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". :)

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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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Notable Quote:
“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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Real nameMadeline

LocationRockville, MD

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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