Random books from Xiguli's library
The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller
Blow-Up : And Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
The Muffin Fiend by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The Fan Man (Vintage Contemporaries) by William Kotzwinkle
General Zapped an Angel by Howard Fast
Red Riding Hood by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
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Friends: john_sunseri, jseger9000, scfaulkner
Interesting libraries: jargoneer, WashingtonSquare
Member: Xiguli
Library748 books — see library
Reviews10 reviews — see reviews
Cloudstag cloud, author cloud
Tagschildren's (77), illustrated (54), stories (31), thriftscore (25), poetry (19), unread (18), promo (17), read but not owned (16), boxed set (13), really oughta re-read (10) — see all tags
GroupsGeeks who love the Classics, Girlybooks, Hands Across the Sea Book Club, Happy Heathens, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), Writer-readers
Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Donald Barthelme, David Berman, Francesca Lia Block, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Browne, Italo Calvino, Raymond Chandler, Colette, Philip K. Dick, Jules Feiffer, Nikolai Gogol, Edward Gorey, Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey, Chuck Klosterman, L.M. Montgomery, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Philip Pullman, Vladimir Radunsky, Anne Sexton, Shel Silverstein, Lane Smith, Tomi Ungerer, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAcequia Booksellers, Birdsong Used Books, Book Stop
About me In this environment, it's all about what you say and how you say it. Try to be a little interesting, and stop it with the overdone niceties already. ...That is, if you want to appeal to my tastes. Which you likely won't, in which case please carry on and I tip my tawdry little hat to you.
Is the internets an elaborate application form I never manage to finish? Quite. So please forgive me if I direct you to my Myspace page for efforts at autobiography. It's not exactly thrilling, either, but I can only spend so much time in self-absorbed documentation of my life.
About my library Self-absorbed documentation of my books, however, is a different story.
Too much stuff, that's what I have. Which means that if I own it, I probably either like it or haven't yet read it. So a rating of a mere three stars is meant to convey that it's a perfectly good book, worth reading. Four stars are for books I find amazing, that really opened up my mind or captured something exquisite. And 4.5-5 stars mean that a book is shamelessly beloved or was deeply formative and essential to my happiness. It doesn't mean I think it's great literature, since I'd say To the Lighthouse and The Monster at the end of this Book are both fives, but they're clearly very different kinds of accomplishments.
As a decade-long bookstore lackey (until very recently), I checked out many, many books, often brand new releases. Since those had a time limit, that's what I read. But you can't work in a bookstore and not hand a chunk of your paycheck right back every week, so now I own a lot of books that will be enjoyed when their time is right.
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LocationAlbuquerque, NM
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Member sinceApr 23, 2006


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posted by elvisettey at 12:53 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2008
posted by scfaulkner at 4:53 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2008
I must be getting predictable in my dotage.
posted by scfaulkner at 4:29 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2008
Haven't read Britonomicon.
You'll really like Hollow Chocolate Bunnies, as well.
He's my new jesus.
posted by scfaulkner at 7:12 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2008
You are a fine and noble being who shall forever remain in the corner.
Amen.
Also, check out Rankin. He's my new favoritest.
Cheers,
-SCF
posted by scfaulkner at 4:04 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2008
Let's see...I've been working my way through Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels (I'm on the fourth one right now), I just finished the latest Spenser book by Robert B. Parker and I'm reading a book on Thermopylae. In the TBR stack is The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates (research for a story I have to write), Anne Lamott's 'Bird by Bird' and I'm going to go back to the Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway after those. How 'bout you? Anything fascinating on your list for 2008?
posted by john_sunseri at 4:05 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2008
I have several woman writers that I follow (mostly horror writers: Sarah Pinborough, Deborah LeBlanc, Sarah Langan), just I don't list a writer as a 'favorite' until I've read a couple of really terrific books by them.
As for the 'classic' woman writers I've been promising myself that I would read Jane Austen and the Brontes sooner or later. Alas, like you my TBR pile is huge and ever expanding. If you look through my 1,200 books, anything without a rating is either a book I did not yet read or read so long ago I've forgotten most of it. Like you, I have some MAJOR catching up to do.
And hey, I love the hippies. How could I not like being called a freak? Let your freak flag fly!
posted by jseger9000 at 10:38 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2008
Looking at your list of favorite authors, I'm realizing I am not as widely read as I'd like to be.
posted by jseger9000 at 1:38 am (EST) on Jan 1, 2008
posted by Amtep at 6:46 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2007
posted by jseger9000 at 11:25 pm (EST) on Dec 18, 2007
posted by john_sunseri at 10:15 pm (EST) on Dec 4, 2007
posted by tim_watkinson at 3:21 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2007
i was considering "alluding to organic bondage" and "read and sweat or laugh right out loud"
but then there's all those stares across the room.
posted by timwatkinson at 10:35 am (EST) on Aug 25, 2006
posted by jakemass48 at 2:36 pm (EST) on Jul 10, 2006
posted by Snigglefritz at 11:11 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2006
posted by jkcohen at 4:06 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2006
about indexing novels ... I think that if you've got the urge to do it you should just do it ... but only if it's a book that holds some mysterious erotic (not porno) power for you ... you gotta love the book ... and yr right, it's no path to fame ... but it does offer a certain quirky self-satisfaction ... for a while
posted by brtom at 6:26 pm (EST) on May 28, 2006
posted by Snigglefritz at 1:50 pm (EST) on May 25, 2006
posted by howie at 12:55 am (EST) on May 10, 2006
posted by Snigglefritz at 2:27 am (EST) on May 7, 2006
posted by cassini at 3:06 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2006
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