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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See

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Pasta and Garlic: Low-Fat Recipes..... That Work by Chris Gluck

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Five -5- Ring Binder, 10th Edition) by Gerald M. Knox

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

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Member: jhedlund

Library770 books — see library

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Tagsown (721), tbr (271), literary fiction (189), children's book (69), cookbooks (63), memoir (54), both kids (53), travel (46), gift (Mom) (36), spirituality (35) — see all tags

GroupsBookMooching, Children's Literature, Cookbookers, Geeks who love the Classics, Girlybooks, Historical Fiction, List Five Books Parlour Game, Tea!, What Are You Reading Now?, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsChris Bohjalian, Leif Enger, Elizabeth Gilbert, Philippa Gregory, John Irving, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Gregory Maguire, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Jodi Picoult, Dr. Seuss, J.R.R. Tolkien, Eckhart Tolle (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAladdin's Lamp Children's Bookstore, Boulder Book Store, City Lights Bookstore, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Elliott Bay Bookstore, Imagination Station, Kramerbooks, 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

About me I am fanatical about books and have never been without a book for as long as I've been able to read on my own. I have two children (5 and 2) that I read to every single day, because my worst fear is that the next generation will prefer electronic entertainment over books.

I currently work part-time in the electronic payments industry, returning to my company after a 2 year break. However, when my daughter starts kindergarten this fall, I am going to start writing full time, which is what I've always wanted to do. Time to get serious and follow my dreams! Besides reading, my other hobbies include running, hiking, skiing, 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 library My favorite type of book to read, and thus my largest collection, is literary fiction. I also love cooking and have many cookbooks. 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. You will find much there. I enjoy the memoir genre and have recently added quite a few of those to my collection. I've also been reading and collecting books on spirituality lately, primarily related to mindfulness and the deeper meaning to life.

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 (tagged children's literature or children's books).

Feel free to send me a comment if you have thoughts/questions on my collection. I love chatting with fellow LTers!

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Real nameJulie

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I did receive Stone Creek. Thanks!

posted by gwendolyndawson at 9:49 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2008

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

posted by AMQS at 10:23 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2008

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!)

posted by lilysea at 2:16 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2008

Hi again,

I just noticed that you've listed Elizabeth Gilbert as one of your favourite writers. I'm in the middle of reading Eat, Pray, Love and thoroughly enjoying it. Have you read any of her other books?

Have a great holiday weekend too!

posted by avisannschild at 12:02 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2008

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

posted by avisannschild at 2:37 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2008

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.

posted by Trismegistus at 3:34 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2008

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.

posted by sanja at 1:26 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2008

Yeah, I went to classics graduate school at UMich Ann Arbor, dropping out in '00 I think. You there now?

T

posted by timspalding at 11:23 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

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