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Member: Megi53

CollectionsYour library (93), Wishlist (1), Currently reading (2), To read (49), Favorites (13), All collections (94)

Reviews6 reviews

TagsTBR (54), 1010 (27), Finished (25), Australian (11), Best of the best (8), 1001 book (8), Bought new (7), Dorm (3), Borrowed (3), 2nd in series (3) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsJonathan Buckley, Italo Calvino, George Carlin, Florence King, Mark Twain, William Carlos Williams (Shared favorites)

About meI'm a school librarian with two adult children and a curmudgeonly Siamese cat. My favorite leisure-time activity after reading is hiking. My profile photo shows a tree along the Mountain Falls Trail in Fairy Stone State Park (Patrick County, VA)

About my libraryFavorite books of 2008 (in the order I read them):

Moby Dick -- Herman Melville
Snow Country -- Yasunari Kawabata
Under the Sea Wind -- Rachel Carson
Picnic at Hanging Rock -- Joan Lindsay
Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut
On the Road -- Jack Kerouac
Cosmicomics -- Italo Calvino
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler -- Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
Cider with Rosie -- Laurie Lee
An Obsession with Butterflies -- Sharman Apt Russell
Skins -- Sarah Hay
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- Douglas Adams
Marriott -- Robert O'Brien
The Baron in the Trees -- Italo Calvino
Comet in Moominland -- Tove Jansson
Moominvalley in November -- Tove Jansson
Welcome to the Monkey House -- Kurt Vonnegut
Monster of God -- David Quammen

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Real nameMegi

LocationVirginia

Account typepublic, free

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Member sinceNov 28, 2005

Currently readingA Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Ox-tales: Fire (Ox Tales) by Oxfam