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The almost moon : a novel by Alice Sebold
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic : a novel by Terry Jones
Beyond Beef : The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture by Jeremy Rifkin
Mad Mad Mad ML / Original ML B2g1f 2pack (Mad Libs (Unnumbered Paperback)) by Roger Price
Body Shaping: A Slim-Down, Shape-Up Guide to Conquering Your Body's Trouble Spots and Fat Zones by Michael Yessis
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories by Adam Haslett
All in the Timing : Fourteen Plays (Vintage Original) by David Ives
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GroupsAll the World's a Stage, Animals of the ASPCA, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Frequently Asked Questions, Los Angeles Loves Librarything, MySpace, Political Philosophy, Radical Feminism, Recommend Site Improvements &mdashshow all groups
Favorite authorsCecil Adams, Nicholson Baker, Douglas Carter Beane, Aimee Bender, Billy Collins, Patricia Cornwell, CrimethInc., Roald Dahl, Ariel Dorfman, Dave Eggers, Spalding Gray, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Parnell Hall, David Hare, Sparkle Hayter, Nick Hornby, Charlie Huston, Jonathan Kellerman, Lisa Kron, Anne Lamott, Jeff Lindsay, David Mamet, Chuck Palahniuk, Dorothy Parker, Katha Pollitt, Mary Roach, Nora Roberts, Arundhati Roy, Alice Sebold, David Sedaris, Tom Stoppard, Gore Vidal, Sarah Vowell, David Foster Wallace, Bill Watterson, Bailey White, Stephen White, Cintra Wilson (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresA Different Light Bookstore, Book Soup, Borders - Hollywood, Borders - Westwood - LA, Iliad Bookshop, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash - West, Samuel French, Skylight Books, The Bookshelf, The Mystery Bookstore, UCLA BookZone (UCLA Campus, Ackerman Student Union), Vroman's Bookstore
Favorite librariesArts Library (UCLA), Charles E. Young Research Library (UCLA), College Library in the Powell Library Building (UCLA), County of Los Angeles Public Library - West Hollywood Library, Los Angeles Public Library - Central Library, Los Angeles Public Library - Hollywood Regional Branch, Los Angeles Public Library - Westwood Branch, Los Angeles Public Library - Will & Ariel Durant Branch, Marion County Public Library - Fairmont Branch & Bookmobile, Ruth Ann Musick Library (Fairmont State University Main Campus Library), Southern California Genealogical Society Family Research Library
Other favoritesWest Hollywood Book Fair, 826LA West, Echo Park Time Travel Mart (826LA East), Royce Hall, UCLA, Hammer Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
About me"In this cultural context, books - whether read or unread - form a kind of second language to which we can turn to talk about ourselves, to communicate with others, and to defend ourselves in conflict. Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.
Like words, books, in representing us, also deform what we are. We cannot coincide completely with the image the totality of our reading presents; whether the image makes us look better or worse that we should, behind it, all our particularities vanish. And especially since books are often present within us only as little-known or forgotten fragments, we are often out of phase with the books that are our public face; they are inadequate, in the end, as any other language."
Pierre Bayard, "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read"
About my librarySo far, I've catalogued what I've actually got on my shelf here in Los Angeles, plus what I can remember about what I've got on my shelves back home in West Virginia, plus some favorite books I've borrowed from friends and libraries.
I was surprised that so much of it is nonfiction, and at what a large proportion is mystery series and plays...
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Currently readingHalf the Blood of Brooklyn: A Novel by Charlie Huston
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posted by callmejacx at 10:59 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2010
Saw you liked Trainspotting, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reading my new novel and posting your comments here (as well as on a few other book-related sites). Thought you might like my novel since it's also about a group of disturbed kids and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:
http://christophertusa.com/
Thanks,
Chris
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-kyliebeth
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posted by highland518 at 9:44 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2007
Thanks for the invitation. I have been interested to see some others in the group that are familiar with the Four Seasons bookstore in Shepherdstown.
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posted by wvlibrarydude at 10:43 pm (EST) on Oct 31, 2007
Go Mountaineers!
posted by AnjilaG at 9:50 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2007
Thanks for the invite to the West Virginians group. I joined and posted a message on the message board.
wcath
posted by wcath at 12:09 am (EST) on Oct 15, 2007
While you did win a book as part of Early Reviewers, I’m sorry to tell you that we had to take you off the list :-( Random House cannot send it to the mailing address you provided. They won’t send books without having the full names of recipients, which unfortunately they didn’t have in your case.
But hang in there! You should definitely register for Random House’s next batch, which will be here before you know it. Just make sure the “Full Name” field is filled out; it won’t be used for any other purpose aside from mailing.
Thanks for your patience,
Cliff
cliff@librarything.com
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