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Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco
Darkness at Noon (The Modern Library) by Arthur Koestler
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) by Michael Chabon
The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
Dictionary of the Khazars, Female by Milorad Pavic
Secret History Of The Mongols by Arthur Waley
Jack the Ripper: Lighthearted Friend by Richard Wallace
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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 has, very recently, taken 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
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
What You've Been Missing by Janet DeSaulniers
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
A Study Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sayonara, Gangsters by Genichiro Takahashi
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
The Rape of Europa by Lynn Nichols
Ruined by Lynn Nottage
A Woman In Berlin by Anonymous
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
If I Stay by Gayle Foreman
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Fall by Simon Mawer
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Proust Was A Neuroscientist by Jonah Leher
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Currently readingThe Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Master and Commander (Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
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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.
posted by emaestra at 9:52 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2009
posted by oregonobsessionz at 1:33 am (EST) on Feb 11, 2009
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posted by ArmyAngel1986 at 5:17 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007
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.
posted by ArmyAngel1986 at 5:17 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2007
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.
posted by Tim_Watkinson at 12:51 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2007
Anyways, my goal is to reach 300 at least by Christmas......ok after Christmas considering that I'll probably bring another boat load then.
posted by vwilkins06 at 12:38 am (EST) on Sep 13, 2007
posted by parelle at 3:29 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2007