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About meOld school housewife,gamer,nerd and foodie. When the husband's away and the cleaning's done I destroy zombie hoards and bake cakes. Life is good.

If you're on Second Life then please look for me! My main is Retronatrix Resident, my alt is NefariousCurry Resident.

Would love to find gamers, especially console gamers, as well as other women who love to talk books. REALLY NEEDING GOOD BOOK TALK! The local book groups are all lacking, to put it nicely.

About my libraryI'm very eclectic about what I read and will generally give anything a chance....well,almost anything. I love discussions and controversial reads. I've an obsession with history and historical fiction as well as ancient subjects. Addicted to Kindle and online loaning.

The military history and weaponry is mostly my husband's so I'm not trying to ignore anyone in such groups. Just still trying to get him to check out librarything himself.

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, 30-something LibraryThingers, Amazon's Kindle, American Civil War, American History, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Anglophiles, Archaeology —show all groups

Favorite authorsOrson Scott Card, Julia Child, Philip K. Dick, Sarah Dunant, Ken Ham, Zora Neale Hurston, Madhur Jaffrey, Tim F. LaHaye, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beverly Lewis, Cook's Illustrated Magazine, George R. R. Martin, Debi Pearl, Michael Pearl, Jean Plaidy, Laura Joh Rowland, Lisa See, Kay Marshall Strom, Amy Tan, Gail Tsukiyama, Michael Wallace, Jane Watson, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Gallatin Valley Mall, Country Bookshelf, Family Christian Stores #226, Hastings, MSU Bookstore

Favorite librariesBozeman Public Library, Livingston-Park County Public Library, Montana State Library

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Real nameAnn Cook

LocationMontana

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/Retronatrix (profile)
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Member sinceSep 10, 2012

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HALO: The Thursday War by Karen Traviss

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A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

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The Indian Vegan Kitchen: More Than 150 Quick and Healthy Homestyle Recipes by Madhu Gadia

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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The Epicurious Cookbook: More Than 250 of Our Best-Loved Four-Fork Recipes for Weeknights, Weekends & Special Occasions by Tanya Steel

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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) by Ayana Mathis

Hey Ann. I did put A Thousand Splendid Suns on my “to read” list per your suggestion. But that’s about it, for me, with Khaled Hosseini.

posted by brian5764 at 11:51 am (EST) on Jun 10, 2013

Hi Ann. Yeah, I wondered if I had already asked you about discussion groups! (I can’t he’p it, I’m old!) Seems like a great idea. Starting one up, that is. Just not the time for that, for me, anyway. Who knows, maybe after I’m “settled,” we or I can kick the tires on that. Google+? Hmm. Don’t know anything about that one. (I always use Metacrawler for my searches, because they, allegedly at least, don’t track your every move in the evil empire way that Google allegedly does.) Hope you’re having a great summer.

posted by brian5764 at 12:04 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2013

Thanks Ann. Well, I hope things level off a bit for you. I’m trying to get disciplined to read four hours a day now for awhile, since I have the time to do that. But you know how that goes! Are there good book “clubs” here at LT where people actually read an “assigned” book and debate or discuss it, so to speak? I haven’t noticed anything like that, although I haven’t looked around very many groups lately. Later, Brian. : )

posted by brian5764 at 8:41 pm (EST) on May 23, 2013

Hi Ann. Please accept my apology for not getting back to you in so long! Let’s just say that I went through some life-changing stuff in the past couple of months. I’m no longer in South Dakota, but elsewhere in the U.S. with family, making my arrangements to move back to Mexico in June. Aarrgghh! My original job that I had lined up (or so I thought) did not go through. But I still feel I can get back down there to resume teaching English soon. Um, yeah, Rushdie. I hate to admit that I got sidetracked and haven’t finished The Satanic Verses, but such is the case. (Doncha just hate how that sometimes happens?) Anyway, yeah, light reading it is not, but that’s O.K., right? I mean, we’ll get through it when we’re supposed to. I hope you’ve been doing great lately!

posted by brian5764 at 11:38 am (EST) on May 20, 2013

Ann, very cool. I will put that one on my to-read list. Tomorrow, I am finishing up The Satanic Verses. (I figure you know the following, but in case you don’t: It’s not satanic. It’s a reference to some questionable verses in the Quran.) Rushdie mocks the heck out of religion here. (Islam in particular; “organized” religion, though, in general.) My goodness! How many postmodern attributes can one author put into one novel? It is an allegory, a satire, and a parody. It has magical realism, hysterical realism, metafiction, involvement with supernaturals, and intertextuality, all in one novel. I may have to go out and have a drink when I’m finished!

posted by brian5764 at 10:06 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2013

See how I am! LOL. Hi Ann. Well, I don’t mean to be a showoff or an upstart or anything like that, but I’ve read—and finished—The Grapes of Wrath three times. (I think. It’s been a hundred years ago; I don’t remember for sure now!) To be fair, though, now, I’m going to have to read A Thousand Splendid Suns. I’ve heard that it’s really good.

posted by brian5764 at 1:32 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2013

Hi Ann. Hope you’re doing well. That book that you read (The Fragility of Goodness) looks like it might be quite interesting. I just finished White Teeth. Wow! What an extravaganza. Everything bit as good as Underworld by Don DeLillo. Later!

posted by brian5764 at 3:56 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2013

Thanks for the friend request. I hope you enjoy Leviathan, the boy and I both loved the trilogy.

posted by junefaramore at 8:53 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2013

We have a poll about the proposed Book Island LibraryThing Library you can participate in:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/150123 :-)

Scroll down a bit to find it...

posted by AMZoltai at 2:30 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2013

Hi Ann. How are you doing? I am hoping to get in three or four hours of White Teeth by Zadie Smith today. What are you reading? I have spent way too much time setting up my tags, but wow, I love this capability! Running them in conjunction with my collections is almost as much fun as working with a pivot table on a spreadsheet. (I know, I need to get a life! lol)

posted by brian5764 at 5:24 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2013

Well, I have never read anything else by Gaiman, but American Gods was incredible. I was on a roll yesterday with writing and posting reviews, so I did one for it as well. Lately most of my time has been spent getting ready to move, and getting caught up with files and piles, so I know exactly what you mean! And my “must read now” list is huge. Oh well, one day at a time, or something like that.

posted by brian5764 at 10:07 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2013

Thank you for the request! Well, I’m feeling a little more “settled in” around LT. I took a look at some of your reviews. Wow! The steampunk genre! Have I been hanging out with Dickens and Dostoyevsky for a bit too long? I guess I’ll have to broaden my horizons, huh?! On another topic, cookie-cutter twins we’re not; yet we share some interesting books in common. What did you think of American Gods?

posted by brian5764 at 8:03 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2013

Thanks for the welcome Retronatrix. You know, this looks like a wonderful website. I have the sense that it’s a bit more difficult to learn your way around at first, but that you can also do a lot with it once you learn. And yes, it’s great to find fellow bibliophiles. Good luck with your Italian. (I have enough trouble with English and Spanish!) :)

posted by brian5764 at 8:35 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2013

Thank you so much for putting The Almond Tree in your interesting library. If you have any questions about it or want to know the inside scoop behind the book, please just contact me.

posted by MichelleCorasanti at 1:39 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2013

Thank you for the interesting library tag.

posted by Omar_Kiam at 10:17 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2013

Mostly cookbooks, huh? I can't read those... they make my grocery bills go up! ^_^

posted by Literate.Ninja at 1:36 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2013

Hey there, Thanks so much for tagging me as an interesting library! It looks like you've read some interesting things yourself. ^_^ Read anything good over the holidays?

posted by Literate.Ninja at 11:55 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2013

Hi Retronatrix. Thank you for the friend request and finding my library interesting. I really like your library as well. We have a lot of books in common!

posted by TRIPLEHHH at 4:49 am (EST) on Dec 26, 2012

Dear Ann,

You’ve won “Total Secession” from LibraryThing!

Would you like to receive your copy in the Kindle format, the NOOK format, or as a PDF? Please let me know so that I can get the novel to you as fast as possible.

Your Author,

Adam Connell

posted by adamconnell at 5:15 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2012

Here is one for your Kindle if you have not yet discovered Thomas Merton:
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Storey-Mountain-Thomas-Merton/dp/0156010860
It's great!

~S

posted by eugenegant at 6:32 pm (EST) on Sep 20, 2012

So Ann, I see your living the dream out of Livingston, MT. So, is it what we 'wanna-be-there' folks think it should be -a place away from everywhere else where time runs slow and the moon shines large just over the mountains?

-middle of the US, just east of the great divide (Colorado) ~Steven

posted by eugenegant at 8:09 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2012

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