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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Shannon Hale, Kazuo Ishiguro, Madeleine L'Engle, Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, Edith Wharton (Shared favorites)

About meI'm now a book-loving lawyer (woohoo) who procrastinates terribly by reading whenever I can (usually when I can least afford to).

About my libraryHonestly, it's not very organized. Sometimes I include textbooks, sometimes I don't. Some of the books I own, some of them I don't. Some of them I've read, some of them I haven't yet. I try and ID things by tags. The 'don't own' tag refers to books I have read but don't own, while 'not read yet' refers to books I own but haven't read yet.

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Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel by Naguib Mahfouz

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Song Yet Sung by James McBride

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The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser

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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson

Noticed you liked The God of Small Things, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a grief-stricken family. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter)in case you'd like to read more about the novel before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 9:54 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2009

no no no, it's not rude at all, i'm awful at picking out gifts. specific is awesome. perfect - hope you don't mind not being surprised : ) as for me... a book a book any book would be great! ummm... The Kestrel (Lloyd Alexander), The Beggar Queen (Lloyd Alexander), Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri), Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee), Enchantment (Orson Scott Card), North and South (Gaskell). haha, I could go on forever, take your pick, or anything you can think of would of course be great. i'm starting on the Explosionist and LOVE it!!!

posted by thepequodtwo at 2:11 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

gah, right, i knew that! i need to do shopping too. what do you want for christmas?

posted by thepequodtwo at 12:03 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2008

hola, some of the "to read" tags mean I have the book and haven't gotten around to reading it yet - but most of the "to read"s are books i don't own. there are way too many of them! excited for the song contest this week? : )

posted by thepequodtwo at 7:46 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2008

Welcome to the 2009 75 Books Challenge group. Thanks for joining in!

posted by drneutron at 7:48 pm (EST) on Dec 7, 2008

p.p.s. i was skimming through reviews of never let me go and someone described it as chick lit!?!?!?! color me baffled.

posted by thepequodtwo at 11:51 pm (EST) on Nov 22, 2008

oh my god, just finished never let me go and let me tell you that book has put me through the wringer - practically sobbing i was - am! argh! ishiguro is two for two in leaving me an emotional wreck by the end of his novels. i love how he filters through layer after layer of memory. brilliant, but so heartbreaking. is artist of the floating world as bad - because i don't think i can take much more. have you seen equilibrium btw? nlmg just reminds me of it a bit...

p.s. on a completely different note, saw twilight (rachel made me!) and it was HILARIOUS. the sparkling, oh the sparkling! poor cedric diggory how you have fallen : P

posted by thepequodtwo at 11:42 pm (EST) on Nov 22, 2008

Thanks for the reminder about the alternate version of the 1001 spreadsheet. I downloaded it once, but the program crashed on me. I'm going to try again, because I simply love its simplicity of use.

posted by Prop2gether at 12:05 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2008

just finished the remains of the day... oh my god that book is amazing!!! at first i was like, what? a butler? what could be interesting about a butler? silly silly me. i actually cried. what's another book by ishiguro that you would recommend - you're a big fan of his right?

posted by thepequodtwo at 12:51 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2008

Boy, am I going to be a horrible English teacher with that kind of grammar!

"your faith in me" is so much better! Sorry for posting twice but it won't let me edit...grrr..

posted by Ilithyia at 2:33 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008

Thanks for your enthusiastic congrats!...and you're faith in me!

It was a such expedited process that my head is still spinning. I found out about this particular program/partnership in March, applied in May, took the GREs about 3 weeks ago, interviewed last Monday, and by Thursday I was in! I start taking classes in August and start teaching/taking classes in Sept! Now I just have to learn how to breathe again...

I really enjoy your list, and I hope your reading pace doesn't have to suffer the way mine did. I sort of go insane when I can't read the things that I want to read..."But I've been sane for awhile now, and change is good." - Wash, Firefly

posted by Ilithyia at 2:30 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008

indeed very clever and very procrastination-y, and now i will join you in procrastinating....

posted by pynelyf at 6:15 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2008

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