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The Big Book of Potluck: Good Food - and Lots of It - for Parties, Gatherings, and All Occasions by Maryana Vollstedt
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Favorite authorsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Louisa May Alcott, Patricia Anthony, Margaret Atwood, Trezza Azzopardi, Anita Rau Badami, Juliana Baggott, Elizabeth Bishop, Martin Booth, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Suzy McKee Charnas, Nancy F. Cott, A. J. Cronin, John Crowley, Emily Dickinson, Assia Djebar, Thomas Dublin, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, George Eliot, Nawal El-Saadawi, Buchi Emecheta, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Gaskell, Amitav Ghosh, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lisa Goldstein, Kate Grenville, Ursula K. Le Guin, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Elizabeth Hand, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, David Herter, Reginald Hill, Nalo Hopkinson, Arnaldur Indriðason, Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Gail Jones, Graham Joyce, James Patrick Kelly, Margo Lanagan, Margot Livesey, Amy Lowell, Ian R. MacLeod, Henning Mankell, Maureen F. McHugh, China Mieville, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Beth Norton, Joyce Carol Oates, Yôko Ogawa, Sharon Olds, Boris Pasternak, Viktor Pelevin, Ian Rankin, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, Mary Doria Russell, Robert Shearman, Elaine Showalter, May Swenson, Deborah Tannen, Sheri S. Tepper, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Jeff VanderMeer, Kate Douglas Wiggin, William Carlos Williams (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresOld Number Six Book Depot, Toadstool Bookshop - Milford
Favorite librariesJ. V. Fletcher Library
About meWomyn, wife & mother of three 20-somethings who no longer live at home. Former bookseller (which explains all the ARCs).
CURRENT PICTURE: 1991. 2 of 3 of my children.
MY READING: I enjoy ALL kinds of fiction, poetry, women's studies, social history, New England history, art history, literary criticism, a smattering of science, nature and whatever else peaks my interest. MY 2009 BOOKLOG is HERE. My 2008 booklog is on the 75 Book Challenge group HERE, if you're interested.
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The Mysteries of Winterthurn by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (audio in the car)
The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith (short fiction)
Bodies by Susie Orbach (essay, UK author)
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter (literary history, ongoing)
Flash Fiction (ongoing)
Great Classic Stories (audio, ongoing, mostly when I'm hand sewing)
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My Driver by Maggie Gee
If Here be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents: A Memoir by Gregory Rabassa (memoir, US author)
Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason (mystery, Icelandic author)
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (reread, novel, Canadian)
By the North Gate by Joyce Carol Oates (short fiction)
Four Freedoms by John Crowley (novel, WWII era)
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (Japanese author)
Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun (novel, Moroccan author)
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (novel, forthcoming Sept.'09)
The Seamstress by Frances De Pontes Peebles (fiction, Brazilian author)
Nadia by Assia Djebar (fiction, Algerian author, written when she was 20!)
Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto (fiction, Mozambique)
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker, edited by Elaine Forman Crane (diary, 18th century American)
The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates (suspense, short fiction)
The Black Path by Asa Larsson (mystery, Swedish author)
Flash Fiction Forward, edited by James Thomas & Robert Shapard (anthology)
I'd Like by Amanda Michalopoulou (short fiction, Greek author)
Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian (short fiction, Tibet, Chinese author)
Dear Husband : Stories, Joyce Carol Oates (ongoing, short fiction collection)
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage (fiction, Canadian-Lebanonese author)
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley (science fiction, UK author)
Enclave by Kit Reed (science fiction)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (fiction, Pakistani author)
*A Good Master Well-Served: A Social History of Servitude in Massachusetts 1620-1750. Dissertation by Lawrence William Towner, 1954 (courtesy of UMich)
The City and the City by China Miéville (fiction, UK author)
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll (fiction, US author)
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels (fiction, Egypt/Canada, Canadian author)
*The Coquette by Hannah Foster (fiction, late 18th C, US author)
Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese women by Japanese women by Amy Yamada et al. (short fiction anthology, Japanese authors)
Tinkers by Paul Harding (fiction, US author)
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa (short fiction collection, Japanese author)
The Man who Smiled by Henning Mankell (mystery, Swedish author)
*research-related
The Last of 2008
A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaos in the Heartland by Jessica Goodfellow (poetry, US).
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical by Robert Sherman (short fiction, UK)
The Imposter by Damon Galgut (fiction, South African)
The Situation by Jeff VanderMeer (fiction, US)
Firewall by Henning Mankell (mystery, Swedish author)
Delirium by Laura Restapo (fiction, Colombian author)
A Mercy by Toni Morrison (fiction, US author)
About my libraryavaland2: 2nd account opened exactly one year after the first for mostly children's books, mine or my grown children's, and other odds and ends of theirs.
dukedom_enough: husband, scientist and reader extraordinaire. Our libraries are quite married physically, but are separate on LT with overlap. He has much more data entry to do.
anguissette1979; Reeshy Daughter's accounts which are perhaps incomplete and not terribly active.
MY RATINGS
My ratings average high because I rarely finish a book I don't like. I find it difficult to rate some kinds of books (i.e poetry, memoirs), so I don't. My ratings for books read decades ago are current (since I came on LT in '06) and in relationship to my reading now, so they may not be accurate. I may have thought the book a five back in the 70's but looking back now, it might score a three...know what I mean?
MY COMMENTS/REVIEWS
I prefer to call these comments or feedback, not reviews as I don't aim to produce critical reviews. I do aim to tell you, as if you are sitting across the table from me, what I thought about a book. Some of my older recommendations may have been originally sent as bookseller recommendations to Booksense (American Booksellers Association). And those are just that, recommendations.
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posted by tiffin at 5:46 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2009
and thank you for taking time to write a note to me. I have to confess I enjoy browsing other LT's sites to see what "they're made of" so to speak. I find many readers' collections interesting who has amassed books in the thousands. (Maybe I'm close to it, too, but have yet to find out.)
I'm also relatively new to this site, and it will take me awhile to complete listing my library (still in boxes for the most part).
I wish you lots more good reading, and all the best!
Marie
posted by babyblues47 at 8:32 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2009
I have been away from a computer for two weeks, so have lots of catching up to do. I have accepted your invitation to the website workspace group, but it may be a day or two before i can make contribution.
Andy
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