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The Complete Novels (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Flann O\'Brien

Consciencism: Philosophy and the Ideology for Decolonization by Kwame Nkrumah

The Needle's Eye (Bantam Windstone Books, 22) by Margaret Drabble

The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century by Guillermo Gomez-Pena

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New Edition by Benedict Anderson

Shadow of a Man by May Sarton

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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Douglas Coupland, Robertson Davies, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Richard Powers, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

About me I'm a graduate student in English, with a special interest in interdisciplinary understandings of science and literature. I recently married my sweetheart in a perfect Christmas wedding; married life is great! In addition to books, I like good company, movies and food. In a previous life I played the violin and studied math and Spanish, too. Now I just read.

About my library I am trying to build my collection of science fiction and science-y fiction. The Spanish books represented therein are mostly my husband's, but I have read several of them as well.

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Because it's fun to communicate with you asynchronously despite you seeing me all the time:
I checked out Gold Bug Variations from Watson yesterdee! Woohoo.

posted by angrystarlyt at 8:32 pm (EST) on Mar 4, 2008

You know, at the time that I read "The Echo Maker," I didn't think that it had made that much of an impact on me. I thought the writing was superb, but it felt emotionally distant--so that I ended up reading "Plowing the Dark" to see if I'd get a different experience out of that.

But it's funny, The Echo Maker is one of those books that has surfaced in my mind more often than others. As a "post-9/11" novel, I appreciated the subtlety of its approach; I think that this, more than any other reason, is why the book has ended up resonating with me so strongly.

Have you read all of Powers? I haven't been able to decide whether I'm going to make Galatea 2.2 or The Gold Bug Variations my next Powers read.

posted by Medellia12 at 10:23 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Ah--are you angrystarlyt's friend who recommended the Richard Powers? (Putting 2 and 2 together.) I love Powers, and it's infrequently that I come across someone else who has read him. If you ever have any recommendations for me, I'd be glad to hear them!

posted by Medellia12 at 10:50 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2008

What angela hasn't told you in her biography is that she passed her Master's oral with HONORS!

posted by angrystarlyt at 1:24 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2008

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