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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Joel Berg, Jasper Fforde, Peter Mayle, Marcel Theroux (Shared favorites)

About meI live in Lincolnshire in the UK, and work in an office. I usually read whenever I get the opportunity - usually first thing in the morning when I wake up, in the bath, and at night. Sometimes I'll read during the day if I'm reading a particularly good book...

I love browsing through bookstores in any shape and form, handling books, reading pages of books in the store, looking at books, buying books from anywhere - supermarkets, fleamarkets, second hand bookshops, big bookshops, car boots, internet, charity shops...

About my libraryI just love books. I try to read a bit of everything and don't restrict myself to one or two genres.

I like fiction, thrillers, mysteries, modern classics, classic classics, historical books, biographies, cookery books, fact books, in fact pretty much everything - I can even do a bit of romance and girlie fiction when in the mood.

This year (2009) I'm going to try and read all of Charles Dickens' books - in the order they were published, and also complete a reading challenge by a book forum I belong to which involves reading the following:

Animal's People - Indra Sinha
Always the Sun - Neil Cross
The Beach - Alex Garland (CURRENTLY READING)
Red River - Lalita Tademy
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Farm - George Orwell (READ)
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
The Body on the Beach - Simon Brett (READ)
Persuasion - Jane Austen (READ)
Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Boy who Kicked Pigs - Tom Baker
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Hannah's Daughters - Marianne Fredriksson
Winter in Madrid - C J Sansom
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (READ)
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (READ)

Currently Reading - The Beach by Alex Garland
Currently Listening to - The Warden by Anthony

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Currently readingThe Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Concise Pepys Diary (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Samuel Pepys
In the Wake of the Plague (Central Asian Studies) by Norman F. Cantor
The Victorian House by Judith Flanders
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
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Hi
have finished In the Miso Soup, great do you want me to send it to you?
Louise

posted by louiseog at 4:27 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2009

Hi Michaela.

Nice to hear from you and hope you are well. I'm pleased you enjoyed Season of the Witch. I remember starting out a bit slow with it then became hooked. I picked up her recent novel The Keeper a while back now.
How's work going?

Caroline xx

posted by CarolineCC at 3:33 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009

Thanks so much and brace yourself for good laughter and tears.

posted by landoline at 5:55 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2009

Buying? Me? Oh heavens no...I am using the Wishlist as a place to direct my friends in finding those so-hard-to-come-by gifts they'll know will please. The Amazon wishlist got too long and started to scare people.

This one bids fair to do the same. If I win the lottery, I'm going to turn on one-click buying at Amazon and just hit the "Yes" button. Ah, dreams....

Cheers
RMD

posted by richardderus at 10:33 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2009

**smile**

Oh well, never mind, I'm sure you've read some great books this year anyway.

posted by DubaiReader at 4:18 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2009

No worries - we get about don't we??

Thanks for the books, I'd expect 8 to 10 weeks but it's very variable.
I hadn't realised you were a Moocher or that you were Michaella.

Hope you admired my new Profile pics - put up 2 days ago with the help of another member, I'm so proud of myself :)
I even posted on YOU about them!!

5 1/2 months left to complete your YOU reading challenge - do you think you'll make it??
I didn't enter as I only use this site for the books I've read. Plus I read too many Book Group reads.
But it's a great idea, especially if you're wondering what to read next.

How many Dickens Books have you managed - and how mwny are there? I've never read one **blush** but Global reads are my thing, not Classics so much. If I chose just one, which should it be??

Thanks for the friend invite :)
MaryAnne

posted by DubaiReader at 3:00 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2009

Hello Michaela, I hope all's well...just a drive-by hug....

posted by richardderus at 4:27 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009

Hi,

Saw you liked Trainspotting, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reading my new novel and posting your comments here (as well as on a few other book-related sites). Thought you might like my novel since it's also about a group of disturbed kids and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 3:09 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2009

Hi Michaela, we have quite a few books in common! We also share a surname and a liking for cats if your photo is anything to go by!

posted by BooksPlease at 9:45 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2009

I see you have finished and enjoyed The Poisonwood Bible, Michaela I must get round to trying this author soon. Hope all is well with you. C x

posted by CarolineCC at 3:48 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2009

Hello stranger!
Where've you vanished off to recently? I had to drop by again because I've been madly catching up on cataloguing all my new buys of April and the start of May, and just about every one comes up with your name underneath it on its main page. Very spooky.
Hope all is wonderful up Sheffield way... as for me, I'm just happy that unless the nice carpet men chip the skirting board tomorrow when they're laying the new flooring, I don't have to look at a tin of Forest Green Homebase paint again for a loooooong time!
xxx

posted by elliepotten at 3:15 pm (EST) on May 18, 2009

Michaela...I haven't seen much of you 'round the Thing...are you busy, busy or dead, dead?

Inquiring mind want to know, as our equivalent of The Sun advertises.

xoxo
RMD

posted by richardderus at 8:02 am (EST) on May 17, 2009

The time-traveller's wife was one of the few books I've ever read where I've physically cried at the end - you were sad, yet glad he got the release he needed. I'm glad you enjoyed it too.
Annabel

posted by gaskella at 4:16 am (EST) on Apr 27, 2009

I hope you like 'The Juggler' - I thought it was brilliant!
Annabel
x

posted by gaskella at 6:25 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

I know what you mean, you might have to wade through the shelves of chick-lit but there are some real treasures to be found. And you get to help a worthy cause! I used to work in a bookshop, and there was always a box of books in the staff canteen (returns, promotional copies, damaged books etc) that you could help yourself to. Heaven! I still have shelves of books I haven't had time to read. What do you think of e-books, or do you prefer the real deal?

posted by sarahksays at 6:49 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

Hey, thanks! I've read all the books in my Library (what few I've posted so far), but next thing on my list is to tag them and rate them etc. I just found out about LibraryThing recently and love it. Have you been a member for long?

posted by sarahksays at 6:05 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2009

You're welcome, and I'm glad you enjoyed the reviews. I never can work out whether what I'm writing is interesting or not, or helpful or not! I am in awe of your 2009 Dickens read - I've always struggled to get into his books.

posted by CatyM at 7:04 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries.

posted by CatyM at 6:51 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

The e-book is all I have now. I've run out of physical copies. Is that okay? if so, send me your e-mail address (mine is mail@christophertusa.com) and I'll email you the e-book.

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 5:51 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

posted by cmtusa at 3:18 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

You'll definitely be invited along! We need a beam fixing in the shop, then all it takes is for us to approve a draft contract and sign everything and it's ours. They've accepted our requests for some rent-free weeks and a lower annual rent too. I was going to invite you anyway - a nice fellow LibraryThinger living close by - and it'll be nice to meet you at last! Hopefully if we can get in soon to start doing fun stuff like laying flooring (!) we'll be able to open in mid-July to catch the kiddies off school, the tourists, and if we run an opening promotion Saturday to Monday, the market bunch as well. Got to start with a bang! How are you this pleasantly mild mid-week? xxx

posted by elliepotten at 7:02 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

I contribute to the increase of human knowledge in whatever little ways I can.

Cheers
RMD

posted by richardderus at 6:19 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

It canNOT be that easy. No! I refuse to think that I have given more credit to some crummy books than they deserved because I didn't know to double-click! No! Really...do I have to sacrifice a marmot under a full moon while dancing widdershins around a dolmen or something? C'mon...level with me....

posted by richardderus at 12:17 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

Michaela dearie-snoogles, will you please educate your elderly Auntie RIchard in how one gives half-stars to books? I am verschmeckled by this ability that some seem to have yet I have not. Quite upsetting.

Can't wait to hear what you think of "Vile Bodies" after it's run its course through your brain.

xo

posted by richardderus at 11:46 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries!

posted by skrishna at 7:14 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2009

Pshaw! Faugh! I reject implcations that I might have other motives for disliking this self-important queen's book!

(Actually, I just like typing those words. I have no idea how to say them, but they *look* so good!)

Cheers
RMD

posted by richardderus at 9:07 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2009

No, Rupert Everett is a favorite fantasy object of my former mate, Mr. Man, and since we had a habit of reading to each other in bed, he wanted me to read that book to him. I demurred. The book, more's the pity, came with me to New York from Texas, and now I have the dratted thing sitting here smirking balefully at me.

Maybe I'll send it back to Mr. Man, so his new girlfriend can read it to him. Hmmm...perhaps my irritation with M. Everett isn't all about him, what'cha think?

Cheers
RMD

posted by richardderus at 10:23 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2009

Hello! No, I've heard good things about it but I haven't read any of Winterson's books before, just her columns in the book section of The Times (before they made it over and turned it into a broadsheet menace, grrrr). I HAVE, however, frequently read your latest buy, the wonderful 'Notes from a Big Country' by Bill Bryson. It may be my favourite Bryson, and it's such a good book for dipping into when you're feeling a bit miserable. I took it to uni as well because I could fit in little sections between course reading! I had noticed that everything I add you seem to have too, it's getting rather spooky now! Hope you love your new book, and that everything is going well! xx

posted by elliepotten at 8:14 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2009

Hi there Michaela! The Pearl Rule is what I, and many others around the Thing, call uberlibrarian Nancy Pearl's "Rule of Fifty" when judging a book: Up to the age of fifty, to be fair in assessing a book's merits, a reader must go for 50 pages before placing, tossing, or hurling a book aside as unreadable...errr, that is, not to one's taste.

After the age of fifty, one subtracts one's age from fifty and that number is subtracted from fifty; this then is the number of pages that must be read before same. So at sixty-one, say, the reader is only to give a fair shake at thirty-nine pages. Advancing years should grant a degree of certainty to one's tastes, goes the theory, and so less is required to make a determination as to fit.

Nancy Pearl introduced me to this concept in her book "Book Lust," which I recommend to all and sundry. I hope that helped!

Cheers
RMD

posted by richardderus at 10:22 am (EST) on Mar 26, 2009

Hello again! I just bought 'Swallowing Grandma' too - and Mum's lent me 'Wire in the Blood' because she really enjoyed it, so we have yet more books in common... I was very good today, I bought a few books for our growing stockpile, one for Mum, and only one for myself - though I did buy a beautiful golden and coloured framed artwork of Tutankhamen's funerary mask, and one of those little 'Me to You' teddy bears with a little bunch of roses in it's paws! Awww, I was feeling a bit miserable and saw the little bear and just had to take him home! Shop viewing tomorrow... xxx

posted by elliepotten at 4:25 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

I like to get the Early Reviewers ones out of the way quickly - this one looks great, but I've got to read a book all about a British coke dealer in a Columbian prison for my book group which I'm not very keen on next!

posted by gaskella at 6:29 am (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

Aha! There you are! How are you getting on this week? Yes, I liked Addition - not one I'll read again but one I'm glad to have read once, if you know what I mean... Just cataloguing my newbies from my trip to a 'proper' town today (that is, a town with more than charity shops and a Boots) - I spent £30 of Waterstones vouchers and had a pretty good time all things considered! xx

posted by elliepotten at 7:38 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2009

Hi M, How are you doing with your reading of Dicken's books? I haven't read anything by him for so long, and I have nothing but great memories of that. I think one of my favorites would have to be "Great Expectations" I'm reading "The Post Birthday World" and LOVING it! I can't wait to read Shriver's other stuff. Have you read anything by her. I'm supposed to be reading "John Adams" for the Presidential Challenge but I am so involved in this book that I want to finish it so I can concentrate on the David Mccullough biography.

posted by mmignano11 at 11:32 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2009

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