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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.

Homepagehttp://www.myspace.com/xiguli

LocationAlbuquerque, NM

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Member sinceApr 23, 2006