Member: SqueakyChu

CollectionsYour library (646), BookCrossing Bookrays (6), Borrowed from Others (2), Chepe's Permanent Collection (4), Cookbooks (57), Currently reading (3), Early Reviewer (30), Library Book or CD (1), Loaned to Others (4), Permanent Collection (51), Read but unowned (295), Reference (41), To read (445), Wishlist (209), All collections (1,158)

Reviews288 reviews

Tagsshort stories (71), cookbooks (46), fiction (41), Japanese fiction (28), needs cover (23), Israeli fiction (23), ARC (22), memoirs (20), food (17), signed (16) — see all tags

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Recommendations134 recommendations

Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 15,000 Page Club for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, BookCrossers, BookMooching, Canadian Fiction/Non-Fiction Reading Challenge, Clarissa's Cottage, Club Read 2011 —show all groups, Dewey Decimal Challenge, Early Reviewers, Gothic Literature, Hobnob with Authors, Jewish Fiction, LibraryThing Gatherings and Meetups, Librarything Local, Maryland Librarythingers, Medicine, National Book Festival, Non-Fiction Challenge / Journal, Occupy Wall Street Libraries, Orange January/July, Reading Globally, Weird Fiction

Favorite authorsJonathan Carroll, Pat Conroy, 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, Catherine M. Petrini, Edeet Ravel, Haim Sabato, Meir Shalev, Michael Zadoorian (Shared favorites)

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, Politics and Prose, Second Story Books, Silver Spring Books, The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc.

Favorite librariesOccupy DC 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

About meIntroduction To Me:

I'm LT User #34,867. Married and mother of three grown children, 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, browsing the LibraryThing fora, counting calories, drinking coffee, editing my CSA Newsletter, feeding 3 feral cats, pulling up invasive plant species, or thinking up new TIOLI challenges (not necessarily at the same time). In the past, I have been called "the Johnny Appleseed of books". :)

About my libraryMy current personal thread on LT:
75 Books in 2011 challenge - Come visit my thread!

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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Updated: 01/01/12

Homepagehttp://squeakychu.blogspot.com/

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Real nameMadeline

LocationRockville, MD

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URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/SqueakyChu (profile)
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Member sinceApr 15, 2006

Currently readingSister Teresa : the woman who became Saint Teresa of Avila by Barbara Louise Mujica
Riding lessons by Sara Gruen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen