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Member: jibrailis

CollectionsYour library (1,271), Wishlist (598), Currently reading (8), Read but unowned (201), All collections (2,072)

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Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, ARC Junkies, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Atwoodians, Baker Street and Beyond, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, BookMooching, Books Compared, Canadian Bookworms — show all groups , English majors!, Fairy Tales Retold, FantasyFans, Feminist SF, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), Non-Fiction Readers, Queer and Trans Lit, Read YA Lit, Reading Globally, Science Fiction Fans, SlashThing, The Black Orchid (A Nero Wolfe Group), What Are You Reading Now?, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Elizabeth Bear, Francesca Lia Block, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacqueline Carey, Nancy Farmer, Neil Gaiman, Guy Gavriel Kay, E. L. Konigsburg, Julia Kristeva, Tanith Lee, Alberto Manguel, Sarah Monette, Donna Jo Napoli, Garth Nix, Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, Lemony Snicket, Catherynne M. Valente, Kaori Yuki (Shared favorites)

About meI am, in no particular order: a university student (English lit and comparative religion), a first gen Chinese-Canadian immigrant, a geek, a hypersomniac, a green tea addict, a creative writer, a slob.

I'm also double-jointed in both my elbows but I can't whistle. Alas.

About my libraryI own all the books in my library, and it's embarrassing how few of them I've read, but once I own a book my urgency to read it lessens. I feel like I can take my time. I go through my public library books with their impending due dates much more quickly. Also, I weed out my library fairly often and trade away books that I didn't like so much. That's why most of the books left have very positive reviews and ratings. It's not that I automatically give four or five stars to every book I come across. It's that those are the ones I keep!

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Member sinceNov 12, 2006

Currently readingBorges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway
Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud by J. Samuel Preus
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom
When The Duke Returns by Eloisa James
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