Member: SusieBookworm

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Groups18th Century British Literature, Anglophiles, Band Geeks, BookMooching, Children's Fiction, Dear America, Douglas Adams, dystopia, Dystopian novels, Early American Literature — show all groups , FantasyFans, Geeks who love the Classics, Gothic Literature, LibraryThing Book Challenge, Literary Snobs, North Carolina LT Group, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Science Fiction Fans, Science!, Tar Heels who LibraryThing, The Canny Spartan, Victoriana

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Meg Cabot, Isobelle Carmody, Alexandre Dumas, Nancy Farmer, Henry Fielding, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karen Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Harper Lee, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Stephenie Meyer, Scott O'Dell, Tamora Pierce, Philip Pullman, Ayn Rand, Voltaire, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)

About meI am an aspiring museum curator who enjoys dancing (ballet, tap, and English country), historical interpretation/reenactment, reading, and playing trombone and French horn. I am hoping to major either in English or literature when I transfer to a four-year college in a few years.

Currently reading:
Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines
Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler

To be read:
Good grief. All my books tagged TBR, a lot of my parent's books, new books in several series...my summer project this year is reading as many of my books as I can that I have not read yet. That's, like, over 200?

Books I've read in 2009:
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Utopia by Thomas More
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley
Secresy by Eliza Fenwick
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Comedies: Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus by Ludvig Holberg
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust, Parts One and Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
Fragment by Warren Fahy
The Mummy! by Jane Loudon
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories by Voltaire
Fair Weather by Richard Peck
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Typee by Herman Melville
Looking Backwards 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Max by James Patterson
Lilith by George MacDonald
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Ourika by Claire de Duras
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Shamela by Henry Fielding
Anti-Pamela by Eliza Haywood
Silas Marner by George Eliot
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Eclipsed by Shadow by John Royce
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Learning Earth's Deathly History by William Bailey
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Hollow Earth by David Standish
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"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

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
Arnold Lobel

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About my libraryMost of the books that I've had for a few years are children's books, but my books that fall under the "classic" category are, for the most part, more recent acquisitions that I've found as what I like to read has switched from juvenile fiction to older literature. I currently have a particular interest in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, science fiction from before 1920, and utopian and dystopian novels. I also collect old children's mystery series like Nancy Drew, Dana Girls, Hardy Boys, and Ruth Fielding.
My oldest book is an abridged copy of Pamela by Samuel Richardson from 1791; my second oldest is the eighth volume of The Spectator from 1803.

Books tagged "bookmooch" are moochable from me on BookMooch.

My ratings:
5 stars - great book, loved it
4 stars - pretty good book
3 stars - from decent, average book to hated it

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Real nameSusanna

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Member sinceAug 11, 2007