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About meI'm very close to 60 and I retired on Hallowe'en, 2008!!!

Interests: music (I'm a singer-songwriter/guitarist and play a bit of electric bass; and I sing with a women's choir; I LOVE singing harmony and arranging songs), political activism, photography, organic gardening, writing.

The photo: 60th Birthday.

Currently reading: (January 4, 2011)

A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym

Up Next (or soon):

The White Family by Maggie Gee

First completed books of the year, 2011:

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (book group read)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

2010 reads (click here to see these in my library):
*= Recommend
**=Highly recommend

January

The Bone People by Keri Hulme**
The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman**
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann**
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger**
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat**
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy**
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss**
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer**

February

The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett**
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips**
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym**
Possession by A.S. Byatt*
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson*

March

The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi**
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese**
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli**
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot**
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson**

April

Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
Watermark by Vanitha Sankaran**

May

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier**
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir by Elna Baker **
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich*
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens*
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (re-read)**

June

Potiki by Patricia Grace**
The Love Ceiling by Jean Davies Okimoto*
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson**
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett**
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson**
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry************

July

The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini**
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym*
The Outcast by Sadie Jones**
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg**
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson**
Property by Valerie Martin**
White Teeth by Zadie Smith**
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson**
The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent*
Home by Marilynne Robinson**

August

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell**
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende**
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King**
Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly (DNF)
The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
All Passion Spent by Vida Sackville-West**
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein**
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger**
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett**
Dirt Music by Tim Winton **

September

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts**
Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Tower, The Zoo and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart**
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson**
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach**
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga**
Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther**
Old School by Tobias Wolff**
Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson**

October

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri**
Still Life by Louise Penny*
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel**
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison**
Dracula by Bram Stoker**
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls*
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie**

November

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck**
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Siege by Helen Dunmore**
Silk by Alessandro Baricco**
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin*
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood**

December

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell**
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather**
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
Room by Emma Donoghue*
The Outlander by Gil Adamson**
Pass It On by Joanna Macy**

Book of the Month, 2010

January: The Hearts of Horses
February: The Voyage of the Narwhal
March: Cutting for Stone
April: Watermark
May: Remarkable Creatures
June: Lonesome Dove
July: The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
August: Island Beneath the Sea
September: Shantaram and Packing for Mars
October:Wolf Hall
November: The Siege
December: The Outlander

My 75 Book Challenge for 2011

My 75 Book Challenge for 2010

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About my libraryMy LT library is a combination of books I own, books I've read (some in the distant past and can't remember too much about them, other than I liked them a lot or disliked them a lot) and books on my list to read.

My ratings explained:

1/2 to 2 stars: wouldn't recommend to anyone. 1/2 star is meant to be an insult.
2 1/2 stars: acceptable, probably wouldn't recommend
3 stars: average, might recommend, depending on genre
3 1/2 stars: Pretty good read. I also use this for books I read a long time ago that I know I at least liked but can't recall much about
4 stars: Really good writing, good story, highly recommend.
4 1/2 stars: Darn near perfect.
5 stars: Stunning. I was gobsmacked.
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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2011, Girlybooks, Group Reads - Literature, Monthly Author Reads, Orange January/July, The 11 in 11 Category Challenge, The Prizes, The Red Room

Favorite authorsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Christina Baldwin, Elizabeth Berg, Geraldine Brooks, David James Duncan, Louise Erdrich, Molly Gloss, Kate Grenville, Joanne Harris, Khaled Hosseini, Kazuo Ishiguro, Derrick Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Jack Kornfield, Anne Lamott, Lori Lansens, Ann Patchett, Daniel Quinn, David Sedaris, William Shakespeare, Anita Shreve, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Leo Tolstoy, Rose Tremain, Gail Tsukiyama, Sarah Vowell, Alice Walker, Sarah Waters, Terry Tempest Williams (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresAnnie Bloom's Books, Broadway Books, In Other Words feminist community center - Bookstore & Library, Looking Glass Bookstore, Multnomah County Library - Title Wave Used Books, Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Powell's City of Books (Portland)

Favorite librariesMultnomah County Library - Belmont Branch, Multnomah County Library - Central Library

Other favoritesWordstock - Portland's Annual Festival of the Book

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Currently readingWild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore
The White Family by Maggie Gee
The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes by Andy Karr
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
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Hey there! I just posted this over on Oregon Readers Thread. Maybe you can come?

I thought it might be fun to meet some local people, so I wanted to throw out the idea of meeting at Annie Bloom's in Multnomah Village, and then we could go next door to O'Connors for some drinks or food. I am proposing Thursday, the 28th of February. Why Thursday? Because that is the best night for SugarCreekRanch and the only restriction I know so far. And why not earlier? Because the 14th is Valentine's and the 21st is my Bday, so my family has dibs. Thinking 7:00ish? Sound good to anyone?

Hugs, Kim
Happy new year and great reading for 2012! - Karen
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Love this pic!
I saw your recommendation of Fingersmith for people who like Women in White with your comment that you see where Sarah Waters got her inspiration. How funny. That's the first thing I thought when the artist arrives late at night to Limmeridge House after missing a train then is lead into a dark house by a single servant. There are the two daughters, one beautiful, one plain, and the creepy, art loving uncle who can't stand noise, the proposed vile marriage and a woman wrongly incarcerated in a private mental asylum. Who could deny that's where her ideas came from? Yet I note there are 3 thumbs down. What could these people be thinking? Of course, I'm only about 1/3 of the way through, and I imagine Collins' twists and turns won't be the same as Waters', but one has to see the basic similarity.
Nice.
teelgee,
I'm new to the Group Reads--Literature and noticed that the home page of the group usually features the book currently being read. I was wondering if you could post Les Miserables instead of Heart of Darkness which is now past. Also there is a photo of a very pleasant young lady featured on the page who no one seems to know. Interesting. (?)
I have enjoyed posting my comments on The Way We Live Now (back in January) and Les Miserables (February) which are the two books the group chose for the first quarter 2011. So far I've not gotten much in the way of response from other members but I intend to continue to post with the hope that eventually someone will say something. I am impressed with the list of wonderful books the group has read so far and look forward to future reads.
Hi Terri,

Sorry for the late reply; I just arrived home in Atlanta after spending the last week with my best friends in Wisconsin.

In the first instance, leukemic cells are known to metastasize to the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), an area that is relatively protected from the immune system and oral or intravenous chemotherapy. That's why a lot (if not all) of the kids with ALL receive intrathecal chemotherapy, which is administered directly into the spinal canal. Recurrence in the spinal canal is quite common, and the pressure of the leukemic cells within the spinal canal can press on the spinal cord, and cause focal neurological symptoms, such as a limp, gait disturbance, or loss of bowel and/or bladder function.

Leukemia is a cancer of immature white blood cells, which originate in the bone marrow. The original leukemic cell begins there, and then multiplies within the bone marrow of one or more bones, especially the appendicular skeleton, or the long bones of the arms and hands. There the effect of the leukemic cell proliferation often presents as bone pain (usually in multiple bones) or pathological fractures, or a fracture that occurs with little or no trauma, such as a simple fall that wouldn't be expected to break a thigh bone in normal situations. The expanding bone marrow is the cause of the pain and the weakening of the bone matrix. Unfortunately I've taken care of at least a dozen toddlers that presented with pain in multiple bones (which in itself is a red flag for leukemia), and were diagnosed with leukemia after an MRI showed that the bone marrow lit up in mulitiple bones.

I'm glad that you're enjoying "The Emperor of All Maladies", and I look forward to your comments about it.

Cheers,
Darryl
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I've made your mudflap my new desktop background. I love it.
Terri,

I saw that package while on the way out of my house (to help my rabbi assort some books). I thought the package was something funny that you sent me so I put it aside. I figured I probably would enjoy it more if I had time to sit down leisurely when opening it instead of opening it and quickly running out. I was right! What a delightful surprise it was!

M.
Hi Terri,

Regarding fictional works about medicine I'd highly recommend "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese, "The Plague" by Albert Camus, "The Giant, O'Brien" by Hilary Mantel, and "Grace Williams Says it Loud" by Emma Henderson (I don't think I reviewed the last book this fall, but it was awfully close to being one of my top 5 reads of the 4th quarter). I'll have to think of other books that would be applicable.

I haven't read "A Midwife's Tale", but I'll look out for it. I enjoy Roy Porter's books; he's probably the most famous and highly regarded British medical historian. Other books I've greatly enjoyed are "The Social Transformation of American Medicine" by Paul Starr, "Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures" by Richard Barnett, "The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher" by Lewis Thomas, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman, "Another Country" by Abraham Verghese, and, of course, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. I'll have to think of other books that fit the bill (and I promised Stasia that I would compile a list of my favorite books about medicine and health, fictional and nonfictional).

I'd highly suggest looking at the books that have been listed for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize (http://www.wellcomebookprize.org/), a new British literary award that celebrates medicine in literature. The book I'm reading now, "Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox" by Gareth Williams, made the 2010 shortlist, and this year's award was won by "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". The web site also includes books written prior to 2009 that would have been strong candidates for the award had it been in place at that time.

Another good resource for excellent science books, including books about medicine, is the Royal Society Prize for Science Books (http://royalsociety.org/science-books/), another UK literary award. The book I had intend to bring with me, "Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution" by Nick Lane, won the 2010 award.

I plan to read more nonfiction books on medicine and science in 2011, preferably 1-2 books every month, and I'll definitely post reviews of these books soon after I read them. I'll also mention books that I come across or hear about.

I'd also love to revive the Medicine group on LT, which has become dormant, particularly if there are at least a handful of people who are interested in participating. I'll post a message about this in one of my first threads of 2011 on my 75 Books and Club Read threads (if you're interested, please help me to remember to do this in case I forget!)

Have a Happy New Year, and I look forward to seeing you on LT in 2011!

Cheers,
Darryl
Thanks for the warm welcome, I am 39 now, but will have just turned 40 by the time the baby is born (unless he/she comes early)...so you just barely have me beat. :) It's awesome to find someone with so many of my same interests...thanks for pointing that out!

Jenna
The frog is in the mail!

M.
Terri, psst! Can you please update the Group Reads Literature profile? It's missing Madame Bovary & Heart of Darkness. Thanks.
Terri,

This is a great idea. Count me in!

Pat
Cout me in...not sure how you'll work it, but I'm all for it.
Great idea! I'm in.
Hi Terri, I thought I had marked it before, but I had some saving problems so I don't think it stuck. Took me three tries just now but I think it's there. Thanks for letting me know!
No problem!

Stasia
Hi ~ Stumbled across your library this afternoon ....you've got some FAB books here so thought I would add you as an interesting library. I see that "Lonesome Dove" won your "book of the month" award for June. This has been on my to-read list for some time now and seems that everyone who reads it, loves it. I definitely must get this read ...and soon. I think I'm missing out. :) Are you enjoying "Wolf Hall?" By the way, I LOVE your profile pic ....they are just way too cute! Happy reading.
I am trying to get through GREAT HOUSE...I thought it was going to be a great read, but I can't even follow what is going on. I see you feel the same way about it...most reviews are good...but I can't get through it.

I saw your review...maybe you could shed some light on it for me.

All I have gotten is this desk was hers for 25 years and then it is taken away and then the next chapter she is at a funeral....it seems disconnected to me...very complex.

Help if you can...does it get better? I am about to stop reading it...I just can't connect with it. Maybe I need to give it a few more pages?
Good morning. I hope this finds you well. Are you planning on setting up a group read for the end of the year?
Hi!
I hope you are well. Please let me know how you are feeling.

Congratulations on your hot review listed on today's home page.

Take care,

Linda
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Love your pics ! All of you are just beautiful and look quite happy :)
I'm sorry about your "tweak" but glad the knee slowly gets better.

Rainbow Trout Ranch is in Antonito, Colorado which is about a 3 hour drive from Taos, NM. It smells so good, and the people are so friendly, but after reading The God of Animals I may look at them a little differently. One set of co-owners have 3 kids, excellent riders each of course, and my grandson always looks forward to playing with them (well, do you still say playing when they're 10? Hanging out with them?) After seeing how little Alice and Nona are forced into the business of making the clients happy, it's going to be hard to see the interaction the same way. This may be the last year we go, it's so expensive. But who knows, maybe I'll win the lottery.

I'm not on Facebook. LibraryThing is more social than I'd anticipated, and I'm really enjoying it, but can't see my self as a Facebook person, hermit that I am.
I'm having a hard time leaving my car because I hate to stop listening to The God of Animals. It's kind of like a precursor to Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres but set in the desert. Very harsh. I take in dogs but want to expand my rescue to this poor little girl and just smack her father in the face. You have to move it up in your pile.

About John Irving, since I'm not a writer I guess I can't understand what he's going through. For his early books to be so wonderful then just fall off doesn't make sense to me, but I guess one's creativity can't always be directed. I don't know. I'll just hope he snaps out of it.

I hope your knee is doing well by now. My big dogs ran into my sore knee 3 times in the last 24 hours. Amazing. This Friday we leave for the dude ranch, I'm hoping the knee will be good as new, or at least good enough not to ruin the vacation. However, if I have a little less time to ride and a little more time to read it wouldn't break my heart.
Physical Therapy helps. Good luck with it. I've had 18 sessions and my balance is much, much better.

Thinking of you,
Linda
Hi There

Thanks for your outreach.

How are you feeling today?
Terri,

How far are you in Cloud Atlas. I'm about 150 pages in and ga-ga over it. Mitchell is a genius. Back to my book.

Bonnie
Thinking of you. I love visiting your home page to see the bird photo.

The cortisone injection doesn't seem to be working. I'm in a lot of pain. The game plan with the neurosurgeon is that I'll have one more injection and if that doesn't work then surgery.

I know you can relate to pain and how it simply wears one down, emotionally and physically.

Take care,

How are you feeling today? I continue to think of you and send healing energy your way.

Love
Linda
Thanks for noticing me teelgee. Love your birds and dog. Combine my little Yoda and Amelia and I would have a dachshuahua too. My knee has been killing me for a week, hope yours is doing well.
I'm imply checking in to see how you are feeling today.

I've been thinking of you and sending lots of healing your way.
Just a note to say I'm thinking of you today and hoping you are pain free.

I'm so sorry that you are experiencing so many falls and that you may have another surgery. I certainly understand the effects of pain medication...and pain.

In the last six months I've had severe neck pain. And MRI showed compressed disks and narrowing in c4,c5,c6. The ortopedic doc. suggests either fusion or lamino plasty. In the meantime I'm in physical therapy three times a week and taking 1,000 of naproxen a day plus vicodin on days when the pain is very bad.

Don't you just hate these health issues?

Thanks for letting me know what you are going through. I'll continue to send all good wishes your way. I hope you are still able to continue your lovely photography.

Hugs
Linda

Hi There

Just popping in to say I hope you are doing well.
Terri,

I am so glad you got a laugh out of it! Can't believe it got there so quickly!

Hope you are feeling a little better.

Hugs,
C
Can you help me understand how to use mrpoll.com? I am trying to use it to set up a group read in the 1001 Books group. I am not finding mrpoll very user friendly. Thanks in advance for your help.
Terri - I notice that you have Voice of Her Own: Women & the Journal Writing Journey by Marlene Schiwy in your library. Do you have any thoughts on it? I'm considering buying it. Thanks! Joyce
Hi -- I noticed that you were interested over on Monthly Author Reads in Wallace Stegner..... On 75 we are starting a non-fiction Stegner [[Where the Bluebird Sings the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West]] on May 3......
Hi There

Congratulations on your hot review! Love the photos on your home page!
Just stopping by to say I read your wonderful review of Watermark (it's a Hot Review). You've added to my TBR pile! You must stop! :)
love the photos! You are incredibly talented!

All good wishes to you!
Hi Terri- Thanks for the suggestions! I've requested "The Arrival & The Invention of Hugo Cabret" from my library! Much appreciated!
Mark
Hey Terri- You mentioned giving me a few recommendations, on graphic novels. Of course, I'll take them. Stasia gave a few suggestions too. I'd also like to try crime graphic novels. Much appreciated and I hope you have a great Sunday!
Mark
Hi Terri - me again! Just to say - I loved your Laurie and Liza Jane pictures. I think I am liking this being able to put up photos to share. Hugs to all three of you! Julie x
Terri

I finished the Lansen's book last night. It is excellent!
Hi Terri, I just saw your comment about One Amazing Thing on the weekly thread. Thanks for that! I was looking at the reviews earlier and was beginning to think it was just me. It seems as if a lot of people really liked it. It just didn't work for me and frankly, if it was any longer, I would have abandoned it. Joanne
I am going to start rereading Chocolat today because I want to read The Girl With No Shadow. Let me know if you like it!
I hope the leg brace helps. These health issues do wear us down eh?

My week was sad but also very spiritual. I was at my dear friends bedside in hospice. She gently passed away two evenings ago.

How are you feeling? Any better?

Linda
Hi Terri,

I enjoyed looking at your library and reading some of your reviews. We have many books in common! And I LOVE the sweet picture of your lovely Liza Jane!!

Beryl
Terri,

I first heard about Henrietta Lacks from Laura on Darryl's thread. She thought he would have an interest because of the medical angle. But yesterday I read a review of it in the Wall Street Journal and knew I wanted to read it so now it's on its way to me from the downtown library. Here's a little from that review:

Ms. Skloot's book spans eight decades and tells the story of Ms. Lacks, an African-American whose cell tissue was harvested in 1951 without her consent and went on to be replicated billions of times. Scientists working with her cell cultures, known as HeLa cells, have developed cancer treatments, vaccines, and in-vitro fertilization and cloning technology. Hollywood producers made overtures even before there was a complete manuscript (one described a film adaptation as "'Erin Brockovich' meets 'Jurassic Park,'" says Ms. Skloot's editor, Rachel Klayman).

You can try to click on this link

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704820904575055832517240318.html?m...

or copy and paste but the last time I tried to send a WSJ link the recipient only got a little blurb instead of the whole article. I think NPR might've done a review also but not 100% sure of that. Anyway, this is supposed to read like fiction which is good for me as I need non-fiction for my 10/10 challenge and I'm not a big reader of it so I look for fiction that reads like non-fiction. Sorry to take up so much space here. I know what you mean about not being able to edit these comments LOL.

I hope you are feeling better today!

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Absolutely adorable!
teelgee;
And another one!~!
What are we going to do with you?
You are just red hot!~! Congrats!~!
luv n hugs,
belva
Whoo Hoo!~!
You are HOT!~!
Congratulations Terri!
hugs,
belva
Again, great job! I see that you added Lori Lansens latest book. Have you read it yet? I really like her writing.
Terri
Congratulations on not only one, not only two, but three hot reviews listed on today's home page!!! Kudos to you!

Linda
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