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The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness by Martha Stout
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
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About meI teach, I travel, I read and I write. I just returned to America after 3 years of teaching in Tokyo. Now I'm teaching high school back in my home town of Tulsa, OK. Last year, I traveled across many obscure countries whose names end with -stan and finally met my goal of visiting more countries than I've lived years on the planet.
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posted by biblionut at 9:30 am (EST) on May 14, 2009
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Thought this might be of interest: (seeing your recent review of This Cold Heaven)
~Steven
Farthest North: The End of Ice
A circumpolar journey in the International Polar Year 2007-2008
Gretel Ehrlich has received a National Geographic Expeditions Grant for the International Polar Year 2007 during which she will make a circumpolar journey to talk with indigenous Arctic people at the top of the world about how their lives are being affected by the climate crisis.
See National Geographic article in the Jan, 2006 edition:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0...
Ehrlich will travel from Arctic Alaska, across Nunavut, to NW Greenland, northwestern Russia, and Chukotka in NE Siberia, traveling by skin boat, fixed wing plane, helicopter, reindeer, and dogsled, gathering traditional and ecological knowledge from elders, hunters, and village people as they face the crisis of extinction – of a culture and an entire ecosystem.
Farthest North: THE END OF ICE will be a book, a magazine piece, a website, and a documentary film, with updates on “Morning Edition” by SAT phone from the field. On her website: THE END OF ICE, it will be possible to follow her circumboreal travels, to read her journal updates, see images from the top of the world, and listen to Arctic people as they tell the world about their plight.
Follow Gretel and the project at:
www.point-hope.com
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posted by lindsacl at 3:53 pm (EST) on May 21, 2007
Your review of The Scarlet Letter also took me down memory lane. 10th grade reading for me too! I still have my book (now more than 20 years old) with my marginalia and highlighting. If I ever re-read it, I will have to get a new copy. =)
I am also fascinated in the Japanese literature you have reviewed. Which one is your favorite?
posted by mrstreme at 1:54 pm (EST) on May 20, 2007
Also, I read your entries on LiveJournal - you are a wonderful writer. Your story about the bank made me laugh out loud - and my son too, who especially liked the sentences that contained "poop" (go figure). I started a LiveJournal account last weekend and not quite sure what I will do with it. I need to play around some more.
Happy Reading!
Jill =)
posted by mrstreme at 7:48 am (EST) on May 20, 2007
I am very disciplined, as you noted, about reading books outside my comfort zone, however it must be well written, (within the scope of the genre, if it is genre fiction). I cannot tolerate poor writing, nor can I read it!
posted by kambrogi at 8:11 am (EST) on May 15, 2007
So, of the vast numbers in your library, what are your favorite books?
posted by kambrogi at 7:23 am (EST) on May 15, 2007
Currently I have these three books of Japanese fiction traveling round the world and being shared by others:
South of the Border; West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf
As you see, I have lots more Japanese fiction on my TBR list. Who knows when I'll ever get to them! :-(
P.S. I saw your affinity as 99%!
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