Member: SqueakyChu

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Favorite authorsJonathan Carroll, Khaled Hosseini, Yehoshua Kenaz, Stephen King, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Chang-rae Lee, Jonathan Lethem, Haruki Murakami, Amélie Nothomb, Tim O'Brien, Kenzaburo Oe, Amos Oz, Edeet Ravel, מאיר שלו (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Ellicott City, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Rockville Pike, City Lights Bookstore, Emerald Isle Books & Toys, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Rockville, MD, Friends of the Library Bookstore - Wheaton, MD, Politics and Prose, Silver Spring Books, The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc.

Favorite librariesTwinbrook Library - Montgomery County Public Libraries (MD)

Other favoritesKensington Day of the Book Festival, Stone Ridge Used Book Sale, National Book Festival, LibraryThing H.Q., BC in DC - Bookcrossers of MD/DC/VA, Tikvat Israel Congregation

About meIntroduction To Me: (User # 34,867)
I'm married and mother of three grown children. I work as quality auditor for a home health agency and as administrator for our family-based concrete contracting company. You can usually find me auditing nursing records, baking cookies, browsing the LibraryThing fora, bookcrossing, buying used books, cooking organic vegetables, doing sudoku, drinking coffee, eating chocolate, feeding 3 feral cats, or reading (not necessarily in this order). In the past, I have been called "the Johnny Appleseed of books". :)

My sometimes blog about vegetable gardening

My Current Challenges:
1. 999 Challenge - Read 9 books in 9 categories in 2009 - 74% complete
2. 75 Books Challenge 2009 - Read 75 books in 2009 - 80% complete
3. Global Author Challenge - Read 50 books written by authors native to 50 different countries (no time limit) - 28% complete
4. Dewey Decimal Challenge - Read 1 book in 10 categories OR 10 books in 1 category, whichever comes first (no time limit) - 60% complete
5. 10 State Challenge - Read 10 novels, each set in 10 different U.S. states (no time limit) - 10% complete
6. Books Off the Shelf Challenge - In 2009/2010, read 13 books that were on my shelf before December, 2009 (when I started this challenge) - 0% complete

About my libraryCurrent Read(s): Click on image(s) for more information!



My Reading Preferences:
I like both fiction and non-fiction. I prefer English translations of foreign (especially Middle Eastern or Asian) novels and books by lesser known authors. I'm attracted to matte-covered trade paperbacks as they seem more exotic than other books somehow.

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Notable Quote:
“I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. Clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.” (Astrid, White Oleander by Janet Fitch)

More Notable Quotes can be found in Common Knowledge.

Notable TimQuote:
"Chris and I are like Lennon and McCartney! (I'm McCartney.)" (2008-07-27)

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Updated: 12/06/09

Homepagehttp://squeakychu.blogspot.com/

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Real nameMadeline

LocationRockville, MD

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Common KnowledgeSeries (47), Awards (354), Characters (1397), Places (361)

Member sinceApr 15, 2006

Currently readingGarlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Wearing dad's head by Barry Yourgrau
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics by Miriam Engelberg