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About meInformation professional, former copy editor, fond of NPR, dogs, history, movies, crosswords, food and cooking, comic books, languages and grammar, Judaism, trivia competitions, poetry, travel and law.

Recently finished: "The Black Hand" by Will Thomas; "Culinary Intelligence" by Peter Kaminsky; and "The Potter's Field" by Andrea Camilleri.

About my libraryAlways growing.

Groups(BOMBS) Books Off My Book Shelves 2012 Challenge, 50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Amateur Historians, American History, Ancient History, Anglophiles, Art is Life, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listenersshow all groups

Favorite authorsBill Bryson, Andrea Camilleri, Constantine Cavafy, e. e. cummings, Jasper Fforde, René Goscinny, Hergé, Homer, Arnaldur Indriðason, Mary Roach, David Sedaris (Shared favorites)

LocationIndianapolis, IN

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Member sinceDec 31, 2007

Currently readingLet's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

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We're less than 2 weeks away from the final season premier of Lost in the US. Come discuss Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge in The Island group!
I do hope you enjoy your books. I went with one suggested by someone else and the 2nd was chosen by what you said you like and what's already in your catalogue. Turns out choosing books for someone else is more difficult than I imagined it would be, but I enjoyed it.

Happy holidays to you too!
I finished The Symposium, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've never read Plato until this year. Can you imagine it? Each time I read a dialogue, I find myself engrossed in thought. Unfortunately, I can't think of which type of love I liked best, because all I can think is that the Greeks think I'm only capable of physical love, not spiritual! Once I get over that, I'll look again at the types of love so I can better answer your question. Which did you respond to?
Great name - I love it!
Just realised - that'll be because I should have been looking up 'skepsis'. Okay, I've got it - that name means you are doubtful as to whether you have a belly button! Am I right?
I'm fascinated by your LT name - please come and take a look at new thread in 'What are you Reading now?' entitled 'Where did your LT name come from?' It sounds decidedly Greek to me. Isn't Omphalos the naval? I looked up 'kepsis' in my Greek/English dictionary but couldn't find anything.
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