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About meI'm a writerreader from Northern CA! I write everything from novels to school newsletters. I also review books for the ezines Open Letters Monthly Arts and Literature Review and the Quarterly Conversation and am a feature writer for a local monthly print journal, Parenting on the Peninsula. Check out my blog at livejournal for more info about my writing life. By the way, if there are any NANOWRIMO veterans out there, I'd love to hear from you.

About my libraryBooks finished in 2009:
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant
Paris Notebooks by Mavis Gallant
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
Bringing Tony Home by Tissa Abeysekara
Bambi by Felix Salten
Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic
The Sailor from Gibraltar by Marguerite Duras
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Happy Moscow by Andrey Platonov
Soul by Andrey Platonov
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind
Who is Mark Twain by Mark Twain
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic
Work Hard. Be Nice. by Jay Matthews
Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugresic
A Jury of Her Peers: American Woemn Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic
Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mindy by Gary Marcus
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream by Dubravka Ugresic
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
The Taker and other stories by Rubem Fonseca
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
The Years by Virginia Woolf
A Happy Marriage by Rafeal Yglesias
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Nothing but the Truth by Avi
The Autumn Ball by Mati Unt
Diary of a Blood Donor by Mati Unt
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Things in the Night by Mati Unt
Brecht at Night by Mati Unt
The Children's Book by AS Byatt

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Member sinceFeb 28, 2008

Currently readingThe Egyptologist: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
The Moor's Last Sigh: A novel by Salman Rushdie
Breath: A Novel by Tim Winton
Envy (New York Review Books Classics) by Yuri Olesha
The Lace Reader: A Novel by Brunonia Barry
Happy Moscow by Andrei Platonov
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