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Wants to read Death of the Author

Finished reading The Road to Roswell

Wants to read Americanah

Rated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 8/10

Finished reading Winter Harvest

Wants to read Lázár

Finished reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Wants to read Wearing the Lion

Finished reading If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Finished reading Automatic Noodle

Wants to read The West Passage

Finished reading A Sudden Light

Wants to read Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

Finished reading A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Finished reading All Systems Red

Finished reading Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Finished reading A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River

Wants to read In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants

Wants to read What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Finished reading The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

Wants to read The Mars House

Wants to read Ancillary Justice

Wants to read Mexican Gothic

Rated The Fixer 6/10

Rated Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking 6/10

Small book, big ideas and questions to ponder: What drives us to do what we love? What gives us the confidence to keep going and what keeps us from starting at all? First printed in 1993, one might expect some of the concepts raised in this book to be slightly out of date, but in the two and a half hours it took me to finish it, I never once felt like I was reading a sixteen-year-old observation, nor did I feel any of it crossed the line into preachy self-help nonsense.<br><br>(Full review at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2009/12/art-fear-by-david-bayles-and-ted-orland.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>