Member: PaperbackPirate

CollectionsYour library (1,055), Wishlist (53), Currently reading (21), To read (520), Read but unowned (345), Favorites (14), All collections (1,452)

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About meMy profile pic is of me with my little reading helpers.

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Last year I read 44 books. My goal this year is 43, which is my age. If you want to see if I'm on track you can check my progress on this 50 Book Challenge thread.

I also am trying to finish an Alphabet Challenge. The Alphabet Challenge, 26 books with authors all beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, can be found here.

Other challenges I want to complete in 2019:

The Monthly Key Word Challenge

What's In A Name Challenge 2019
(read a book with these things in the title)
A precious stone/metal:
A temperature:
A day of the week: Sunday You Learn How to Box by Bil Wright
A meal:
Contains the word “woman”: The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
Contains both the words “of” AND “and”:

Interesting link, The "Mad Men" Reading List: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxnQbyG8nvQYVE5hQlJXNXRPYW8/view

About my libraryUsually I only keep a book after reading it if I love, love, love it (or as I like to say, it becomes a part of me). What you see in my virtual library are those books, an embarrassing amount of books waiting to be read, and a few books from my classroom library which is far too extensive to even begin entering in earnest.

I also enjoy wasting time using the "Read but Unowned" category. I have been a chronicler since I was a kid and have pieced together some of my reading life pre-LibraryThing through photos, journals, and lists of books I read during my summer breaks as a child. It's been fun entering them here and seeing which ones I remember!

Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Fall 2008 Reading Group, Aboard the Jolly Roger, Alphabet Challenges, Arizona Trading Post, Banned Books, Feminist Theory, Happy Heathens, King's Dear Constant Readers —show all groups, LTers with dogs, One LibraryThing, One Book, Playing games and solving puzzles, ReadaThing, Reading Globally, Teachers who LibraryThing, The Green Dragon, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsTracy Chevalier, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Kingsolver, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Harper Lee, Haruki Murakami, John Steinbeck (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresBookmans - Mesa, Bookmans - Phoenix, Changing Hands Bookstore, Chautauqua Institution Book Store, City Lights Books, Iliad Bookshop, Prospero's Books and Media

Favorite librariesChino Valley Public Library, Phoenix Public Library - Burton Barr Central Library

Other favoritesVNSA Book Sale

Favorite listsBooks for Educators, Favorite Literary Love Stories, Top Five Books of 2013, Top Five Books of 2014, Top Five Books of 2015, Top Five Books of 2016, Top Five Books of 2017, Top Five Books of 2018

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Member sinceJun 28, 2008

Currently readingThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
30-Second Elements: The 50 Most Significant Elements, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Eric Scerri
Unions For Beginners by David Cogswell
The World of Dinosaurs: And Other Prehistoric Life by Dougal Dixon
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray
The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz by Cameron Diaz
On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
Dawn of the Dinosaurs: The Late Triassic in the American Southwest by Christa Sadler
Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement by Eric Jensen
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Ross W. Greene Ph. D.
The Grandest Ride by Tom Brownold
It: A Novel by Stephen King
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón
10 Performance-Based STEM Projects for Grades K–1 by Todd Stanley
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels by PBS
Forever Frida: A Celebration of the Life, Art, Loves, Words, and Style of Frida Kahlo by Kathy Cano-Murillo
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
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