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Member: meganreads

CollectionsYour library (588), Currently reading (10), To read (6), Favorites (20), All collections (588)

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Tagsnonfiction (162), in line (125), fiction (101), read during college (99), pleasure reading (50), memoir (36), read during high school (27), stuff I teach (25), women's studies (24), favorites (20) — see all tags

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GroupsCats, books, life is good., Favorite Bookstores, Happy Heathens, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Kent State University LibraryThingers, Read YA Lit, Readers Under 30, Sex Between the Covers

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Jeffrey Eugenides, George Orwell, Chuck Palahniuk, Sylvia Plath, Philip Pullman, Marjane Satrapi, William Shakespeare, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresJoseph-Beth Booksellers - Cleveland, Loganberry Books, Mac's Backs, Visible Voice Books

Favorite librariesCleveland Public Library - Main, Shaker Heights Public Library

About meI am an English teacher, but that only partially shapes my reading habits. I finished graduate school in August of 2007, so I am finally trying to let the brain dust settle so I can figure out what I like to read and do now that I am not OBLIGATED to read and do things anymore.

I am happily cohabiting in a medium-sized eastern US city with my cat and "boyfriend" (although that term just doesn't cover it anymore), in a fantastic neighborhood with lots of good places to sit and read. During a recent visit, my five year old niece asked us how many books we have... I suppose cataloging things here will help us get a rough estimate (things tagged as "his" are, well, his).

I WOULD GET SO MUCH MORE READING DONE IF I DIDN'T SPEND HOURS EACH WEEK MESSING AROUND ON LIBRARYTHING!!!

About my libraryI like to think of this as a "soundtrack" ("readtrack?") of my young adult life. I'm including mostly only things read from about the age of 14 or 15 to the present; I like to think that my reading habits/interests began taking shape around that age. Some notes about my tags:

* "read during high school" means I read it during that period of time (roughly 1994-1999) -- either as an assignment from school, or for pleasure.

* The same goes for "read during college" -- it means I read it between 1999 and 2004, either for pleasure or education.

* "Read during grad school" means anything read between 2005 & 2007; "read after college" means it was read during the weird limbo year of 2004-05 when I was in my first year of teaching but hadn't started grad school yet.

* "NPR" means that I was inspired to read the book after hearing about it on NPR; "NYTBR" means the same for The NEw York Times Book Review.

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Member sinceFeb 17, 2008

Currently readingBliss: A Novel by O.Z. Livaneli
Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston
Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics by Dagmar Herzog
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel by Charlie Huston
Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga... by B. K. S. Iyengar
Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America by Evan Wright
Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music by Greg Prato
The Atheist's Way: Living Well Without Gods by Ph.D. Eric Maisel
Couples by John Updike
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