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CollectionsYour library (1,047), To read (446), Currently reading (1), My Kids' Books (301), Read but unowned (141), Favorites (27), All collections (1,449)

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About meI am a book fanatic! I love to read, collect, and share books. I get nervous when I don't have a book nearby! I have two young children who are well on their way as book lovers.

I am a writer of children's picture books and personal essays. Besides reading, my other hobbies include running, hiking, skiing, yoga, cooking, traveling and of course, writing. The photo in my profile was taken right in front of the Boulder Bookstore and cafe (listed in my favorites).

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About my libraryMy favorite type of book to read, and thus my largest collection, is literary fiction. My large cookbook collection reflects my love of cooking. Ditto for travel books. In fact, if you are looking to travel anywhere in the Rocky Mountain West, check out my Colorado Guides and Travel, Mountain West tags. I also enjoy the memoir genre, and I'm working to read more nonfiction and the classics that I have yet to read.

Because there is no way to separate collections, I've included my kids' favorite books in my library so I can keep track of them. We have many, many more children books in our house than the ones listed here, but these are the best of the best. I would recommend any of the children's books in my collection without hesitation.

After reading 78 books last year but not (quite) finishing the 999, I'm scaling back a bit for this year. Here is a link to my thread on the 1010 Category challenge:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/70727




Groups1010 Category Challenge, 50 Book Challenge, 999 Challenge, Atwoodians, Bloggers, BookMooching, Books off the Shelf Challenge, Children's Literature, Cookbookers, Fans of Alice Hoffmanshow all groups

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Chris Bohjalian, Walter R. Brooks, T. S. Eliot, Leif Enger, Diana Gabaldon, Elizabeth Gilbert, Philippa Gregory, Alice Hoffman, John Irving, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Gregory Maguire, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Jodi Picoult, David Sedaris, Dr. Seuss, J. R. R. Tolkien, Eckhart Tolle, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresAladdin's Lamp Children's Bookstore, Boulder Book Store, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle), Imagination Station, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, Saturn Booksellers, Shaman Drum, Tattered Cover Book Store - Historic LoDo, The Bookstore, Treadwell's, Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Waterstone's Piccadilly

Favorite librariesBoulder Public Library, Lafayette Public Library

Other favoritesThe British Museum

Homepagehttp://www.juliehedlund.com

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Member sinceFeb 28, 2008

Currently readingThe Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by Giorgio Vasari

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That's great! See you then!

Joanne
Hi Julie,

Anne gave me your contact info and I sent out an email with the particulars. I hope you can join us at the TC on the 22nd!

Joanne
Starred you! And... *blushes right back*... my three current threads are on my profile. A quiet ABC Challenge (started last year, half done, slowly filling in the blanks), as well as my 75-Book and 1010 Challenge. I'm only three books in this year but the 75-ers seem to be a very chatty group so that thread's gotten rather long! See you on our threads, then... :-)
Julie - do you have a thread for 2010 and have I been there yet (I don't THINK I've found you so far)? If I haven't could you send me the link, on here or on one of my threads (links on my profile)? I'm trying so hard to catch up with people I want to catch up with (if that makes sense) that I can't remember who I've caught and who's evaded my sweep of the threads... Thanks! x
I completely agree! My Sister's Keeper is my favorite of her works.
Hi Julie- The group read for the "People of the Book", which starts this Sunday the 1st, can be found here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/73347
Hope you can join us!
Mark
jhedlund, thank you for your comment on my JE review! It's lovely to hear of someone enjoying this book as much as I did. Isn't it just fantastic? It absolutely took over my life in the two days I read it. Usually I can put down my book, no matter how much I love it, and get on with my daily responsibilities without too much trouble. Not with Jane Eyre! I chafed all day until I could get home and get back to devouring it :)

Are you, like me, inspired to seek out some film/TV adaptations now? My husband and I watched the 1983 BBC miniseries of it yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite a few flaws and the somewhat stagey cinematography. I've heard the 90s' Zefferelli version lacks spirit and the 2006 miniseries took liberties calculated to make purists scream. But I do have hopes for the old Orson Welles/Joan Fontaine version, though they also made some changes (the Rivers don't appear, I guess).

You're reading Fantastic Mr. Fox — one of my childhood favorites! Isn't Dahl fun? He's one of those authors who write children's books that adults never have to stop enjoying.
Thanks, Julie!

Glad you liked it.

Karenmarie
Handle With Care. I'm interested to know what you think of it. Have you read My Sister's Keeper?
Congratulations! You have won a prize in the Book Read: Mistress of the Art of Death from Early Summer 2009, The Highly Rated Book Group.

To see what you have won, check this link:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/67256&newpost=1#lastmsg

And follow these instructions:

1) Write a note to Vintage Books with your
- real name
- address
- email address
- AND the prize you won.

That's it! Sit back and enjoy your fame and fortune. Congratulations!

vintage_books
What did you think of Garden Spells?
Yes, I loved "The Angel's Game". Thank you so much for sending it to me. I was a mildly neglectful parent for a few days there, though. Dinners were excessively simple, dust gathered. I heard an interview with him where he said that he has four books planned centered around the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, so we have two more at least!
Julie - Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries! I see you've got quite a few cookbooks. I love browing through cookbooks, although I don't have a lot of time to actually make time consuming things very often.

I have a 15 year old daughter, and have kept the best of the best of her childrens' books. She's not a reader like I am, but it's not for lack of opportunity. Her big interest is playing her trombone.

I'm in the 999 challenge, too. I keep finding books that I want to read that aren't in the challenge. And that's a challenge in itself.

I'm going to check out your 999 right now!

See you around.
karenmarie
Julie, thank you so much for letting me have "The Angel's Game". I forced myself to only read the first paragraph (about selling your soul along with that first written piece) and am saving it for the annual family holiday, where an excess of adults means that boring old mom can read in peace while her children are safely entertained. It's lovely to be able to count on having a good book! I listened to an interview with Ruiz, who has planned several books in his "Cemetary of Forgotten Books" series, each related but not in any order.
Hi Julie, great to have you in the Middlesex group read! Come on over, I just posted a start date of June 20.
Since I don't know how often you check group discussion threads (if you are like me, not very) I thought I'd tell you that my copy of Mommy Grace did in fact arrive today. By Purolator. Shipped five days ago. Not straight from the publisher (publishers who do their own shipping tend to be prompt) but from "Hachette Book Group".

Hope yours arrives soon too.
Thanks for the info about Anne Lamott. I'm excited to have discovered her writing. Knowing me, I'll probably like her essays the best.

I'm giving my copy of Bird by Bird (when I finish it) to a friend who got interested in it because of her desire to write. She was skeptical when I handed her my book, but after she read a bit, she was laughing out loud ... and hooked. :)

Madeline

Don't sweat it - I won't be able to read much Wed or Thurs (and maybe Fri), so you might catch up with me!
The discussion thread is here:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/61975
Hey, thanks for dropping by my thread. Funny you should ask, I'm starting Girl tonight. I think LT memeber elbakerone is also reading it this week. I'd love to have you join in. I've started a thread on Talk.
Saw your question about Edgar Sawtelle and thought your mom might like "Tell Me Where it Hurts". I thought it was a very good dog book.
Your review of the Book Thief resonated with me. I recently finished it and I have similar feelings. I hope your review inspires many more to read it!
Hi Julie,
I'm only about 10 pages into The Flanders Panel and so far, so good. This is branching out for me because until now the only mysteries I read were Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey. I had to pick this up because so many people like this author and I have a strong interest in art.
Thanks for the message, good to know he has fans!
Jennifer
Welcome to the group read for The Coffee Trader!

We are so pleased you could join us, and hope you can also sign up for our Highly Rated Book Group Main page, where we list our book group reads!

See here for details:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/thehighlyratedbookgr

Best,

vintage_books

PS: You might want to check out my cookbook collection. Keyword: cookbook
Thanks anyhow jhedlund. I'll just keep stalking my wishlist! :)
Hi,

Thanks for the message. I finished 'The Almost Moon' a few days ago and I gave it 3.5 stars. I thought the beginning was quite slow but it picked up half-way through. I really disliked the characters in the book, they all seemed so self-centred and this kind of put me off. I felt a bit let down by the ending, not sure what I expected to happen but when I finished the book I just felt cheated. My friends have said that her previous books and I will get round to reading them one day, unfortunately my tbr pile is over 600 books and I just keep buying more. In answer to your other comment about Mitch Albom, yes I love his books and 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' is one of my favourites. It was given to me by a friend after losing my mother suddenly and it really helped me to deal with her death. I didn't know he was a sports writer, I guess you learn something new everyday. Glad to see we have similar tastes and I have added you to my friends list.

Bye for now

Tess

Hello,

I saw your post about Greek cooking and Halloumi -- it's good stuff! My husband is from Cyprus, so we look for it regularly, and it freezes well, so if you find it you can buy a lot. I can usually find it at Whole Foods, though it is expensive. If you're ever in Denver, there are two places I go to for Halloumi and other Greek/Middle Eastern food: one is the Middle East Market on Colorado and Evans, and the other is Pete's Fruit and Vegetables on Holly and Cedar. Pete's in particular is a wonderful market. If you like feta, go there and ask for the "good Greek" feta from the back. Both markets are good, fairly inexpensive sources for olives.

okay, I'm hungry now...

Take care,
Anne
Before we adopted the knee-biters, I used to get to the UK about every other year. I would pack a medium-sized suitcase, then pack THAT inside a large suitcase and fill the large one with tea and biscuits. Fortunately customs never opened my bags, because I think there was something like a 2lb limit on tea or so. It was all for personal use! It would last me about 6 months.

I got loads of reading done when my first was an infant. I used to rock and read through her 2-hour naps. Never happened with #2, though, since #1 was jumping up and down demanding attention whenever the baby was on my lap.

Now I read after they are in bed. Much less than I used to!

(That's my 3-year old in the profile picture. She was about 10 weeks old there, and we were giving her the Grand Tour of family visitation all over the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic!)
Hi Julie,

I just got The Wishing Year in the mail today; thank you so much! I'm looking forward to reading it. I'm afraid your book is not going to be send your way for a while yet; our move is taking longer than anticipated. (Sorry about that.) I'll let you know as soon as I've sent it.

I just noticed you're reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Are you enjoying it? I loved that book - it was definitely one of my top reads last year.

Thanks again!
Avis
Thank you:-) I was hesitant about posting a "downer" review when the other readers at that point had all enjoyed the book, but figured if nothing else it would let the publisher know that fans of Conrad are not the demographic they should be targeting with this particular novel.
I'm glad we agree on Corelli's Mandolin. I don't care about the children or grandchildren. I cared about the original characters. And if De Bernieres wanted to see the mandolin passed down several generations, well, it could have been done much better.
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