Member: SqueakyChu
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Reviews126 reviews
TagsTBR (98), short stories (57), fiction (48), cookbooks (45), 999 challenge (41), 75 books challenge 2009 (37), 50 book challenge 2008 (30), Japanese fiction (28), 888 challenge (26), needs cover (25) — see all tags
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Groups1010 Category Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2010, Birds, Birding & Books, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, BookCrossers, BookMooching, Books off the Shelf Challenge, Clarissa's Cottage, Club Read 2010, Cookbookers &mdashshow all groups, Dewey Decimal Challenge, Early Reviewers, Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge, Jewish Fiction, Librarything Local, Maryland Librarythingers, Mini-Challenge: 6 Degrees of Separation, National Book Festival, Non-Fiction Readers, Practical Organic Vegetable Growers, Readers Over Sixty, Reading Globally, Review Discussions, Reviews reviewed, THE ANYTHING CULINARY BOOK GROUP, Thingamabrarians That Flickr, Vegetarians and vegans, Washington, DC, Weird Fiction, What Are You Reading Now?
Favorite authorsJonathan Carroll, Khaled Hosseini, Yehoshua Kenaz, Stephen King, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Chang-rae Lee, Jonathan Lethem, Haruki Murakami, Amélie Nothomb, Tim O'Brien, Kenzaburo Oe, Amos Oz, Edeet Ravel, Meir Shalev (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Ellicott City, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Rockville Pike, City Lights Bookstore, Emerald Isle Books & Toys, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Rockville, MD, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Wheaton, MD, Politics and Prose, Silver Spring Books, The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc.
Favorite librariesTwinbrook 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
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. You can usually find me attending BookCrossing meet-ups, auditing nursing records, browsing the LibraryThing fora, buying used books, contemplating what to put into my vegetable garden next season, drinking coffee, eating chocolate, feeding 3 feral cats, figuring out sudoku, reading, or trying out new recipes (not necessarily in this order). In the past, I have been called "the Johnny Appleseed of books". :)
About my libraryCurrent Read(s): Click on image(s) for more information!
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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“Someday you’ll have to learn that your big mouth is the front gate of all your misfortune.” (Dr. Gregor Hnaciuk, The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson)
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Updated: 02/08/10
Homepagehttp://squeakychu.blogspot.com/
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Common KnowledgeSeries (50), Awards (382), Characters (1410), Places (404)
Member sinceApr 15, 2006
Currently readingTomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien
Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery) by Lois Lowry
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posted by Whisper1 at 8:46 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2010
Anything I would send to you would never be enough to thank you for all the support and comfort you have given me. I hope you know how much your kind words and guidance have helped me to help my beloved friend.
You are a shiny star!
posted by Whisper1 at 8:28 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2010
Love
Linda
posted by Whisper1 at 10:40 am (EST) on Feb 2, 2010
Again, I thank you for your communication.
You are such a wonderful, kind and sensitive soul!
Hugs
Linda
posted by Whisper1 at 12:04 am (EST) on Feb 2, 2010
I never make it through reading all the threads I've starred in a single sitting. It just takes too long. Then again, perhaps I've starred too many threads? But then how would I know what delicious teasing insults are being hurled at other members or what recipes are being shared or (and this is the scary part) what alluring reviews have been posted?
huh...now I have to go grocery shopping too ..... unless I can convince everyone at home that February 1 is traditionally canned soup for dinner day.
cheers
caroline
posted by cameling at 5:26 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2010
Thanks for your posts on my thread.
And, congratulations to you for yet another hot review. Thumbs up from me!
You must hold the record in our group for hot reviews! Your writing is crisp,clear and incredibly descriptive.
Do you have to write in your job, ie medical, technical reports?
Hugs
Linda
posted by Whisper1 at 4:23 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2010
I can't get the book as your setting says " not to my country"- I think that you have to change it to "ask first"
Cyrel
posted by torontoc at 3:17 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2010
Cyrel
posted by torontoc at 3:07 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2010
posted by labooshki at 11:26 am (EST) on Jan 22, 2010
posted by keegopatrick at 10:13 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2010
I'm sending this through a comment rather than in your thread as I do not want to give away things to anyone who might add to their wishlist.
posted by sydamy at 9:50 am (EST) on Jan 14, 2010
Congratulations on your hot review listed on today's home page!
Linda
posted by Whisper1 at 10:02 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2010
Rae
posted by RaeBear at 11:06 am (EST) on Jan 8, 2010
posted by Whisper1 at 9:09 am (EST) on Jan 8, 2010
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