember being chewed up by puberty. not misogynistic at all. why? b/c it was written by a woman
]]> Norwegian Wood 11297
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]> 296 Haruki Murakami 0375704027 Tracee 4 favorites 4.01 1987 Norwegian Wood
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> The Sixteen Pleasures 3107 384 Robert Hellenga 0385314698 Tracee 4 fiction-beauties 3.58 1994 The Sixteen Pleasures
author: Robert Hellenga
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average rating: 3.58
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> The Valkyries 1425 212 Paulo Coelho 0062513346 Tracee 5 3.36 1988 The Valkyries
author: Paulo Coelho
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average rating: 3.36
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> The Alchemist 865 197 Paulo Coelho 0061122416 Tracee 5
then read it again.]]> 3.85 1988 The Alchemist
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Tracee
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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read this.

then read it again.
]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 Tracee 5 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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]]> <![CDATA[The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks]]> 91362
In a matter of months, Casey went to the Farallon Islands to join Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years.]]> 304 Susan Casey 0805080112 Tracee 4 non-fiction, favorites 4.01 2005 The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
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name: Tracee
average rating: 4.01
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great story. If you like sharks.
]]> <![CDATA[My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro]]> 1247446 Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.]]> 587 Jeffrey Eugenides 0061240370 Tracee 5 short-stories-love 3.92 2009 My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 2009
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Great compilation. You know, if you love LOVE.
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