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Handle with Care: A Novel by Jodi Picoult

Lisey's Story: A Novel by Stephen King

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews

The Old Man and the Sea (A Scribner Classic) by Ernest Hemingway

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde

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CollectionsYour library (44), Chris' Library (11), Periodicals (2), Wishlist (290), Currently reading (5), To read (42), Read but unowned (45), Favorites (18), LT Early Reviewers (3), Someday Book Club (16), RGG Side Reads (13), MZ's Pulitzer Challenge (5), The Happy Bookers Club (13), 999 Challenge (37), Alphabet Challenges (5), Read in 2009 (26), Read in 2008 (30), Read in 2007 (9), All collections (402)

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TagsER (80), August 2009 (80), October 2009 (60), September 2009 (53), July 2009 (51), June 2009 (50), MG (42), 999 CHALLENGE (37), LIBRARY (29), Literary (27) — see all tags

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Groups1010 Category Challenge, 50 Book Challenge, 999 Challenge, 999 The Brothers Karamazov, Alphabet Challenges, Cats, books, life is good., Club Read 2009, Pulitzer Fiction Challenge, Tea!, The Prizes — show all groups

Favorite authorsCharlotte Brontë, Diane Chamberlain, Jasper Fforde, Susan Fletcher, Steven Galloway, Sara Gruen, Ernest Hemingway, John Irving, Erik Larson, Irène Némirovski, Audrey Niffenegger, Marisha Pessl, Jodi Picoult, J. K. Rowling, Richard Russo, Anya Seton (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Westwood, Blue Bicycle Books

Favorite librariesCharleston County Public Library - Main Library, Charleston County Public Library - St. Andrews Regional Library

About meI love books and reading. I cannot remember a time when I didn't. I buy far more books than I am capable of reading and then there is the library too. My busy life gets in the way of reading as much as I wish I could.

I am a 28 year old student of pharmacy. I live in Charleston, SC with my husband, Chris, and our two cats, BIN and Sakai. (Neither of my cats is the cat in the photo. It's just a random photo I liked off the web.) I also enjoy learning/school (I'd be a permanent student if I won the lotto), writing, art, films, music, and spending a bit too much time on the internet.

About my libraryI use my LT account to keep track of everything I've read or started to read, whether I own it, have borrowed it, or it's from the library. Books are tagged appropriately in caps bookshelved - now the collection My Library - (if we own it), name of who I borrowed it from, or library. This info is also in my comments section. If it's a book club read or a book challenge, it's also tagged - now collections - as so and written in the comments. I started tagging all this so I could sort by various things, - but now some of these tags have become collections. (I needed to change my profile to take into account how I've reorganized My Books since collections have debuted, but I can't be bothered rewriting this section at the moment so I just edited the parts I've changed from tags to collections. This has probably only made it more confusing.)

My wishlist is any book I might be interested in reading, not books I want to own a copy of.

My favorite authors list isn't a true representation of all my favorite authors. Rather, it's a list of authors whose books I've really enjoyed since I've started logging my reading on LT. If I started to make a list of all my favorite authors so far in my lifetime, I'd just be sitting here and adding authors for hours.

I rate my books based on how the book compares to other books of the same type. So a good junky romance/suspense novel isn't on the same level as a good literary fiction, it's just good compared to other junky romance/suspense novels. This is my star rating scale:

5 = Loved it! Unputdownable!
4.5 = Excellent!
4 = Very Good
3.5 = Good
3 = Above Average
2.5 = Average
2 or less = Nah

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Up next possibly:
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevelier
A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Killer Angel by Michael Shaara
Midnight in Death by J.D. Robb
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Great Expectation by Charles Dickens
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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Common KnowledgeSeries (53), Awards (248), Characters (1573), Places (324)

Member sinceAug 2, 2007

Currently readingMethland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding
Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Bram Stoker
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Believer * Sixty-Fourth Issue: The Music Issue * July/August 2009 (Vol. 6, No. 7) by Heidi Julavits
McSweeney's 32 - 2024 AD by Dave Eggers

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The Complete Chile Pepper Book: A Gardener's Guide to Choosing, Growing, Preserving, and Cooking by Dave DeWitt

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Winnie and Wolf: A Novel by A. N. Wilson

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The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Myers

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The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson

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Spinning Forward by Terri Dulong

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Season of Ash: A Novel in Three Acts by Jorge Volpi

So you're NaNo-ing...? My handle on NaNo is "Mudge the Expendable", if you're interested in following along there.

50K or bust,
RMD

posted by richardderus at 10:55 am (EST) on Oct 30, 2009

Just to let you know, I finally finished reading "Moonlight in Odessa" that I got from the ER program and loved it - I hope you can find a copy soon.

posted by sjmccreary at 12:34 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2009

Oh, way back, then, I see. Most of the Polish emigrants I know or know of are more recent than that and still have quite strong links with here, that's why I asked.

I see you've just added The Rabbi's Cat - I want to read that too!

R

posted by rachbxl at 6:32 am (EST) on Sep 7, 2009

That's a good idea - I always have to go to the works page and see what the book is because I don't remember which ones I requested, let alone what they are about.

posted by sjmccreary at 6:52 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

I just saw the message from Abby that I won a copy of Moonlight in Odessa from the August ER batch. When I went to the works page for the book I saw that you also have a copy - have you already gotten it, or are you expecting it from the ER program like I am?

posted by sjmccreary at 12:01 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

Thanks for adding my library to your interesting libraries - I'm flattered. I'm looking forward to browsing yours later today...

Rachel

posted by rachbxl at 4:18 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2009

Jenn,
Thanks for the nice note. Your books will be on their way today...I accepted your friend invitation but have deleted the note with your address...my mother would say that's the right thing to do:) Very security conscious, she is. Car buying can be most stressful. I lived with a car salesman for several years and I must say...the business is most peculiar. Hope you got a good deal because they are hungry right now.
Hope you enjoy the books.
My Best,
Diana

posted by DianaCoats at 12:55 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

Hey Chrine,

Just looking over your wishlist and came across two books that I am ready to pass on. I received "The Elephant Keeper" from Library Thing. So, it's an Advanced Reader Trade sized paperback. It's in very good condition.
The other is Angel's game. It is also an advanced reader copy. My partner works at B & N and she received it there. B & N writes black numbers (very annoying) along the outside facing page edges...Perfectly readable copy in good condition...but those numbers are annoying if your book sits on a shelf lower than eye level!
I would be happy to send these off to you if you privately send me your address. I give some books away on Bookmooch but have far too many points to use and don't need any more and I didn't see any bookcrossing buddies who wanted these two books so I thought I would check with LT people.
Let me know.
Diana

posted by DianaCoats at 11:43 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2009

I love Forbidden Bread! I'm an immigrant from Eastern Europe, so everything she describes is close to my heart. It's sort of like a reverse mail-order bride story.

posted by verka6811 at 11:22 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2009

hi chrine,

thanks for dropping by my thread. looking forward to know what you think of those titles you're now reading, especially A House for Mr. Biswas (like darryl, Naipaul is also a favorite of mine).

posted by deebee1 at 4:35 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2009

¡Hola Chrine! I'm sorry to hear about your illness, but glad to hear that you're doing better. Thanks for the information on displaying book covers; I didn't know how to alter the height of pictures, so that's very helpful.

Darryl

posted by kidzdoc at 10:59 am (EST) on Jun 14, 2009

¡Hola chrine! Thanks for adding my library; I'll have to look at yours, too. BTW, how did you get the book covers to appear on your profile page? I'll be curious to get your thoughts on A House for Mr. Biswas, which is one of my all time favorites.

Best wishes,

Darryl

posted by kidzdoc at 4:31 pm (EST) on May 17, 2009

Thanks for adding my library to your list of interesting ones. Hope you find a few good books there!

~Deborah

posted by Cariola at 10:36 am (EST) on May 15, 2009

I didn't realize you where in Charleston. I have to get back there sometime.

posted by VictoriaPL at 8:51 am (EST) on May 15, 2009

Hi Chrine!...Thanks so much for starting the "finished the challenge Thread" I decided to say thanks here rather than fill up the thread before anybody even finished. I think I'm the guilty one who started the 999 x 2 business--just plain had too many books to fit into one group of 9 categories.

I've starred the finished thread and will be watching as everyone clocks in.. I'll probably be finished my first challenge by end of August, but i'm sometimes shifting things between the two to fit them into various categories. I have a lot that overlap..

Once again, good luck with your reading.

posted by tututhefirst at 11:59 am (EST) on May 9, 2009

Hello Chrine,

Thank you for your very kind and encouraging comments on my book.

- TT

posted by TheTortoise at 1:19 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

Hello Chrine,

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy my story.
I like the picture of the bibliophilic pussy!

- TT

posted by TheTortoise at 12:42 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

Some of them are professors, but not me!

posted by fannyprice at 10:49 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2009

Oh dear - I hope you're teasing in your admiration of my writing! I am horribly stupid and barely literate compared to many in Club Read 2009!

posted by fannyprice at 12:25 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2009

hi chrine,

glad to know you're acquainted with the Author Theme group...hope to see you joining in the talk some time.

here's the link to my 2009 reads

http://www.librarything.com/topic/53307#...

good luck with the Brothers! :-)

posted by deebee1 at 6:47 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009

hi chrine,

i read your posts about reading Brothers K. perhaps you'd like to join us over at Author Theme Reads group? we are doing a year-long read of Dostoevsky's works and some have opted to start with this monumental book.

posted by deebee1 at 10:14 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2009

Re your comment about Jasper Fforde books - I did go to the library today and got an audio copy of "Something Rotten". I'm currently struggling with my concentration levels, but there was something about the way that the Eyre Affair was written that I loved. It's a book I will read again, when I can focus a bit harder, and probably when I've read some of the other books by the same author.

Michaela
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posted by Fluffyblue at 4:45 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2009

Hello chine,

I saw your note on the 'Tea' group about needing to buy tea online. My favorite spot is www.adagio.com which has not only black teas, but white, green and roobois teas as well. They also have different types of teaware.

Stasia, aka AlcottAcre

posted by alcottacre at 2:53 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2009

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