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Wit'ch War (The Banned and the Banished, Book 3) by James Clemens

Amphigorey by Edward Gorey

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Sword-Dancer (Tiger and Del) by Jennifer Roberson

Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

Bring on the Apocalypse: Collected Writing by George Monbiot

Silent Inlet by Joanna Streetly

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CollectionsYour library (373), Wishlist (10), Currently reading (4), To read (45), Read but unowned (88), Loaned Out (11), Cookbooks (9), Travel books (9), All collections (400)

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Tagsfiction (179), romance (46), fantasy (44), historical romance (31), illustrated (29), planning (28), cities (27), art (25), classic (25), Canadian (23) — see all tags

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Favorite bookstoresBook Warehouse - Denman, Powell's City of Books

About me27 year old urban planner living on the west coast.

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Literate Good Citizen You read to inform or entertain yourself, but you're not nerdy about it. You've read most major classics (in school) and you have a favorite genre or two. What Kind of Reader Are You?

About my libraryMy library is a bit of a split personality, containing lots of non fiction and "trashy" fiction. I'm a bit eclectic, but have an keen interest in both the natural world and our built environment. For fiction, I gravitate towards enjoyable and escapist books, hence the fantasy and romance heavy list. I'm pretty open minded, but mostly read fiction based on recommendation. Hoping to read more great literature one of these days.

My reviews are in the comments section. There might be spoilers.

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Currently readingIf This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground by J. Edward Chamberlin
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen
Millennium by Tom Holland

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Millennium by Tom Holland

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Growing Greener: Putting Conservation Into Local Plans And Ordinances by Randall G. Arendt

ParadigmTree reviewed, rated, added:
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran by Parsua Bashi

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The Girl with Glass Feet: A Novel by Ali Shaw

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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Catching Fire: The Second Book of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Yay! I scored another ER book: Angel Lane by Sheila Roberts

I'm also going to my first Wordfest event with Jen in Oct. We're going to see Wayson Choy. Has your author thing finished yet? Did you see Chelsea Cain? How was it?

S

posted by Cauterize at 5:46 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2009

Have you read this:
http://www.librarything.com/work/8575873

Some people in the 75 Group said it was really good.

S

posted by Cauterize at 5:23 pm (EST) on Sep 22, 2009

PT,

Kool, I look forward to hearing about it. Is 1001 a favorite story of yours? I read it and enjoyed the first two thirds immensely. I'd say the last three hundred nights started to wear on me. In any case I highly recommend it to my friends, though I have yet to have one follow my advice :) But that's the fate of a book lover. Maybe your experience is different. Maybe you're surrounded by book lovers. I hope so.

Anyways, tell me all about it when it arrives.

ciao!

HH

posted by HHumbert at 10:00 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2009

PT,

Ya Powell's is the best - I spend hours at a pop getting lost among the stacks. I make it a point to go every couple of weeks. Fantastic.

So you live in Vancouver???? I'm so jealous - what a great city. I've been a few times and I absolutely love it every time I'm there. My wife and I moved to Salem about six years ago, and it's fine, but a far cry from Vancouver. Oh well, you have to go where the work is. Count yourself lucky.

By the way, what drew you to that edition of A Thousand and One Nights that you asked about?

Anyways, happy reading.

HH

posted by HHumbert at 11:35 pm (EST) on Aug 3, 2009

PT,

Ya, no problem, I only wish I could have helped. But thx for the welcome. I'm busy adding my library, which isn't as prodigious as yours, but it's a start. It's a fascinating site; I'm surprised I didn't run into it sooner.

I see you list Powell's as your bookstore - are you in PDX? I'm in Salem so just curious.

Anyways, thx again and happy reading!!

posted by HHumbert at 3:39 am (EST) on Aug 2, 2009

ParadigmTree,

Ooops, I have the wrong version of Thousand and One Nights listed - it's actually an Everyman's version. Sorry to disappoint. I'll make sure I correct it.

posted by HHumbert at 4:54 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2009

My mom made me take out all the books that came out of storage so they could put them on their shelves or repackage them. So I made sure I catalogued everything. Took me a whole day!

posted by Cauterize at 2:38 pm (EST) on May 29, 2009

?? I thought you said there was a Spanish one... :) Of course I'm gonna pick up P&P&Zombies! LOL have you seen this? I want it so bad.
http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.h...

posted by Cauterize at 1:40 pm (EST) on May 7, 2009

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1822922/ne...
He sounds like Alan Rickman!

BTW, which book were you recommending for me? The Conceit one? I tried looking at your last 10 and I wasn't sure.

posted by Cauterize at 12:50 am (EST) on May 7, 2009

That review is funny, I love it. I also am quite amused that they got that person to respond to it. There's nothing stupider than the "you can't criticize any book until you've published your own" argument. I thought books were written for readers, not to be read solely by other writers! But the grammatical mistakes are appalling - even I can tell. The publisher should fire the editor, copy editor, the whole she-bang.

I also am nursing the opinion that a lot of the ER books aren't very good, so publishers shouldn't send them out to serious readers to review unless they want some brutally honest results. My George RR Martin one was a lot better than Doomsday but I didn't love it, that's for sure.

posted by Cauterize at 8:11 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009

I had a stomach thing that lasted a few days, a couple weeks ago. Sharp pains every so often and gas. Not fun. I'm sure you're not all Swine Flu-ed up. But yeah, why not read? I just finished Swallowing Darkness quickly. Didn't read it word for word, but then that's the only way to read Hamilton these days.

posted by Cauterize at 6:52 pm (EST) on May 4, 2009

I'll have to wait until it's "evening minutes". But chill out and get some nappies until then :)

posted by Cauterize at 6:31 pm (EST) on May 4, 2009

I can tell you're on right this second... you just added a book when I was looking at your library :) I think I will call you tonight...

posted by Cauterize at 6:24 pm (EST) on May 4, 2009

LOL, I didn't know you were checking out my thread! I think you can post to it, even if you're not a member of the group?

The Wodehouse was pretty funny... the only problem with the one I picked is that a part of the plot revolves around blackface! I've never seen the show, sadly enough. But I imagined Hugh Laurie as the Wooster, reading me the book. Hotness.

posted by Cauterize at 5:34 pm (EST) on Apr 30, 2009

Thanks! I was pissed off with Andrew, so it motivated me to pull out all my books, get their ISBNs and then shelve them according to series and author. It's looking pretty sweet now! I did leave out my law texts and cookbooks as well. You mentioned travel books... I didn't see mine. It's making me wonder if Annie still has my Rick Steves!

No worries about the group stuff I only get on Caro's and James's butts to contribute!

posted by Cauterize at 12:15 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2009

I finally got around to adding all the books I've read that is here with me! Didn't add all the TBR books though - two shelves. LOL!

posted by Cauterize at 6:28 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2009

Sweet! I got another book: http://www.librarything.com/work/3304471

posted by Cauterize at 2:41 am (EST) on Jan 7, 2009

LOL, read this review: http://www.librarything.com/work/6034941...
It was under my "hot reviews"

posted by Cauterize at 12:37 am (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

LOL did you read the full official review I did for it? I've been telling James how I'm totally romance/paranormal/urbaned out right now because of all the rapes and near-rape sex scenes I've been having to read. It's depressing, actually. I think I'll pull those Loretta Chases you rated for Xmas reading, they're on suspended holds at the Lib. At least I'm reading higher brow stuff right now as a result of my burnout... haha.

posted by Cauterize at 2:07 am (EST) on Dec 15, 2008

Bing bing! I am a lifetime account now!

posted by Cauterize at 1:36 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2008

Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your Interesting Libraries. Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 4:28 pm (EST) on Nov 8, 2008

You should read my newest comments on Third Circle and Silver Master. I never realized how much I dislike paranormals and shameless plugs.

I added them by taking out some books - I'm waiting for a good exchange time to buy my membership. haha.

posted by Cauterize at 12:30 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2008

Yeah, I think so! I like keeping track of my books and what I'm reading, esp the library books. 25 bucks isn't going to kill me in order to keep a lifetime! :D

BTW, I just got my copy of the early reviewer book. Free books! eeeeee!

posted by Cauterize at 2:06 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2008

I got a copy of that Any Given Doomsday book! Whoo! Free books, here I come!

posted by Cauterize at 12:01 am (EST) on Sep 13, 2008

Well, once you start adding some fiction books instead of all your hoity-toity planning books (BTW, I think there is a tool to find out how 'rare' your collection is) I'm sure you'll move up on my list! I really don't check those people out though, because like I told you, they invariably review everything as either 4 or 5 stars. Which doesn't help me out at all.

posted by Cauterize at 7:25 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2008

Haha, right at this moment I am the leader... of the members with your books (23/192) weighted.

posted by Cauterize at 1:53 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2008

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