Member: SusieBookworm

CollectionsYour library (1,967), At College (126), Favorites (100), To read (991), Short TBR List (14), Summer 2013 TBR Cleanout (130), Re-enactor Library (147), Started But Never Finished (39), Currently reading (4), All collections (1,967)

Reviews285 reviews

TagsTBR (1,004), read it (927), fiction (368), historical fiction (364), nonfiction (299), fantasy (257), sci-fi (243), 19th century literature (219), mystery (200), history (135) — see all tags

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About meTeenage bibliophile and book blogger who plays trombone and French horn when not reading or working on homework (reading by choice, homework not). In my first year at Univ. of Oklahoma with majors in anthropology, history, and/or English lit with assorted minors and concentrations (how does one ever decide?!). I'm interested in almost everything under the sun with the exceptions of contemporary politics and economics, and my other pastimes include historical re-enactment and interpretation at colonial and Civil War sites.

Currently reading:
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

Book Count for 2009: 88
Book Count for 2010: 92
Book Count for 2011: 108
Book Count for 2012: 139

Books I've read in 2013:
The Epic of Qayaq by Lela Kiana Oman
Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
America B.C. by Barry Fell
The Demi-Monde: Winter by Rod Rees
The Shadow Wars by Rod Rees
Long Before Columbus by Hans Holzer
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
The Historians' Paradox by Peter Charles Hoffer
In a Perfect World by Laura Kasischke
Believing is Seeing by Mary Anne Staniszewski
The Island of Last Truth by Flavia Company
The Kingdom of Matthias by Paul E. Johnson & Sean Wilentz
Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson
The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
Temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors
Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
The Right and the Real by Joelle Anthony
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Fox Forever by Mary E. Pearson
The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Montillo
Stalin's Barber by Paul M. Levitt
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein
Mountain Jack Tales by Gail E. Haley
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
Doing Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie
The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
Midnight at the Barrelhouse by George Lipsitz
The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran
The City of Bohane by Kevin Barry

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges

"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." Groucho Marx

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About my libraryI like to say I have eclectic tastes. Most of my library is children's/YA plus a lot of "classics" and other old(er) books. I used to collect (and still do sometimes) "vintage" children's mysteries such as Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Dana Girls, and Ruth Fielding. My current literary interests include pre-1950 sci-fi/fantasy novels, world fiction from before about 1920 or so, and modern dystopias, utopias, and magical realism, as well as retellings, add-ons, etc. of classic stories and novels. Oh, and folklore and mythology, and 18th century fiction, and anything from Black Coat Press, Valancourt Books, Zittaw Press, Penguin and Oxford Classics, NYRB...

My ratings:
5 stars - great book, loved it, perfect
4 stars - pretty good book, decent read
3 stars - hated it (children's books in a large series - i.e., Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, etc. - are often rated like this just because they're all basically the same)

Groups18th Century British Literature, Archaeology, Arthurian Legends, Bloggers, Dear America, dystopia, Dystopian novels, Fairy Tales Retold, Feminist SF, Geeks who love the Classics —show all groups, Historical Fiction, In Translation, Literary Snobs, North Carolina LT Group, Post-apocalyptic Literature, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Read YA Lit, Tattered but still lovely, Utopian Literature

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Meg Cabot, Isobelle Carmody, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nancy Farmer, Henry Fielding, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karen Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Harper Lee, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, Jane Webb Loudon, George MacDonald, Tamora Pierce, Philip Pullman, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresFireside Bookstore, Literary BookPost

Favorite publishersNYRB Classics

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Real nameSusanna

LocationNorth Carolina/Oklahoma

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Member sinceAug 11, 2007

Currently readingAmerica's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century by Peter W. Williams
Poems by Hermann Hesse
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse
Introduction to Museum Work by Ellis G. Burcaw