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The Pledge by Friedrich Duerrenmatt

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GroupsBiographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Non-Fiction Readers, Science!

Favorite authorsAmir D. Aczel, Margaret Atwood, Simone de Beauvoir, Chris Bohjalian, Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, Laurie Colwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Viktor Frankl, Thomas L. Friedman, Neil Gaiman, Alice Hoffman, Rudyard Kipling, C. S. Lewis, Carson McCullers, David McCullough, Iris Murdoch, Ann Patchett, Jodi Picoult, Sylvia Plath, Anna Quindlen, Oliver Sachs, Upton Sinclair, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mark Twain, Simon Winchester (Shared favorites)

About meHi. I've been an book publishing acquisitions editor and in creative writing groups since 1995.

I'm very eclectic in my reading,art and musical tastes. I enjoy reading about history and love biographies, chick lit and popular science books. I haven't played music in years but can....meanwhile I keep listening to jazz, blues, folk international and classical music.

I try to keep sanity and reasonable health by running, cooking & pilates balanced with sharing glasses of wine with friends and watching lots of movies, House and sports.

About my libraryphilosophy, history, the classics, lots and lots of biographies and autobiographies, poetry, avant garde, high- brow and world fiction, short stories and non-fiction.

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Member sinceJun 8, 2007

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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce

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Free And Other Stories By Theodore Dreiser by Theodore Dreiser

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My university days, by Maxim Gorky by Maksim (1868-1936) Gorky

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The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Among the Cannibals. Containing 'The Mysterious Document', 'On the Track', and 'Among the Cannibals" by Jules; Ills. by Henry Austin Verne

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The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I love Neil Gaiman. I just finished The Confessions of Max Tivoli (for my book club at work), which was OK but a little repetitive. I'm thinking of tackling Swann's Way next, as it's been on my list of "finally read this this year" and I haven't gotten around to it yet....

posted by CorinaCorina at 7:47 am (EST) on Apr 26, 2008

Thank you for adding me to your Interesting libraries list.
Cyrel

posted by torontoc at 11:46 am (EST) on Apr 20, 2008

Nice to meet you Shelley! I love Atwood as well, and I recently read my first McCullers and loved it (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter). Can I ask what you're reading lately?

posted by CorinaCorina at 3:33 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

I recently started Bright Start Tutoring, Inc., an in-home tutoring service that serves the Birmingham, AL area. I don't get to tutor as much as I'd like because of doing the business end of things, but it's a lot of fun.

Good luck on all the life changes. It sounds like a stressful and challenging time, but it also sounds like a time that you can come out of the gates swinging and re-make your life into something great for you.

posted by blueacademia at 1:27 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2007

Thanks Shelley. I just started Atwood's Good Bones And Simple Murders so I'm excited about that. And you've reminded me that I need to update my profile since my transition is over. I think/I hope.

I makes me grin that I have 1,001 books right now, and you have 666. What nice, significant numbers:).

posted by blueacademia at 1:12 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2007

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