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About meI'm originally from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania -- a smallish quiet town in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern PA, two hours from NYC. My family's lived here for at least seven known generations -- and I'm the first to leave. They can't understand why anyone would move out West, let alone choose Los Angeles. :-)

I've lived all over -- small-town Pennsylvania; Washington, DC; Center City Philadelphia; Bethesda, Maryland; Las Vegas; and Los Angeles. I like that L.A. is home to people from all over the world, just like New York. You can indulge in Brazilian cuisine, visit the Thai Buddhist temple, practice Spanish in your neighborhood Oaxacan taquerias, chat with your French artist-friends, or watch the world go by with your boba tea in Little Tokyo.

About my libraryMy library's pretty eclectic. From non-fiction (History of Salt, Music of the Primes) to a host of language books (I study a new language each month & meet to teach friends a few phrases over dinner).

Fiction-wise, I love sci-fi to the classics. I graduated with my Master's in English, concentrating in 1930s experimental American fiction (Dos Passos, Faulkner). All these years of sitting through English classes made me realize I am really behind in my reading -- which is why I love the concept of LibraryThing, since it encourages everyone to read more and get inspired by viewing others' collections.

My husband and I co-host a monthly book group in West Los Angeles & Santa Monica - feel free to join us anytime. There's lots of room for new friends.

I can't wait to meet more LibraryThing friends! Definitely give me a holler if you love books and live in the area...or if you love books and don't live in the area. ;-)

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Hi,

I would like to invite you to read my new fantasy novel, "Gateway to DreamWorld." It has received rave reviews and has a shot at becoming a movie.

http://www.eloquentbooks.com/GatewayToDr...

Brenda Estacio

posted by Bks2plz at 1:06 am (EST) on Aug 20, 2009

Hi Jen,
You look like a nice person. Thanks for the invitation. I'm mostly way too busy (or too disorganised?) to spend too long on the computer. I live as a single father with two sons in Amsterdam, though I have remarried but my wife lives in Ireland and we are only together some seven weeks a year divided over several (school)holidays. Quite a mess, isn't it!
Anyway, because of that (and the formatting my oldest son does on the computer to get his games to run more smoothly!)I've only now found your invitation and also because of that I won't accept it right now, but thanks anyway!

posted by cugel at 10:15 pm (EST) on Jun 16, 2007

Hope you will accept the invitation to join the Romance Language group.

For your next dinner lesson, consider this proverb from Swiss Romansh:

"Tanter duos sondas daja bleras surpraisas." (Pronounce it more or less like Italian, with the "j" as in German).

Meaning: "Between two Saturdays there are many surprises."

posted by denseatoms at 11:00 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2007

I finally found your message. I don't do much here except add books, but I did join so that will probably change. Right now my book club is reading "A Farewell to Arms". I'm trying to catch up with all the books I should have had read by now. Kimmie

posted by KMDHOW at 10:21 am (EST) on Jan 24, 2007

Hello, thanks for the invitation.

I used to facilitate several book groups... one on poetry, one for 19th century novels, one on history. Did you know that I used to do book groups or was your invitation random?

Thanks,

Jerry

posted by JerryMonaco at 2:14 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2007

Thanks for the invite! I'm not in a book club right now, but I think I'd like to be!
---Kim (Ancientgirl)

posted by Ancientgirl at 4:47 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2006

Thanks, Jen!

Oh yes - whatever faults London may have otherwise (the smell, the crowds, the transport), it is quite wonderful for book shopping! It's a dangerous place to live as an addict. I'd be much healthier, I think, living in some shack on the edge of Scotland with nothing but sheep and bracken to peruse!

My wife is steadily more resigned by the year that at Christmas I shall be showered with books from numerous friends, and that since I wasn't the one who bought them, none of them can precisely be my fault. So 'tis the season to be jolly! (I think she'll be giving me shirts again this year. Without any words across them whatsoever.)

Hope you have a great Christmas too, and all your books are fat and fascinating!

Rob xx

posted by shearrob at 6:55 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2006

Hi Jen,

I joined the book club group. Thanks for the invite!

posted by SnoopingBunny at 12:56 am (EST) on Dec 8, 2006

thank you so much for the warm invitation to join your literary club.

*grin* it's the ONLY comment i've gotten so far and so it made my week seeing it on my page!!

i'd love to join your group (and i have accepted) but i can only promise to do my best e-wise since i live too far away from L.A. to join "in person". come to think of it, i've never actually been a part of a book club that wasn't online. hmmm.... crumbs for the mind.

anyways, thanks again and i'll try to keep up although i find my interests wander in sporadic ways and often off the beaten path as far as what the masses read. don't mind my ramblings - it's the only way i get anywhere. ;)

posted by PandorasRequiem at 8:58 pm (EST) on Dec 6, 2006

Hi Jen,

Thanks for the invite!

-Sue, LitPark.com

posted by SusanHenderson at 8:04 am (EST) on Dec 4, 2006

Thank you for the invitation, but I have not caught up with all the books in my own collection yet.

posted by moncrieff at 5:50 pm (EST) on Nov 29, 2006

Thanks for the invite, but as a grad student I barely have time to read for anything other than school/work. At least, not on a regular basis

posted by k8s at 11:01 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2006

Thanks for the invite, Jen!

Some fascinating books in your collection, by the way - anything which can have the word 'experimental' applied to it gets me excited!

All the best

Rob

posted by shearrob at 10:58 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2006

Hey there:

Major kudos on inviting me to this special group! By any off chance you know of any book clubs in and around NYC?

posted by seemingmeaning at 12:21 am (EST) on Nov 27, 2006

Jen,
Thanks for the invitation. I have joined but I am terrible about reading under deadlines. I will do my best however. this looks very interesting.

posted by archangelsbooks at 11:49 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2006

Thank you very much for your invitation, Jen, but I have no discipline and I never will. :D The thought of having to read something by a deadline gives me hives. But if I ever join a club, I will remember your kind offer.

Best regards!

posted by lorsomething at 8:33 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2006

Thanks for the invitation to the book club group. As a California resident you might be interested in the January selection of a "Classic Books" group to which I belong, The Octopus by Frank Norris.

posted by jwhenderson at 3:52 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2006

Hi Jen,

Thanks for the invite. After reading your profile, I thought you might appreciate a tip: If you haven't already, visit the Heritage Book Shop on Melrose. It's fabulous, even if you just go to browse the collectible books there. AND there is a wonderful cafe, the Urth Cafe, where you can have a great coffee or meal. And then, to top it all off, next door is the Bohdi Tree Bookstore for all your spiritual book needs. Booklover paradise all in one LA City Block!

I find all your language books fascinating. I'm teaching myself to read in Spanish so that I can read Garcia Marquez and co. in the orginal. I figure it will be a long term goal!

posted by jveezer at 12:00 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2006

Hi Jen,
Thanks for the invite. I've just joined a book club for the first time, twice. Here on LT with the Green Dragon group and in 'real life'. I've read one book with each and it's been interesting. This looks like it will be a great group to share ideas and experiences.

Sandra

posted by sandragon at 2:17 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2006

I appreciate your invitation; I do not have much time to participate in a regular club, and I rarely read anything on the best sellers list--or at least not the current one! Ha Ha.

Thanks, anyway,

posted by haylan at 11:59 am (EST) on Nov 15, 2006

thanks for the note. i am not promoting the bookclub simply because we are already at the right size - or if anyhting a bit too big. i blog about some of the meetings because i would love to see more folks locally setting up groups of this kind. there aren't enough people reading - i guess that is the situation worldwide these days, but we feel it even more acutely in malaysia where there has never been a particualrly strong reading culture.

posted by bibliobibuli at 11:04 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2006

Thanks for inviting me to your group.
I don't really do book clubs - although some day I may want to join one!
bethlea

posted by bethlea at 11:22 am (EST) on Nov 14, 2006

Hi Jen,
Spring has been kind of unpredictable this year. Wonderful if you could visit down under some time. I am enjoying the book club discussion boards - inspires me to think about pulling together another group.
cheers, Aileen

posted by akenned5 at 5:50 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

Hello. Sounds like a great idea and thanks for the add - but I'm not a member of any book club because I'm the only "library-thinger" in Cambridge, UK! If there is anyone else out there, let me know!

posted by wrappedupinbooks at 4:31 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

Jen, What a great idea. And what timeing. The twinsburg public library has asked me to start a Classics book group in addition to my mystery one. It starts in December with Anthony Trollope's "The Warden". January I picked King Solomons Mines, hopefully to bring more male readers (wait till they find out it is a romance of Africa). In February I'll be doing Fanny Burney's 'Evelina', one of my favorite authors. thanks, bob

posted by bjbookman at 2:16 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

Jen: Thank you for the invitation. I am an habitual isolato when it comes to reading (though as ex-English major/grad student - a thing, incidentally, as useful as a cork-screw in Saudi Arabia - I have had a good many years of institutional book-clubbing) - so I'd feel a bit like that feral boy of Avignon in your midst, but am happy to lend my support in any way your group might find useful. Regards, BW

posted by benwaugh at 11:24 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

many thanks for the invitation - promoting book clubs interests me greatly esp. as there are hardly any here in malaysia

i often blog our meetings so will post the links when they happen

sharon

posted by bibliobibuli at 5:24 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

many thanks for the invitation - promoting book clubs interests me greatly esp. as there are hardly any here in malaysia

i often blog our meetings so will post the links when they happen

sharon

posted by bibliobibuli at 5:11 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

Hello, Jen,

Thanks for the invitation. I'm going to decline, though, because I prefer to be able to read what I want to read when I want to read it.

Good luck with your group.

posted by bookstothesky at 3:31 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

Hi Jen

Thanks for the invitation. I'll do simething about it.

Dave aka bemidjian

posted by bemidjian at 10:34 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2006

Hi Jen,

I have never been in a book club. :)

bt

posted by bluetyson at 10:22 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2006

Thanks for the invite Jen,
I'd love to join.

Alana.

posted by camelspit at 6:06 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2006

Hey Jen! Looking forward to YOUR book club! =)

posted by Daisyducc at 3:28 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2006

Are you THE Jen!
Wowie wow wow!
thanks for the info
love
x

posted by jennxlynch at 9:27 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2006

Hi! Thanks for the invite to the book club group. I have joined and look forward to discussions and ideas.
cheers, Aileen

posted by akenned5 at 6:13 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2006

Here are some book club selections we've posted for LA:

Westside Book Group: "Jennie" by Douglas Preston @ Palms.

Burbank Book Group: "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein @ Burbank.

Westside Book Group: "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk @ Palms.

Westside Book Group: "Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul" by Tony Hendra @ Palms.

West Los Angeles Book Group: "The Final Solution: A Story of Detection" by Michael Chabon @ West LA.

Westside Book Group: "Animal Crackers" by Hannah Tinti @ Palms.

Santa Monica Book Club: "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman @ Santa Monica.

West Los Angeles Book Club: "The Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx @ West LA.

West Los Angeles Book Club: "His Coldest Winter" by Derek Beaven @ West LA.

Westside Book Group: "Germinal" by Emile Zola @ Palms.

West Los Angeles Book Club: "The News from Paraguay: A Novel" by Lily Tuck @ West LA.

West Los Angeles Book Club: "March" by Geraldine Brooks @ West LA.

West Los Angeles Book Club: "Persuasion" by Jane Austen @ West LA.

West Los Angeles Book Club: "The Professor's House" by Willa Cather @ West LA.

Not quite what you're looking for? No problem. We have tons of other Book Group options...just click here!.

posted by mypcjen at 1:08 am (EST) on Oct 23, 2006

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