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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Sex by Madonna

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury

White teeth : a novel by Zadie Smith

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Member: perlle

Library298 books — see library

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Tagspaperback (221), unread (131), fiction (127), 1001 book (86), read (74), hardcover (66), used (55), nonfiction (47), US author (40) — see all tags

Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 30-something LibraryThingers, Awful Lit., BookMooching, Books People Tend to Love or Hate, Connecticut Nutmeggers, Feminist Theory, Geeks who love the Classics, Group Reads - Literature, Reading Globally — show all groups

Favorite authorsGeorge Eliot, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan POE, William Sansom, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBook Exchange, Borders Books - Farmington, R.J. Julia Booksellers

Favorite librariesWethersfield Public Library

About me I was born and raised in Missouri (Go Cardinals!), lived in New York for a few years, moved back to Missouri and somehow ended up in Connecticut of all places.

Current Picture:
Books and the act of reading are often connected with sleeping, dreaming, and comfort. It's a concept that I find interesting, and this picture just seems to personify that idea.

Genres I read:
I stopped reading fiction completely for about six or seven years and just read non-fiction. I like autobiography, biography, memoirs, history, media works, travel logs, and women's studies. But now I'm mostly back to fiction and have a lot of catching up to do on books I own and haven't read. Currently, I am generally interested in classic literature, horror, poetry, and short stories.

Lists I am currently working on:
I have a lot of lists I am working on related to reading. These are the ones I have chosen to focus on at the moment.
Short Novels (30% finished)
Top Ten (50% finished)
1001 Books (6% finished)

Besides books, travel is also very important to me. I've been to seven countries so far, and I hope to be able to travel to many more. I want to visit all the states in the U.S. Here's how I've done so far. (Driving through does not count.)

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About my library My library mostly consists of textbooks, classic literature, poetry, short stories, children's literature, and travel guides.

I own all the books in my library.
Books I have read but do not own I keep over here.

In addition, I find it easier to keep track of my 1001 books project in an alternate location.

Now Reading:

Homepage http://www.muddycrayonlion.blogspot.com

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Member sinceMay 9, 2006

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Hi perlle! Thanks for the note. I, too, like to contact my "You and One Other" LT buddies sometimes. Sadly, I only own one volume of the "Masterpieces of Adventure" set: Oriental Stories. I'll keep my eye out for the rest. Additionally, that collection is still among my vast "To Be Read" jumble. One of these days, though . . . Cheers from San Francisco!

posted by rocketjk at 4:44 pm (EST) on May 11, 2008

Thanks for your note! I have seen you around the 1001 books group, which I read on occasion but don’t do a lot of posting in. I’m currently (re)reading Crime & Punishment—next up is Phineas Finn. Big books, yay!

posted by hvhay at 11:55 am (EST) on Apr 26, 2008

I liked your comment about sad romances: "Perhaps a sad love story is considered more valuable than a happy one? Or more valid? I wonder..." It reminded me of a question I have always had in my head. If a relationship ends after 10, 15, even 20 years, is it a failed relationship? Or is it just an ended relationship that was successful for a while? Anyway, random thought I decided to share :).

posted by emaestra at 6:14 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2008

Thanks for the tip. I've copied your code exactly, as far as I can tell, but I still can't get the image to display. When I view each of our codes it seems to be exactly the same. Oh well.

posted by zhejw at 9:06 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2008

Would you mind sharing how you get the image of the book you're reading in your profile? I tried copying and pasting your code but it didn't seem to work. I'm pretty sure I've got it exactly the same (but with a different book, of course.)

posted by zhejw at 10:31 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

I liked it. I haven't read anything from that time period in awhile and it was my first Wharton, so it took some getting used to. I thought she perfectly captured the kind of obsession that can come with forbidden love and the feeling of entrapment that Ethan had. The ending was tragic but fitting. I'd like to read some feminist criticism of it. I'm sure there's been lots written about Xena! (Is that how you spell it? I listened to the audio book while commuting.)

posted by zhejw at 10:06 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

Wow...I just read Ethan Frome too!

posted by zhejw at 8:34 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Got your message. Don't worry about not starting with the tagging yet. I started doing a little. You can check out the library of TheIsland and see how I've been tagging. We're not facing any deadlines! :-)

We never came to any definite decision about exactly what works to include and what not to include. I started with just books actually seen on the island. After discussion on the board, a consensus seemed to emerge that we should include any books that have been referenced on the show. An example would be Locke talking about Gilgamesh as an answer in a crossword puzzle or "Through the Looking Glass" as a title of an episode. Those books are not seen anywhere in the show, but the reference is definite and obvious, so they should probably be included.

This would rule out, however, a book that might somehow be obliquely referenced by a theory about what is really happening in the show. We want to limit ourselves to specific references or the library could be endless.

I think the list of books in TheIsland library is pretty definitive right now, but feel free to add something that you see missing. Also, I won't see any episodes from the current season until the DVDs are released, so anything from this season is missing. Go ahead and add any from that too.

posted by zhejw at 9:59 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

I gave up on Catch 22...Brave New World...The French Leutenant's Woman...Alice in Wonderland...The Wind Up Bird Chronicles...The Crimson Petal & the White? LOL

posted by clm256poetry at 7:18 pm (EST) on Nov 30, 2007

I'd quite forgotten him myself. Thank you for the nudge - I will pull him out for my next read.

posted by benwaugh at 9:21 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2007

thanks for inviting me into the nutmeggers group! Although it was in June I guess I should check back here more often haha.

posted by dividedblue_eyedsky at 10:10 am (EST) on Aug 18, 2007

Sure. I'll pay for shipping and copying. Just give me a price and Ill send a check

posted by keren7 at 8:22 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2007

Hi

Did you ever find Adjunct: an Undigest by Peter Manson. I am having the same trouble in locating this book - its not even in the library catalogue, its not on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Allibris.

posted by keren7 at 1:23 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2007

Okay, so the problem was at least partly on my end...for a space in between books, you need to type "&_nbsp_;", but take out the spaces in between (I typed it in the comment I left you, and it got read as html...oops!). To make them all on the same line, make sure that you don't press enter after each of the image tags, just type them one after another. Here is a site with a lot of these basics. Let me know if this works!

posted by collsers at 12:18 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2007

600 four leaf clovers!

The one I found in that book is the only one I've ever come across - despite a youth spent lying in clover reading books.

Thanks for stopping by.

posted by A_musing at 2:47 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2007

oh, and to get a space to appear in between the books, you have to use more html. Just type " " once for each space that you want. I do five in between my cover images.

posted by collsers at 1:23 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2007

Thanks! It's actually just a bit of simple html. For each book, you'll want to type something like this (just replace the [ brackets with the pointy ones):
[a href="http://linktothebookpage"][img src="http://linktotheimage" /][/a]. You can get the image link by right clicking on the picture on the work page; if you're using firefox, there will be an option on the menu to "copy image location," and in internet explorer you would go to properties, and then use the address that is in the info box (it will normally be an amazon address, unless you use user uploaded images). Let me know if you have any troubles!

posted by collsers at 1:20 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2007

Not much trouble in finding books, no, but then we're still at the start of the list! :)

posted by VandanCisco at 3:58 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2006

Hi perlie,

Good to know we share some interesting books, and I've read quite of few of them too. The Anais Nin set of diaries I have NOT read as yet, only snippets here and there- have you?

Cheers

posted by thewordygecko at 10:12 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2006

A thing about poetry: people who read it tend to read a much wider variety of poets than the range of authors a fiction reader may favor. Maybe that's because, compared to prose, so much more of a poem is supplied by the reader and not the poet, so that the same sequence of words can be many startlingly different poems. You will enjoy--and perhaps benefit from--Practical Criticism by I.A. Richards. Don't be put off by the dry title; it's a lively and well-written book and a real eye-opener about how people read poems.

posted by Fogies at 8:23 am (EST) on Aug 31, 2006

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