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Favorite authorsJames Baldwin, William Faulkner, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Randall Jarrell, Edward P. Jones, Kathe Kollwitz, Doris Lessing, Carson McCullers, E. Nesbit, Flannery O'Connor, Marilynne Robinson, Maurice Sendak, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)
About meI love books and words. I write poetry sometimes and have been working on a novel for a very long time. It is still way too long before I can retire and do as I like, but then my (self-imposed) work will be to write, paint and write educational software. I have one daughter who is 31 and teaches middle schoolers. She is a very good teacher. I've worked at a variety of things, for many years in social services, and lately as a computer programmer. My career as a computer programmer was interrupted when I joined Teach for America. It was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, and my daughter had just gotten out of grad school and landed her first teaching position, so it was a good time. I taught high school in Louisiana, and it was very tough. I do better with 9,10, 11 years olds, and when I got back to Portland I had a job working with that age again that made me feel better about myself.
Besides the website listed below I have bootstraps.net oriented towards kids, and to share writing (so far only part 1 of novel is up) saltysol.wordpress.com/
About my libraryMostly I'm just putting down what I remember, though I've skipped adding a few things that I had no particular feeling about. And I think I will skip things like Computer Programming books, which are solely for information. I'd like to make comments about the books, but it will take me awhile.
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Currently readingFateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) by Noam Chomsky
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 solla reviewed, rated, added:The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook) by Clarice Lispector  (read review) |  solla reviewed, rated, added:Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism by Clara Claiborne Park  (read review) |
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Asking me why in le salon? Why why why, I don't know.
I do know I thumbed up your Exiting Nirvana & Lispector reviews. Gotta get my hands on that Exiting Nirvana.
Yesterday I picked up a 1st ed. hc of P.D. James, The Children of Men, and noticed that...my goodness...you have 19!!! of her books. She must be really good, eh?
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:16 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 4:34 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:36 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2009
posted by WilfGehlen at 12:16 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:09 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 3:16 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 9:31 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
Richard's recent review inspired me to aim for something more personal (brief as it was). I have not read the Clara Parks book, but have just wishlisted it, and another one of hers that looked quite interesting too - Exiting Nirvana. I'm curious about your familiarity with the book and the subject. Have you worked w/the autistic? When I was kid in the late 70s, and autistic was a word one was hearing more and more of, I actually thought people were saying "artistic" and I wondered what's the big deal, so that kid is "artistic," so what? Lots of people are artistic! Just like I used to think at that time that Pink Floyd was the name of a singer and not a group!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:49 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 7:43 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2009
posted by Medellia at 4:49 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:17 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009
Well, I've been using LT very little for a while. Very much to do at work lately, and just now I'm having my summer holidays (quite late this year), doing other things than writing messages here.
I also had to skip my 2009 challenges at '50 books challenge', but I'm planning to make a new obtainable one for 2010, and I hope I'll get more time to write and post messages and comment on/review books I'm reading.
Yes, I still DO read books, both 'new' ones and books from my old tbr pile. Just now I'm reading and rereading books by and about Knut Hamsun.
I was in Hamarøy when the new "Hamsun Center" was opened at Hamsun's 150 years birthday August 4th 2009. My profile picture is one of my photoes from that experience.
Thank you for showing consideration.
Kjell :)
posted by kjellika at 2:11 am (EST) on Aug 16, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 9:54 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2009
And congrats, I just noticed, on your recent 1,000th book. Woohoo!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:41 am (EST) on Aug 9, 2009
I have not cracked Desert yet. I am plowing through JS and Dr N, which I am really enjoying, and also reading one of the Patrick O'Brian seafaring novels, which both have an Austenian tone to them.
The heat seems to have broken, at least the type of heat we were having last week. I didn't mind it so much but I wish we could turn off our AC at home. Kids are rebelling on that - not yet, still much too hot!
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:09 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:08 am (EST) on Jul 24, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:29 am (EST) on Jul 13, 2009
I definitely do not own all 906! I am far too optimistic in what I want to read, and love reading reviews - the Books to read in 2009 is a running list which I really try to make sure I use as my guide when going to the library or book shop. However, I also own far too many books which I have not read, which take up whole of my spare room including any daylight that might have got in had I not blocked the window in with books. As you might have gathered, this list is similar to your new growing list - and many on LT including Alcottacre's to be read 'continent'. I found your reviews via Club Read 2009 - I always like reading Avaland's reviews and happened to stumble across your list.
Happy reading,
Ceri
posted by cerievans1 at 6:22 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2009
posted by tomcatMurr at 1:15 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2009
Thanks for the group tip. I enjoy lists so of course the 10 books thread was a must see.
posted by bridgitshearth at 1:53 pm (EST) on Jun 17, 2009
I am now in my new job with the PDX Housing Bureau way downtown (6th & Stark) and the 10 no longer goes very near to it so I started taking the 17. But why can't we get together for lunch one of these days. Maybe just go to the square or the waterfront and bring sandwiches. I am so glad you're loving the Murr book and glad you're in the Salon Littéraire group.
posted by anna_in_pdx at 8:14 pm (EST) on Jun 16, 2009
It's the penguin in your picture I like! Well, actually I like the entire drawing.... And what's this about cats?
posted by bridgitshearth at 3:33 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2009
posted by PekoeTheCat at 4:20 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2009
posted by PekoeTheCat at 11:44 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2009
posted by OliviaBrooks123 at 2:12 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2009
posted by OliviaBrooks123 at 10:22 pm (EST) on Jun 7, 2009
Best,
Brent
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:30 pm (EST) on May 16, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:56 pm (EST) on May 7, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:28 am (EST) on May 7, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 1:57 pm (EST) on May 2, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 6:32 pm (EST) on Apr 30, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 12:38 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2009
posted by Fullmoonblue at 1:23 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2009
I loved reading your reviews. Some of the books are going on my "gotta get this at some point and read it" list. I'm still making my way through Ulysses and reading other books is starting to seem like a mirage-like dream...
posted by anna_in_pdx at 12:14 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009
http://christophertusa.com/
Thanks,
Chris
posted by cmtusa at 12:02 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009
posted by PsibrReadHead at 10:14 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2009
If you're going to read some Norwegian (or Scandinavian) literature I'll of course recommend most of the novels by Knut Hamsun, e.g. "Mysteries", "Hunger", "Wayfarers", "Growth of the Soil", etc. If you take a look at my 'author cloud' you'll see who is my all time favorite author(s).
Other favorites: "To kill a mockingbird" and "A raisin in the sun" (Among many others: Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Marcel Proust). I assume I belong to the "Literary Snobs". Like you?
Spring is just around the corner. A sunny day, but the trees aren't green yet. They'll soon be, I know.
Ha en fin dag (I wish you a nice day)!
Kjell :)
posted by kjellika at 5:27 am (EST) on Apr 15, 2009
I just added you to my interesting libraries, as I see you like Dostoyevsky and that you've rated "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson with five stars.
By the way: I read the first play of "The Oresteia" some weeks ago, and I'm going to read the next two later this year (Challenge: Reading 50 plays in 2009), and it looks like we share 47 books, many classics, I assume.
Greetings from Bodø, Northern Norway
Kjell :)
posted by kjellika at 3:02 am (EST) on Apr 13, 2009
I went through Joyce Carol Oates' entire ouvre when I was a teenager precisely because she was giving voice to the working class. Now, because of your comments, I want to read Sherman Alexie and James Baldwin.
posted by PsibrReadHead at 1:39 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 2:57 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2009