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Member: SqueakyChu

Library424 books — see library

Reviews30 reviews — see reviews

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TagsTBR (156), fiction (62), short stories (42), cookbooks (40), RABCKed to me (32), Japanese fiction (28), needs cover (27), @bookray (21), @book review only (15) — see all tags

Groups50 Book Challenge, 888 Challenge, African/African American Literature, All Books Africa, Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Art is Life, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Birds, Birding & Books, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Book Fiend — show all groups , BookCrossers, BookMooching, Can you recommend....., Clarissa's Cottage, Comics, Common Knowledge and WikiThing, Contemporary Fiction, Cookbookers, DimSum Thing, Discussion group for Gene Smith's Tagging, Early Reviewers, Erotica, Existentialism, Gardening, Genealogy@LT, Hebrew Literature, Holocaust Experiences, Indian Authors, Israeli LibraryThingers, Japanese Culture, Japanese Literature, Jewish Bibliophiles, Jewish Cookbooks and Cookery, Jewish Fiction, Judaica, LibraryThing Coffeehouse, Librarything Local, LibraryThing-ers Anonymous, Maryland Librarythingers, National Book Festival, Non-American Literature, Non-Fiction Readers, Readers Over Sixty, Reading Globally, Reading Tips, Second Life, Short Stories, Stalking Tim & Company, Tea!, Thailand: Language, Books and Culture, The City That Reads (Baltimore. Yes, hon, Baltimore.), The Middle East, Underappreciated Books and Authors, Used Books, Vegetarians and vegans, Washington, DC, Weird Fiction, What Are You Reading Now?, What did YOU buy today?, בעברית LT in Hebrew

Favorite authorsRichard Brautigan, Jonathan Carroll, Pat Conroy, Khaled Hosseini, Yehoshua Kenaz, Stephen King, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Chang-rae Lee, Jonathan Lethem, Haruki Murakami, Amélie Nothomb, Kenzaburo Oe, Amos Oz, Chuck Palahniuk, Edeet Ravel, Meir Shalev (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Ellicott City, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Rockville Pike, City Lights Bookstore, Duck's Cottage, Emerald Isle Books & Toys, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Rockville, MD, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Wheaton, MD, Kensington Row Bookshop

Favorite librariesTwinbrook Library - Montgomery County Public Libraries (MD)

Other favoritesPour House Cafe, Kensington Day of the Book Festival, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart - Annual Used Book Sale, National Book Festival, LibraryThing H.Q.

About me I'm married and mother of three grown children. You can usually find me auditing clinical records, baking scones, birding, browsing the BookCrossing fora, buying used books, dieting (I know; I know! How does it go with baking scones and eating chocolate?), drinking coffee, eating chocolate, feeding 3 feral cats, or viewing foreign flicks. I work as quality auditor for a home health agency and as administrator for our family-based concrete contracting company. In the past, I have been called "the Johnny Appleseed of books"!

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My Reading Preferences:
I like both fiction and non-fiction. I prefer English translations of foreign (especially Middle Eastern or Asian) novels and books by lesser known authors. I'm attracted to matte-covered trade paperbacks as they seem more exotic than other books somehow.

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“In the junk business, we collect the ugly with the beautiful, the bizarre with the elegant, the valuable with the worthless, sometimes forgetting which is which, or intentionally inverting them. We do it because, well, we can. We have the power. Junkers know that all of us have the authority to assign value, that we don’t have to want the things we’re told to want, that it’s good to love that which seems to have no worth.” (Richard, Second Hand by Michael Zadoorian)

Updated: 04/26/08

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Real nameMadeline

LocationRockville, Maryland

EmailSqueakyChuhotmail.com

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Member sinceApr 15, 2006