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Favorite authorsNeil Gaiman, Christopher Moore, Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk (Shared favorites)

About meYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
~ Ray Bradbury ~

I love books. All books. Big books, small books, bad books, good books. If it can be read I will read it. I live in Washington with my boy, my dog, my cat and my books and I couldn't be happier.

Currently Reading:
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
America: The Book
Dragons of the Summer Flame

Next on the Shelves:

Paradise
Everyman
Flu
Fugitives and Refugees
Glamorama
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
A Home at the End of the World
Hunting Mr. Heartbreak
In Dubious Battle
Is There Life After Death?
King's Sacrifice
Lady of the Sea
Life and Times of Michael K
Loop
Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway
Marked
A Monk Swimming
Names My Sisters Call Me
On Truth
Out of the Silent Planet
Pereira Declares
Possession: A Romance
Prozac Nation
Red Mandarin Dress
Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
The Simarillion
So Brave, So Young and Handsome
Spiral
The Subterraneans
Talk, Talk
Thunderstruck
To Kill a Mockingbird
The United States of Wal-Mart
Violence, Nudity and Adult Content
Water for Elephants
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
The Winter of Our Discontent
You Suck
Absurdistan
The Alchemist
American Born Chinese
And Only to Deceive
Ariel
The Autograph Man
Batman: A Death in the Family
Be Good to Eddie Lee
Better Than Sex
Black Dogs
Blue Shoe
The Book of Ruth
Brick Lane
Bushwacked
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
The Chicago World's Fair
The City of Falling Angels
Cold Mountain
Coraline
The Curse of Lono
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Death: The High Cost of Living
Dearly Devoted Dexter
Dexter in the Dark
Dogeaters
Dry
Eleven Minutes
Enemy Women
Uglies
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Fifth Mountain
The Fountainhead
Garden Spells
The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
Child of the Dark Prophecy
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings
How to Be Alone
I Married a Communist
In Cold Blood
Inkheart
Inspell
Inkdeath
Issac's Storm
The Joke's Over
Kamikaze Girls
The Lady Elizabeth
Last Orders
Life and Times of Michael K
A Lion Among Men
Long After Midnight
Love and Other Games of Chance
Lullaby
A Map of the World
Masks of the Illuminati
Midnight's Children
The Moon is Down
The Music Lesson
The Neon Bible
Obasan
On Death and Dying
Opium: A History
Pale Fire
The Perfect Storm

About my libraryMy library has everything and anything in it. I live on a limited budget so I tend to pick up used items, but I'm ok with that because the less money I spend on books the more books I can buy.

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Noticed you liked Girl Interrupted, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a disturbed young girl's mental illness and also a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris
Thank you for participating in my new thread. That one was getting too long so here is the second one. Hope to see you there often.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/67343
Inviting some people to the thread I just started. Thought it might be of interest to you.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/66785
http://www.librarything.com/topic/50368#...

You might like to play along. Would love for you to join us.

Jacqueline
We need more players... might you be interested?

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...
You posted that you love Invisible Monsters. I have very mixed feelings about Palahniuk. I loved the Fight Club, a little weirded out by Haunted (not necessarily in a bad way), grossed out by Rant (even though it turned out okay), and I could not read Snuff because it was just disgusting. Where does IM fit into his grossness scale? I really thought he had so much potential for psychological exploration when I read Fight Club. I do want to try again. What do you recommend?
We only share one book. What is up with that! I haven't yet looked at your collection. I can't remember all the books that I have read. Maybe looking here will jog my memory.
odd as in worth reading or not worth reading? :) it will be a while before i get around to it. my "to be read" stack is getting out of hand.
Nope, no detailed paragraphs about Bella's beauty because, well, there are no extensive paragraphs, period. Meyer doesn't seem to have gotten beyond the comma and period as forms of punctuation, and most of her sentences are short and simple (but not short and sweet, as in Hemingway). And good god, there is no discussion of her milky breasts...as far as Meyer is concerned, Bella's the only horndog of the bunch...Edward expresses that he "wants" her, but he's in no hurry...however, I think she is working on a book that captures the events of the other books from Edward's perspective, and there might be some gushing in those....until then, we're stuck with Bella's endless descriptions of how gorgeous Edward is. It might be an entertaining read, but don't waste your time!
Did you get so far as to discover that Bella's full name is Bella Swan? They make this big deal in the book about how she doesn't feel pretty, even though Edward swears she's beautiful....so I'm thinking there's going to be an ugly duckling tie-in somewhere and that once she becomes a vampire, she'll be simply breathtaking. Honestly, you don't know what you're missing :)
Holy cow, that's a fantastically awful write-up. It's funny that you mention teenage goth fodder because it turns out that the girls attending our book group and building the most excitement for Breaking Dawn (the oh-so-glorious 4th book, coming August 2nd) are 12-16 years old and pretty clean cut. I think the gothy kids need more of the dirty stuff than Meyer is willing to provide.

Don't do it, I'm urging you.
you've added some amazing books lately and i totally agree with your ratings!
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