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Tagsowned (648), unread (272), fiction (257), non-fiction (220), unowned (138), 20c literature (133), women writers (74), library (71), YA literature (66), TBR (60) — see all tags

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, 30-something LibraryThingers, 75 Books Challenge for 2008, 888 Challenge, Anglophiles, Animal Lovers, Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Biographies of eccentrics and outsiders — show all groups

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Rachid al-Daif, Hiroshige Andˆo, Jane Austen, Esther Holden Averill, Hoda Barakat, David Crystal, Rashid Al Daif, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bret Easton Ellis, Jasper Fforde, Edward Gorey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Albert Habib Hourani, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen Kinzer, Naguib Mahfouz, John McWhorter, Haruki Murakami, J.D. Salinger, Marjane Satrapi, David Sedaris, Lemony Snicket, H. G. Wells, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresCarleton College - Bookstore, Daedalus Books & Music - Columbia, Kramerbooks, Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Favorite librariesArlington Central Library (Arlington, Va), Carleton College - Gould Library, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, University of Chicago - Joseph Regenstein Library

About me I have a B.A. in Religion with a focus in Judaism. I also have an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies with a focus on modern Lebanon, Middle Eastern literature, and intellectual history. I love cats and robots, especially sad ones (robots, not cats), Jane Austen, and coffee! I am usually reading a number of books at one time - a big non-fiction thing, one YA/"easy" book, a book of short stories, a trivia book, and maybe one other book.

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Currently Reading And TBR Soon

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (F)
Middlemarch - George Eliot (F) (Group Read)
The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837 - Ben Wilson (NF)
Villette - Charlotte Bronte (F)
The Night in Question: Stories - Tobias Wolff (short fiction)
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen - edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (essay anthology)
Hidden Camera - Zoran Zivkovic (F)
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love - edited by Anne Fadiman (essay anthology)

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Middlemarch Group Read Progress

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My Challenges for 2008

My General Challenges for 2008
Numerical Challenge - 75 Books
Author Challenges - 2 by Kazuo Ishiguro & 2 by Haruki Murakami
10 specific books - 6 fiction and 4 non-fiction

My 888 Challenge for 2008
8 Classics
8 Works of Speculative Fiction (Dystopia, Time Travel, Alt. Reality, etc.)
8 Books I Already Own, Any Genre
8 Social Histories & Social Commentaries
8 YA Literature & Graphic Novels
8 Recommended on LT or Well Reviewed
8 Short Story Collections
8 New Countries

My Reading Around the World Challenge - Updated for 2008
Goal is to read at least 8 books from new countries this year.

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Recent Reads

Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics Volume 14 (graphic novel)
The End - Lemony Snicket (F)
Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky - Esther Averill (F)
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (F)
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A. Washington (NF)
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea - Guy Delisle (graphic novel)

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Top 12 Of 2008
Jan - Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason - Jessica Warner (NF)
Feb - (bad month - no picks)
Mar - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman (NF) or Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (F)
Apr - The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (F) and Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A. Washington (NF)
May - TBD
Jun - TBD
Jul - TBD
Aug - TBD
Sept - TBD
Oct - TBD
Nov - TBD
Dec - TBD

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Completed Challenges

50 Books in 2007

About my library My Library
My library consists of my various academic interests - Middle Eastern history & politics, Judaism, Islam, social histories, English history - English literature, Middle Eastern literature, a few art books, books about maps, cookbooks, a random bunch of novels, and books relating to the languages I've studied (Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic). You will also probably find the occasional trashy serial killer or vampire novel in my library, because I just can't resist them... My special interests are cute books about cats (which I initially received against my will and now accept as part of who I am), books illustrated by Edward Gorey, cartography books, etiquette books, and Jane Austen novels/associated critical literature & funny books that riff on Austen or refer to her. None of my collections are particularly huge at this point & I am currently not at all concerned about first editions, etc.

I do include books borrowed - from the library, other people, etc. - and books read but given away, lost, etc. in my "library", since I use it both as a way to track what I have and as a way to track what I have read. I try to tag appropriately so that its clear whether a book is actually in my physical collection at this point.

My Rating System
My rating system is pretty straightforward. I may be too generous with books sometimes, but I generally don't finish things that I find unbearable, unless forced to. When I rate, I generally don't differentiate between books for generalists and books that only specialists in a field would like - I just consider the quality of the work. I do mark down for academic writing that is unnecessarily inaccessible (i.e.,"bad writing").

Five stars - Loved it
Four stars - Really Liked it
Three stars - Liked it/Met my expectations
Two stars - Didn't really like it/Disappointed
One star - Hated it
Half star - Really, really hated it

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Some of My Favorite Books - Fiction and Non-Fiction

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language - John McWhorter
Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond
Passage to Dusk - Rashid al-Daif
The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Mantle of the Prophet - Roy Mottahedeh
Devil in the White City - Erik Larsen

Favorite Short Stories

Returning to Haifa - Ghassan Kananfani
The Whore's Child - Richard Russo
The Mysteries of Linwood Hart - Richard Russo
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber

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Member sinceMay 23, 2007

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Hello, fannyprice! Thanks for adding my library to your list of interesting ones. I was surprised to find that I HADN'T added your already, because I do enjoy reading your comments and getting suggestions from your list on the 75 Books thread. I see you're giving the group read of Middlemarch a shot. I'd be there if I hadn't already read ait three times, and if it was the busy end of semester.

posted by Cariola at 9:39 am (EST) on Apr 27, 2008

Great comment today on Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Go, Fanny, go!

posted by Nickelini at 7:57 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2008

Given your interests and education I'm curious if you have read the work of the professor Nadia Abu (can't remember the rest of her name the New Yorker mag article is buried somewhere) whose tenure at Barnard created a firestorm. I am interested in your perspective on the scholarship and your objective view of her conclusions. I'm curious about an opinion from someone with your background. Other than that I really love your reviews and thoughtful comments! Ciao, Benet

posted by Benet at 1:10 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2008

Hi and thanks for your comment. I get so bonded to the critters that losing one is a sad time. My kids are in that 'tween' stage. They're grown & in college but not in permanent places where they can have pets--so I have all the pets they had while growing up. Some of them are getting pretty elderly. It was an unhappy shock to lose the youngest of them.

Give your purr people an extra scratch today!

posted by streamsong at 10:24 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2008

Hi! Thanks for helping me tackle the Sweet Valley...I have mostly the Sweet Valley Twins books, I never really got into the Sweet Valley High. Actually it's kind of a terrible story, if you want to hear it sometime. But, anyways, Wikipedia has a good list of these books here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Valley_High and the senior year ones here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Valley_Senior_Year. From reading those two pages, it seems that these are two separate books that happen to have the same title.
Happy Thinging!
~Emily

posted by lilyfyrestorm at 11:20 am (EST) on Apr 9, 2008

Hey, Fanny. Re: Wide Sargasso Sea. My pleasure to back you up there! I was somewhat appalled by the post that you were responding to and was all set to reply but you beat me to you, and said it better than I would have. WSS has been on my to-read list for ages, but I'm moving it up to the top because I just studied Jane Eyre in a Victorian Lit course, so I want to read it while JE is still (fairly) top of mind. I'll let you know what I thought of it.

posted by Nickelini at 1:52 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2008

Hi, Fanny; just wanted to thank you for green-flagging all the false red flags from my review archives! Here's hoping that the new feature will do some good, and get rid of those flags that still muddy up my account. By the way, your advice has helped quite a bit; simply mentioning at the beginning of the review that I'm the original author has prevented anyone else from falsely accusing me of stealing from myself, and is something I now highly recommend other LTers doing if they are reprinting their reviews here that originally ran at other websites (like a personal blog, Amazon, Goodreads, etc etc). Thanks again for all your counsel on this subject, and here's hoping that everyone at LT gets a little better at reading all the details behind where a review here originally comes from before just clicking on that red flag automatically.

posted by jasonpettus at 8:19 pm (EST) on Mar 9, 2008

It sure is!

http://toothpastefordinner.com/megastore.php

posted by fleela at 11:10 am (EST) on Mar 1, 2008

Fanny, thanks for letting me know about someone flagging my recent essay regarding "House of the Seven Gables." Do you know how I best try to figure out why that person threw up a flag to begin with? I tried just clicking on the little flag icon, but it's not an active link, just a little image; and I have no idea, frankly, how to actually track down beyond that point who the actual flag-waver is, or why they're waving that red flag to begin with. You said something in your original review about a copyright issue; maybe you could explain more? Like you mentioned, there really shouldn't be any copyright issue; all I did was merely reprint my own review from the arts organization I own (The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, or cclapcenter.com). I don't know why anyone would raise a red flag about copyright issues, as you briefly mentioned in your original message to me; after all, I own the original copyright, and therefore can do anything I want with it, including reprinting my review if I want at all the various literary social networks I belong to.

posted by jasonpettus at 8:12 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

Hey FP - it appears that our libraries are near clones. With an MA in Islamic Studies and a strong love of Austen, it's not hard to see why!

Have fun collecting, hannah

posted by hannahdraper at 1:02 am (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

Hello Fanny, no need to be jealous of the book. After I won the ebay auction I found the same one $10 cheaper on abebooks - it will most probably still be there.

I really have to start checking all sources before I buy on ebay. Sometimes when I see a beautiful book my brain just switches to acquisition-mode... no room for logical thoughts left. But that seems to be a problem I share with many people here :)

posted by J_ipsen at 6:43 am (EST) on Jan 14, 2008

Yes, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit! If you want to read Irish authors I strongly suggest short stories. My favourite writers are Frank O'Connor and Mary Lavin (born in Ireland raised in the US but spent the later part of her life in Ireland). For O'Connor I think you might like "My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories" I had to read these stories in school all those years ago. As for Mary Lavin "Tales from Bective Bridge" is very good.

posted by liamfoley at 6:16 am (EST) on Jan 13, 2008

If you are looking for a new country to read works from you could do worse than Ireland, you know we use English here, right?

posted by liamfoley at 3:39 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2008

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on my review! I'd keep writing them even if they were just for me, but I always love getting feedback. :)

Although my review comes across a little harsh, I actually really enjoyed The Stolen Child - enough to stay interested when the story wandered, enough to write a multi-paragraph review (something I almost *never* did back when I read it), and enough that I still remember it pretty vividly, over a year later - it's definitely stuck with me longer than other books that I read at about the same time.

I do remember that I was expecting a lot more of a fairy tale going in, and I was really surprised that it wasn't really a fairy tale at all - it was a lot deeper and much more thought-provoking than I had expected.

posted by fyrefly98 at 11:46 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2008

Thanks for the recommendation for The Power of Babel, fannyprice. I'll check it out.

I've never read anything nonfiction about linguistics, but one of my all-time desert-island favorite novels has as its main character a priest who specializes in linquistics, and some of the problems that arise during the course of the novel are the result of a miscommunication that had to do with language and cultural concepts, and I thought it was fascinating. ("The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell.)

posted by Storeetllr at 11:22 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2008

I actually don't remember how I came up with the name! I used to tell people all the time . . . but I've been using UnDeadGoat/undeadgoat since I first started participating in internet communities, I think about age 13? I had deadgoatgirl before that, for e-mail and IM. And I know I've written exactly where the name came from somewhere in my livejournal, but I don't really have time to read the ntire thing right now. :) I do seem to recall it had something to do with the orthodontist?

posted by undeadgoat at 10:17 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2008

Hi there! I love the Norton Critical Editions and collect those (over Penguin or Oxford) whenever possible. Some of the essays are more interesting than others, but what I really like is their sturdiness (for being paperbacks) and how well they age - not even a little yellowing after 10+ years. When I have a NCE in addition to Penguin or Oxford, often it's because I have a lot of notes written in the latter from my college days. The one advantage I find with Penguin is that the translations tend to be less stilted than NCE, so almost all my NCEs are British and American works.

My next Austen re-read will be spent with Fanny Price. :)

posted by chanale at 5:16 pm (EST) on Jan 2, 2008

Nice to meet you and happy new year!

posted by markell at 2:27 pm (EST) on Jan 2, 2008

Oh, not at all. It's nice to kind of meet you. :)

posted by frogbelly at 12:17 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2008

Hey, thanks...and yes, I'm getting my minor in linguistics but I'm still very, very new to it.
I'm also a bit new here and don't know much about the whole "interesting library" thing but I will take it as a compliment. :)

posted by frogbelly at 11:35 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2008

Thank you very much! I don't currently have a site set up, although I plan to have one in the future. I would be willing to do business via e-mail and paypal if you're interested, though. I have many more pieces besides what's on flickr and I do custom designs as well.

posted by bluesalamanders at 6:13 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2007

That's SO funny! Is it an American commercial? I had no idea the Swedish/Norwegian rift was so commonly known.

posted by desideo at 5:32 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007

Haha, that's so funny! I am indeed Swedish, but I love Norway. It's so weird! I could go on for hours about their taxes, their traditions and their crazy gossip magazines.

posted by desideo at 5:25 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007

Good call! --> interesting libraries

I already had you on my secret crazy book stalker list.

posted by desideo at 5:14 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007

If I don't get it for Christmas, I'm obviously buying it for myself! The list is five pages long (four of them are books only), so I hypothesize I'm not getting every single item...

posted by desideo at 5:11 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007

By the way - your personal library comment inspired me to put Jane Austen in Hollywood on my Christmas wishlist!

posted by desideo at 5:01 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007

Wow, that's great! Thank you, I'm so glad you found it entertaining - I sure had a lot of fun writing it. Totally looking forward to the next adaptation to trash, haha.

posted by desideo at 3:04 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007

Hi :)

A very comprehensive profile you have here...I like it. Congratulations on the surpassing the 50 book challenge!

I read the Snicket series last summer (Australian summer, that is) and quite enjoyed it as a bit of light entertainment. I preferred the second half of the series, esp. 'The Ersatz Elevator' and 'The Carnivorous Carnival'.

Happy reading

Laura

posted by digifish_books at 8:16 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2007

Thanks for the link! I got the book a couple days ago but I will definitely check out that essay when I read it.

posted by nperrin at 6:32 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2007

Hey! Thanks for your comment about my Blindness review :) Makes it worthwhile writing them to get some feedback xx

posted by princessponti at 3:38 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Sharp Objects was one of my best reads this year!

posted by Seajack at 7:55 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007

Hey there,

I was just about to list my copy of In the Name of God by Paula Jolin on bookmooch.com and recalled that you were interested in hearing about it in the Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature Group.

While I personally don't think that the book was all that great and not worth the money I spent on it...if you were still interested in reading it but didn't want to buy it then let me know and I will send you my copy. This isn't a book that I'd read again so would like to free up that shelf space for a book that I will want to keep.

Also, with your background in religion and middle east studies you might have a different view on the story and enjoy it more then I did. Anyhow...let me know if you'd be interested in the book.

posted by Irisheyz77 at 2:45 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2007

When I was 26 years old (1972-1973), I worked in Israel for a year on a volunteer program called Sherut La'Am. I did 3 months of ulpan in Qiryat Shmona (*loved* that city), worked as a staff nurse in the hospital in Beer Sheva, and worked as a visiting nurse based out of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. At that time, I was living in Katamon Tet.

It would be better to ask me where I wasn't in Israel since I have relatives and friends literally from the Golan to the Negev and traveled extensively throughout Israel. Kibbutzim I know best are (my base camp!) Shaar Haamakim, Snir, and Gat. The moshav I know best is Givat Chen. A very, very dear friend lives in the city of Pardesiya, etc.

I last visited Israel in 2001. Although I found it a very changed and modern country, I still felt as if I were going home. I truly love the country of Israel and find the political situation there heartbreaking.

My 25-year-old son is going to Israel next month with a friend just to visit and have fun. He's only been there one time before (on a high school USY porgram). This time, he'll be free as a bird. I'm sure he and his friend will have a wonderful time.

and your favorite place in Israel is...?

By the way, I often share my books with others around the world on BookCrossing. If you are interested in participating in a bookray (when books are mailed from person to person), please let me know. I can always add Hebrew novels to circulating books...and have a great one in mind to start a new bookray. Have you ever read Returning Lost Loves by Yehoshua Kenaz? That's the one I was thinking of. My profile on BookCrossing is:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/SqueakyChu

posted by SqueakyChu at 12:48 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2007

I just realized that we both live in the same general geographical area. I'm just a little north of you. I always think that people on LibraryThing are from some other part of the world!

Not only was Bandit my hamster, but the green bowl was a project my daughter did while taking ceramics in high school! :-)

Contemporary Israeli literature is my very favorite reading. I'm always picking up books by Israeli authors from my used book store or borrowing Israeli films from my public library. I just this week viewed the film "James' Journey to Jerusalem" which I enjoyed very much. Since I did live in Israel for a year (many years ago), I especially love the reminders of what a vibrant collection of cultures exits there.

posted by SqueakyChu at 1:18 am (EST) on Sep 9, 2007

This was actually the first time I read The Hundred Dresses (I'm having a second childhood, currently working on the NEA list). I felt a knot in my stomach for Wanda - I can't imagine possessing that much dignity in the face of taunting.

posted by chanale at 2:25 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2007

Hey FannyPrice,
It's great to meet you. Austen is definitely my favourite 19th century writer (why are all the rest so depressing? ie Thomas Hardy - shudder). Thanks for the tip about The Making of Victorian Values. I haven't read it yet, it's number, ah (looking up) #245 on my several-thousand-books-long research list. So really, I'll be getting to it any day now. Hummm.

posted by MysteryWatcher at 6:48 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2007

Hi! Thanks for your comment about my 50 books challenge. It's nice to hear someone is reading my posts!

posted by ElizaJane at 1:58 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2007

I just looked at your library - I'm going to mine your library for some ideas on lit from the Middle East; in doing that map, I realized I have read extensively ABOUT the M.E. (my undergrad history major had a M.E. concentration), but am woefully ignorant of modern literature from any of the Middle Eastern countries(whether Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, etc.). It looks like you've been reading widely in the area.

posted by A_musing at 3:43 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2007

Thanks so much for all the articles you left! This is my first year teaching high school and I was stressing about all the research I'll need to do. What you've given me will be an excellent head start :)

posted by cestovatela at 1:47 am (EST) on Aug 12, 2007

I have now seen your comments in "I Love Jane Austen" and "Hogwarts Express." They are very well thought out and insightful. I hope to see more!

posted by compskibook at 12:10 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2007

Hi, fannyprice! I just noticed that you left me a message about my Philip Roth comment. I'm just getting the hang of LT and just realized we can send private messages to each other, make friends, view each other's libraries, etc. (I'm kind of slow, considering I joined LT back in Jan 2007!)

I don't think it really matters in which order you read Roth's 2nd Zuckerman trilogy. He wrote the 3 books in this order: American Pastoral; I Married a Communist; and The Human Stain, so you could approach it that way.

I didn't mean to sound 'high-handed' or snooty when I made that comment about the reader having to put in some effort to appreciate a challenging book. I meant, exactly as you said, reading reviews, listening to podcasts, maybe even researching a bit the history of the story's time and place. The more challenging a book is, the more I appreciate articles, reviews, interviews, etc. They often help me get more out of a book than I would otherwise.

Hope my comments don't leave you scratching your head!

posted by booksinbed at 8:23 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2007

I'm enjoying your comments on Fanny Price as well, fannyprice (lol!). You're right, she needs defenders. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks she's great. I like Fanny because she is different from Austen's other characters. The closest other heroine would probably be Anne Elliot, but Anne is older and Fanny so young.

I look forward to seeing you more around the Austen group. Take care! :)

~ww

posted by wisewoman at 10:40 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2007

I really did find Barrel Fever to be almost impossible to read. The "stories" section was terrible! It seem laded with spite. The only reason I gave it a 5/10 in my review is that I enjoyed some of the essays in back and also, I have a really hard time rating a book below 2 stars (4/10). Maybe I'm being overgenerous in cases but there are only a few books I have read that we so terrible I would rate them lower than that. If the non-fiction had not been included in this book, however, it would only merit a 1/10. I'm quite glad this was not my first Sedaris. I don't believe I would have read any more.

posted by thegreattimsbooklist at 9:33 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2007

Hi, I finished Angelica and liked it very much. I posted my thoughts on the "What are you reading now?" Group. It's overtly a ghost story but as the novel progresses the story unfolds like a puzzle. It's very unusual and so much more than a ghost story so I could see where it may turn some readers off. I think there is a lot in it for readers who enjoy exploring Victorian culture - the good, the bad & the ugly. One cannot help but think of The Yellow Wallpaper, for instance, while reading it. Best, Lois

posted by avaland at 7:59 am (EST) on May 31, 2007

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