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Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Mavis Gallant

The Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Left Bank, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) by Jean Rhys

Scherzi, I Believe by Lance Olsen

The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940-46 by Bryher

Living In Small Spaces by Lorrie Mack

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Favorite bookstoresAbbey Bookshop, Addyman Books, American University in Cairo Bookstore, Anagram Bookshop, Arches Book Company, Arundel Books, Black Gull Books, Blackwell Oxford, BookPeople of Moscow, Books for Cooks, Daunt Books, Elliott Bay Bookstore, Foyles, Halcyon Books, London Review Bookshop, Multnomah County Library - Title Wave Used Books, Murder & Mayhem, Oxfam Books, Oxfam Books & Music, Oxfam Bookshop, Paper Moon Books, Persephone Books, Kensington, Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Powell's City of Books, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare & Company, The King's English Bookshop, The Poetry Bookshop, Village Voice Bookshop

Favorite librariesKensington Central Library, Kidderminster Library, Worcester Library

Other favoritesUtah Humanities Book Festival

About me“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Desiderius Erasmus

Thirty-something poet living in Portland. I studied creative writing at the University of Idaho in Moscow and my poems have been published in several anthologies, magazines, pamphlets, and zines by various small presses in the US, Canada, and the UK. Since graduating, I have worked as a writer/editor for several websites based in Salt Lake City and as a library assistant for the Salt Lake City Public Library system and RBKC Libraries in London. I have returned to the US after spending just over four years living in England~my very own expatriate experience.
I'm nothing if not bohemian. I love to travel and experience different cultures, but equally I love to stay at home with my books and bric-a-brac and think of my adventures.
Love books. Love signed books.

profile picture is 'Studio in Montparnasse' by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (exhibited 1926).

About my libraryVery eclectic reader by nature, but am obsessed with Paris in the 1920s. I fancy myself as some incarnate of Sylvia Beach. I lean towards literary biographies, travel memoirs, culinary literature, simple living/environmental books, feminist studies, 20th century fiction, and of course poetry.

my rating system:
wanted to live in it
loved it, will re-read, great reference source
edifying
unoriginal, but enjoyable nonetheless
why was I compelled to read this

***I have another library under READnotowned where I log books I've read but never or no longer own. My husband's library of books he's read (including books he owns and those he doesn't) is under comstock.***

currently reading:
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips