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The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

Le Cycle des Princes d'Ambre, tome 3 : Le Signe de la Licorne by Roger Zelazny

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

The Siege of Isfahan by Jean-Christophe Rufin

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Groups"I See Dead People's Books", 1001 Books to read before you die, 18th-19th Century Britain, Actors Who LibraryThing, All the World's a Stage, Ancient History, Anglophiles, ARC Junkies, Banned Books, Board for Extreme Thing Advancesshow all groups

Favorite authorsPaul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Italo Calvino, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Mark Z. Danielewski, José Donoso, Alexandre Dumas, Umberto Eco, Neil Gaiman, Edward Gorey, Günter Grass, Hermann Hesse, Tony Kushner, Carson McCullers, Alan Moore, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene O'Neill, Boris Pasternak, Milorad Pavić, Salman Rushdie, Tom Stoppard, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, August Wilson (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAnnie Bloom's Books, British Bookshop, Frick am Graben, Main Street Books, Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Powell's City of Books, Reading Frenzy, Shakespeare and Company, Thalia-Buchhandlung Wien MH99

Favorite librariesÖsterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hillsboro Public Library - Main Library, Hillsboro Public Library - Shute Park Branch, Multnomah County Library - Central Library, Universitätsbibliothek Wien Hauptbibliothek

Other favoritesRose City Used Book Fair 2008, Wordstock - Portland's Annual Festival of the Book

About meThis library was originally a single person endeavor (Amanda's) but after enjoying the attentions of a fine young man (Adrian) it was decided that their two libraries should unite. Hence, Adrian, the LT user formerly known as FurrySmurf took the name Sollocks and has since acted as Amanda's better bibliophilic half. This seems only right since in the physical world Amanda will, in the very near future, take on Adrian's surname.

About my libraryRead by Amanda in 2009:

Consequences by Penelope Lively
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Memories of Summer by Ruth White
A Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Hobson
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler
Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
Onitsha by JMG LeClezio
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Vanishing of Esme Lennox by maggie O'Farrell
In The Woods by Tana French
The Likeness by Tana French
Run by Ann Patchett
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan
Slammerkin by Emma Donahue
World War Z by Max Brooks
A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
No Place Like Here by Cecilia Ahern
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolano
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stroud
Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
We Have Always Lived In This Castle by Shirley Jackson
Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima

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I hope I didn't sound too snappish today when I made the comment about what teachers are doing during the movie. I'm a little stressed this week trying to get everything done for report card grades due on Monday and hearing my juniors ask repeatedly "Have you finished our research papers yet?" I'll be nicer next week, I promise.

Enjoy your new Murakami and Bolano books. I noticed that we have at least three favorite authors. Perhaps I will check out some more of yours.
Hi – Great profile photo. I noticed that you had favorited the 2008 Rose City Used Book Fair. Just wanted to let you know that I have added the 2009 fair, although no events are available yet. They have pushed the date out to June 12-13, and relocated the fair to NE 56th & Alameda.
I meant to end my comment with "Hope you have fun!"

AA1986
Hi,
I read in the etiquette group that you're going to Austria and were wondering about some of the manners they have over there. I lived in Bavaria for 2 years, and here are a couple things I picked up:

hands should always be rested on the table, never in your lap

food is always eaten with utensils, never with your hands, unless it's a sandwich. That includes pizza and ribs. My dad and I went into town to eat at Pizza Hut once and automatically ate our pizzas with our hands, and the couple sitting next to us never took their eyes off of us the whole time we were there.
your picture is too much fun!

years since (ok, decades since) i've stepped foot in ashland. got a smile just at the meniton. brought back a few very very fuzzy memories.

too cool. try to get off those books now and then.
Seven hundred and fourtey one? SEVEN HUNDRED AND FOURTEY ONE??!! Holy cheese buckets Amanda, that's ridiculous! I'm at 51.... yeah 51, that's exactly 690 books less than you. Of course these are just the ones I remembered off the top of my head; there very well could be more.

Anyways, my goal is to reach 300 at least by Christmas......ok after Christmas considering that I'll probably bring another boat load then.
From the Reading Resolution thread on 'Five Big Books', I saw you were asking for recommendations on reading books Vienna. The City and the Book thread on Vienna got started today - http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...
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