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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Italo Calvino, Neil Gaiman, Tom Robbins, Tony Vigorito, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)

About my libraryMy library at the moment is split between my home in NY and where I live and work in CA for most of the year. (I'm currently a nanny trying to figure out the next step in my life. I've had the opportunity to read hundreds of wonderful children's books, and am slowly adding to my own children's collection...) To me, books offer interesting knowledge, ideas, beliefs, perspectives and escapes. I love books that make me laugh, make me think, and make me appreciate and smile at every single beautifully and cleverly crafted sentence, making me think "wow, I wish I could write like that." A majority of my books have come from used bookstores; I'm an addict. And since my collecting rate far exceeds my reading rate, I have so many books I have yet to read, which makes it so hard to choose which one to read next...

I'm also WAY behind in rating books...

Books read in 2009
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving
2. Curious Lives, Adventures from the Ferret Chronicles- Richard Bach
3. Nation- Terry Pratchett
4. The Frog Prince, A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults- Stephen Mitchell
5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard- J.K Rowling
6. Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book- Walker Percy
7. The Bridge Across Forever- Richard Bach
8. The Indian in the Cupboard- Lynn Reid Banks
9. M Is for Magic- Neil Gaiman
10. B is for Beer- Tom Robbins
11. Interworld- Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
12. The Book of the Die, A handbook of dice living- Luke Rhinehart
13. Schrodinger's Ball- Adam Felber
14. Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas- Tom Robbins
15. Rumo- Walter Moers
16. Anthem- Ayn Rand
17. After Dachau- Daniel Quinn
18. The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman of Oz, also, Princess Ozma of Oz- L. Frank Baum
19. Providence, The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest- Daniel Quinn
20. The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear- Walter Moers
21. The City of Dreaming Books- Walter Moers
22. Firefly Lane- Kristin Hannah
23. The 13 Clocks- James Thurber
24. The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
25. Around the World in EIghty Days- Jules Verne (listened to from Librivox)
26. The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
27. The Magician's Elephant- Kate DiCamillo
28. Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal- C.G. Jung (and Roderick Main)

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Member sinceAug 23, 2007