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CollectionsTo Finish Eventually (25), TBR 2011 (125), Your library (739), Wishlist (23), Currently reading (4), To read (15), Read but unowned (12), Favorites (30), All collections (872)

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Tagsnonfiction (295), fiction (229), in line (184), read during college (102), pleasure reading (50), 2012 challenge (47), memoir (46), professional (43), NPR (35), women's studies (31) — see all tags

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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 30 years old and live with my spouse and two cats in a fun 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.

GroupsCats, books, life is good., Favorite Bookstores, Happy Heathens, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Kent State University LibraryThingers, Read YA Lit, 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)

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

Favorite librariesCleveland Public Library - Main, Shaker Heights Public Library

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Member sinceFeb 17, 2008

Currently readingThe Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown
Teaching Adolescent Writers by Kelly Gallagher
The Future of Us by Carolyn Mackler
Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA by Nada Prouty

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The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin

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Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future by Climate Central

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The Once and Future King by T. H. White

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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy by E L James

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Shadow of Night: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah Harkness

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How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

I'm reading The Postmortal, a novel by Drew Magary, for the book club that my friends and I have started. I'm also reading The Great Influenza by John M. Barry. I don't usually read novels (hence the flu nonfiction to round things out), but The Postmortal is actually really interesting, so I think it was a good book club choice.

The best book I read in 2011 was Publish This Book, by Stephen Markley. A book by a writer about the process of writing and selling the very book you're holding, complete with sarcasm and drunkenness and a generous smattering of humorous footnotes? Sign me up!

I commonly read at least two or three books at a time, but I don't usually finish all of them. One is always better, so I focus on that one to the exclusion of the others, and then I usually move on to a totally new book and leave the remaining ones unfinished indefinitely. That's been my biggest reading frustration the past year.

posted by rcbennett82 at 10:22 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2012

Thanks, Santa, from your santee! I'm about halfway through Transmetropolitan so far this morning. :)

Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!
Cheryl

posted by cherydactyl at 11:05 am (EST) on Dec 25, 2011

Hey thanks for the note! What grade do you teach?

posted by AlexandraRobbins at 6:16 am (EST) on Apr 16, 2011

Noticed you liked The Virgin Suicides, 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 dysfunctional family 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

posted by cmtusa at 10:22 pm (EST) on May 17, 2009