Member: SqueakyChu

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About meIntroduction To Me:

I'm LT User #34,867. I'm married, mother of three grown children, and proud grandmother of a grandson. I work as quality auditor for a home health agency and as administrator for our family-based concrete contracting company. Want to know what I'm doing? You can usually find me attending BookCrossing Meet-Ups, auditing nursing records, birdwatching, browsing the LibraryThing fora, drinking coffee, editing my CSA Newsletter, feeding 3 feral cats, planting native species plants, or thinking up new TIOLI challenges (not necessarily at the same time). 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.

My Wishlist on BookMooch: where I can try to actually find some of these books.

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“Faulty memory and distraction are a particular danger in what engineers call all-or-none processes: whether running to the store to buy ingredients for a cake, preparing an airplane for takeoff, or evaluating a sick person in the hospital, if you miss just one key thing, you might as well not have made the effort at all.” (The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande).

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Groups15,000 for 2013, 2013 Category Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, BookCrossers, BookMooching, Bug Collectors, Canadian Fiction/Non-Fiction Reading Challenge, Clarissa's Cottage, Dewey Decimal Challenge —show all groups, Early Reviewers, Gardens & Books, Gothic Literature, Hobnob with Authors, Jewish Fiction, LibraryThing Gatherings and Meetups, Librarything Local, Maryland Librarythingers, Medicine, National Book Festival, Non-Fiction Challenge / Journal, Orange January/July, Pinning on Pinterest, Reading Globally, ROOT - 2013 Read Our Own Tomes, Sustainability, To List or Not to List (now that it's a feature), Vegetarians and vegans, Weird Fiction

Favorite authorsJonathan Carroll, Pat Conroy, Curt Finch, Atul Gawande, Khaled Hosseini, Sayed Kashua, Yehoshua Kenaz, Stephen King, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Chang-Rae Lee, Patrick McGrath, Haruki Murakami, Amélie Nothomb, Tim O'Brien, Kenzaburō Ōe, Amos Oz, Edeet Ravel, Haim Sabato, Meir Shalev, Michael Zadoorian (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Ellicott City, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Rockville Pike, Beach Book Mart, Daedalus Books & Music - Columbia, Emerald Isle Books & Toys, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Rockville, MD, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Wheaton, MD, Labyrinth Books, Second Story Books, Second Story Books - Rockville, MD, Silver Spring Books, The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc.

Favorite librariesBaltimore County Public Library - Catonsville Library, Twinbrook Library - Montgomery County Public Libraries (MD)

Other favoritesKensington Day of the Book Festival, Stone Ridge Used Book Sale, National Book Festival, LibraryThing H.Q., BC in DC - Bookcrossers of MD/DC/VA, Tikvat Israel Congregation, Gaithersburg Book Festival - 2011, Kensington International Day of the Book Festival - 2013

Homepagehttp://squeakychu.blogspot.com/

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Real nameMadeline

LocationRockville, MD

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/SqueakyChu (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/SqueakyChu (library)

Member sinceApr 15, 2006

Currently readingMountain, Log, Salt, and Stone by Laura Shovan
Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewycka
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan
Night Film: A Novel by Marisha Pessl