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Member: RebeccaAnn

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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Erin Belieu, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Alexandre Dumas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, William Shakespeare, Dan Simmons, Upton Sinclair (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesLommen Health Sciences Library - University of South Dakota

About meI'm a twenty-three year old college student majoring in both Music Performance and English (my profile pic is me performing a viola concerto with the Chamber Orchestra), which means I've been a college student for five years and I'm not quite finished yet. When I have free time, I read. I also work at the university's library, so I read there as well. I think it would be fantastic to be a librarian and run my own library some day. Short of that, maybe owning a bookstore would be nice. Preferably a used one, as I love used books.

I tend to read multiple books at the same time because I'm always in a different mood and hate having to finish a book before I can start another one. It just makes me mad at the book I'm currently reading and it's never fun to be mad at reading :(

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Currently reading:

Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

About my libraryI tend to buy more books than I can read, so of the many books I own, I haven't read most of them. I tried to stop buying books once, but it didn't work out. I succeeded for a few weeks, then went on about five consecutive book buying binges resulting in a lot of spending of money I didn't really have at the moment. I buy books. That's just how I am. ;-)

"If I have money, I buy books. If I have any left over, I buy food and clothes."
~Story of my life... :P

A brief explanation of my tags:
Own: I own these books, regardless of whether or not I have read them.
Read: These are the books I own and have read
To Read: These are the books I own, have not read, but want to read
***Note: I do not mark collections of short stories or poetry as "Read" or "To Read" for the simple fact that I don't read them straight through but rather prefer to dip into them, savoring a poem here or a story there. To read them like a work of fiction takes away from their beauty and strength, I think.
Read But Unowned: I either borrowed these from the library or a friend and have read them
Wishlist: I do not own these, have not read them, but really really want to.
Used To Own: I used to own these book and have read them, but for some reason or another I got rid of my copy (likely because I didn't like the book and needed the shelf space).
Abandoned: Self explanatory, but these are really bad books that I couldn't finish. I would never recommend these books to anyone.
On Hiatus:Books that are okay and at some point, I plan on finishing but for the moment, I don't really feel like reading them.

...and a quick explanation of my starring system:
5 stars - Hella fantastic and recommended for everyone! I found very few to no flaws.
4 stars - Really good but I didn't love it.
3 stars - Recommended if you're a fan of the genre or the summary strikes your fancy. I found it decent but thought there were some major faults.
2 stars - Not recommended. Read at your own risk.
1 star -What an utterly awful, disgusting, meaningless piece of garbage. Reserved only for the worst of the worst.

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Real nameRebecca

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Member sinceFeb 17, 2009

Currently readingThe Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories by Peter Haining
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens