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About meI am in my early 60's; a chemist by profession who's friends from high school on have been almost exclusively English or Psych majors. I have always read about 50/50 fiction/nonfiction with particular interests in people and what makes them tick, history, anthropology, and sociology. Within the last four years, I have taken up writing and with the encouragement of a weekly workshop have been writing memoir and a number of poems.

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Read in 2009
1) The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
2) Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
3) Wild Swans by Jung Chang
4) Memoirs of the Craft: On Writing by Stephen King
5) A Three Dog Life
6) More 180 Poems for Every Day edited by Billy Collins
7) A Hurricane is.... by Angelo Verga
8) Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
9) Searching for Memory by Daniel L. Schacter
10) Local Visitations, Poems by Stephen Dunn
11) Wellspring, Poems by Sharon Olds
12) Northern Clemency
13) Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
14) Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Roades-Courter
15) Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
16) The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser
17) Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood
18) Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
19) Repair: Poems by C.K. Williams
20) The Last Lincolns by Charles Lachman
21) Emma by Jane Austen
22) Delights and Shadows by Ted Koozer
23) Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
24) Embers by Sandor Marai
25) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
26) Columbine by Dave Cullen
27) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
28) The Hummingbird's Daughter by Urrea
29) Outliers by Malcomb Gladwell
30) The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
31) Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Meyers
32) Collapse by Jared Diamond
33) Old Friend From Far Away: The Art of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg
34) Glimpses: Iowa's Rural Legacy
35) Vanity Fair by Wm Thackeray
36) Capitol Men by Philip Dray
37) A Matter of Degrees by Gino Segre
38) Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horowitz
39) Sevants of the Map by Andrea Barrett
40) Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
41) Fidel and Che
42) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
43) Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's
44) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
45) Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskel
46) Causing a Scene by Charlie Todd
47) Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man
48) The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
49) Shimmering Images by Lisa Dale Norton
50) The Help by Kathryn Stockett
51) The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
52) The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan
53) The Intelligence of Dogs by Stanley Coren
54) Old Filth by Jane Gardam
55) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
56) Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
57) The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
58) Half Moon: Henry Hudson by Douglas Hunter
59) Wondrous Times on the Frontier by Dee Brown
60) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
61) Hope's Boy: A Memoir by Andrew Bridge

About my libraryThe library is a combination of my husband's and my interests. The cookbooks and psychotherapy books are his. Of the rest, he's read more than I since he's faster. We seldom both read the same book since we hear enough of each other's reading that we're more interested in reading something completely fresh and new. Naturally some books inspire reading by both.

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Real nameSharon Bisaha

LocationLambertville, New Jersey

Emailsharonbi3comcast.net

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Member sinceApr 4, 2008

Currently readingThe Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel by Garth Stein
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman