Member: mtartag

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Tagsnonfiction (340), fiction (154), psychology (97), sociology (91), women's studies (78), philosophy (72), mental illness (57), psychiatry (50), medicine (49), memoir (44) — see all tags

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Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, ARC Junkies, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Graduate Students, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), New Yorkers, Philosophy of Science, Queer and Trans Lit, Readers Who Write

Favorite authorsIsabel Allende, Natalie Angier, Kate Bornstein, E. E. Cummings, Marguerite Duras, Barbara Ehrenreich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michel Foucault, Jean Genet, James Gleick, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Redfield Jamison, Barbara Kingsolver, James Howard Kunstler, Wally Lamb, Toni Morrison, Chuck Palahniuk, Sylvia Plath, Robert D. Putnam, Anne Rice, Hubert Selby, Jr., Leonard Shlain, Amy Tan, Michelle Tea, Alvin Toffler, Michael Ventura, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

About me"When I think of heaven (Deliver me in a black-winged bird)
I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers and
All other instruments of faith and sex and God in the belly of a black winged bird."-Counting Crows

"She had an avidity or the forbidden wordsymbols; an insatiable appetite for the sound of them on his tongue and her own. She revealed the terrible and impersonal curiosity of a child about forbidden subjects and objects; that rapt and tireless and detached interest of a surgeon in the physical bodies and its possibilities."- William Faulkner
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Like most women in rock culture I had a wildly misspent youth riding around in cars with boys. Followed by a wildly variable career in academia. Culminating with a day life and nightlife alternating between alternative culture and having an overdeveloped social conscience.

I may or may not be a future doctor.

I've also at some point: driven a moving truck, worked as a bartender, tutored biology to the ungrateful and counseled dual diagnosis individuals (chemical addictions & mental illness).

I'm a devotee of classical and heavy metal music styles. (With somewhat of a bonus cosmetic shopping addiction.) I also write and publish poetry in my spare time. No, you can't read it. I'm shy. &I am perpetually updating my bookshelf! But I only enter into "Library Thing" books I physically possess.

I was born in the rural zone, "where the trees are", in a teeny tiny town of Southern Chile.

About my libraryMy library encompasses my love of literature, memoir, gender studies, biology, microbiology, oral history, theoretical physics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, poetry, neurology, medicine and genuine interest in lived first person experience.

LT-ER Tag = Book featured on/or obtained through the Early Reviewer program.

May add other ARC's in future. Undecided.

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Real nameM.Tart

LocationNY

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceSep 19, 2008