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About meI'm a writer by passion and training, and a brand manager by current profession. As a bit of a workaholic, reading is one of my only hobbies. I am an ambitious and compulsive reader. Two years ago, when my husband and I were shopping for a house, I was thrilled with the one we ended up buying because it is located around the corner from a branch of the Oakland Public Library! And now that my 4 1/2 month daughter is in day care, I am so excited that her nanny takes her to the library on Wednesdays for story hour. Perhaps she will end up being as big of a book geek as I am.

While I was out on maternity leave recently, I had this idea that I wanted to read every single book in our collection that I hadn't read yet. Of course, this is an impossible feat, because 4 a.m. breastfeeding is not conducive to serious reading. Now that I'm back at work and a regular routine, I'm devoted to taking on that challenge again. I want to work my way through our book collection before trying to read anything else (my monthly pick for my book group excepted, of course).

About my libraryI have a secret pride in my book collection and like showing it off the way some people like showing off art. Our house, an old 1920s Craftsman bungalow, has glass cabinets with shelves in the living room, and I carefully chose the books that would go in it, relegating the chick lit and marketing titles to a basement bookshelf. When I visit somebody's house, I check out their books out of the corner of my eye (and then I move on to their CDs).

My LibraryThing library is a combination of books I own and books I've read from the library. And, because I'm a published author of three non-fiction books, I of course had to include those in my library as well!

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Currently readingThe Good Earth (Enriched Classics) by Pearl S. Buck
All the King's Men (A Bantam Classic) by Robert Penn Warren
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North by Noah Adams
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Emma by Jane Austen
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Runaway by Alice Munro
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Building Strong Brands by David A. Aaker
Living My Life (Penguin Classics) by Emma Goldman
Gentlemen and Players: A Novel by Joanne Harris
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