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About meI'm a librarian in the northeast. I have an obsession with books, but this is not related to my being a librarian- each functions independently of the other. I live for moments when books cross into my little web2.0 world. I am a Bookcrossing member so I love to release books that I get. I also participate in Paperback Swap to get rid of and find new books. I have a personal goal to read all the books in Nancy Pearl's Book Lust (both volumes). It's about 4,000 books over 2 volumes. I am just focusing on the first volume of books and I expect it to take years, maybe the rest of my life.
Other things about me, I am a novice public speaker. I am an instruction librarian so I guess on some level I am a professional speaker. I would love to be a real professional speaker some day. I am a member of Toastmasters to help me make that happen. I live for Apple products, if only I could afford them all. I live with a cat who thinks books are chew toys.

About my libraryMy library is an odd thing. It is a combination of things I have read, things I own, things I have listened too and things waiting to be read. If items are tagged with "swapped" it could mean many things, but the one thing it always means is that I no longer have it. I also have a "Book Lust" tag to note items that are part of my Book Lust challenge and a tag "book club" to note books read with my book club. I live to tag so I could really go crazy if I wanted.

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Noticed you liked Fight Club, 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 disturbed bunch of kids and a bit dark :) 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). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris
Ode

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Here's the embarrassing thing I don't know if I should be admitting to or not, but I can tell you what I'll probably be reading in December 2009 or April 2010! I have the whole reading list "mapped out." Pathetic, aren't I? I always start with planning to read three books per month, but it's more like five...The fourth book for September will be Good Enough Parent by Bruno Bettelheim. :)
I am scheduled to read McEwan in June (celebrating his birth month). For Sept I am reading (in order): Code Book by Simon Singh (to celebrate the signing of the National Security Act), Diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing (celebrating Healthy Aging Month), and Far Side of Paradise, a biography by Arthur Mizener (to celebrate F. Scott Fitzgerald's birth month).Any of those interest you?
Hello,

The book lust "challenge" as I call it is coming along. Slow but steady. I am definitely interested in the group. The only sticky point is that I have a decidedly weird system for how I chose which books to read when. For example Jane Gardam was born in the month of July so I read 'Bilgewater' as a tribute. Idaho became a state in July so now I'm reading 'Finding Caruso' (set in Idaho). See what I mean? Quirky system but it works for me. ;)

ps~ you are verrrry ambition to add the Crush books to your list! I don't dare!
we share about 200 books and many of the same authors! happy reading!
no way, no! I haven't finished the BL challenge! I only started in Dec 06. If the tag is booklust (all one word) I haven't read it (or need to reread it). If it's tagged book lust i or book lust ii that means I have. Being the nerd that I am I created rules for myself and everything. This project is going to take me forever!
How are you deciding what books to read from Book Lust and More Book Lust? I had to catalog all of them (in alphabetical order, of course) from the indices and I came out with over 4,000 books! Good luck with your challenge! :)
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