Search meredk's booksRandom books from meredk's libraryOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle Loving Frank by Nancy Horan The Magicians by Lev Grossman He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum Members with meredk's booksMember connectionsNo connections RSS feeds
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 Member: meredkCollectionsYour library (459), Currently reading (1), Wishlist (34), Favorites (19), Owned but not read (2), All collections (493) Reviews34 reviews Tagsbook group (138), e-book (24), children's book (16), Booker Prize (11), audio book (11) — see all tags Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror About meI'm retired, so I have a lot more time to read. I was an editor at Microsoft. I loved editing, although the content was dry. Before Microsoft, I was a struggling artist. Now I'm making art again, without the struggle part - much nicer! About my libraryThis includes books read by my book group, not all of which I liked. I've tried to include everything I've read in recent years, except vacation trash. Recently I've been adding books I read much earlier in my life, including some of my favorite books when I was a child. I own many of these, but certainly not all of them. GroupsBooker Prize, New York Review Books, Seattleites Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman, Ian McEwan, Vikram Seth (Shared favorites) Homepagehttp://meredithregal.com/ Membership Real nameMeredith Regal LocationSeattle, WA Account typepublic, lifetime URLs
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posted by meredk at 12:45 am (EST) on Feb 20, 2011
posted by meredk at 1:10 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2010
Up until now--age 47--I have mostly just been doing first-ever reads to try to get as many books under my belt as possible, but I have recently begun to do a re-reading drive. All the books that I read 20 or 30 years ago are starting to fade from my memory, and I want to re-acquaint myself with them. So for example, I re-read Nostromo by Joseph Conrad and it immediately took me back on a memory trip back to my earlier self about 25 years ago.
I now intend to do this with some of the novels of Robertson Davies and Margaret Atwood. Any recommendations? I have a notion to start with the Fifth Business Manticore World of Wonders trilogy.
posted by libraryhermit at 11:15 am (EST) on Aug 29, 2010
posted by ejhubertz at 6:30 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2010
The group where we do most of our on line chatting is Seattleites and here's a link to our latest topic - http://www.librarything.com/topic/76798
Our next discussion will be about [Bad Land] and will be on Monday, May 10th, 7 pm, Third Place Books. Some of us arrive early and grab a bite to eat, also. Join us then, or later, which ever works best for you. Also, perhaps you'll find in the thread discussion about a Meet-Up in Portland in August. Maybe you can do that and see Powell's as well as other good Portland bookstores.
Stay in touch in any case and perhaps it will work out
Karen
posted by maggie1944 at 6:00 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2010