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About meI'm into visual studies. If I can, I'd just live happily among my books, with no one and nothing else, save for the most basic necessities. Books are easier to deal with, because they depend so much on you(r reading of them).

"Literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness. We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life." --Harold Bloom, "How to Read and Why"

About my libraryI've been keeping my books since I was old enough to read, so you'll find a smattering of children's books, as well as obscure ones.

Groups75 Books Challenge for 2012, Art & Books, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, BookMooching, Cinebooks, Historical Fiction, Museum!, MyPeopleConnection Book Clubs, Philosophy and Theory, PinoyThing!

Favorite authorsKōbō Abe, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Alain de Botton, Italo Calvino, Anne Carson, E. E. Cummings, Roald Dahl, Dave Eggers, Michel Foucault, Neil Gaiman, Hergé, Yasunari Kawabata, Mario Vargas Llosa, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzaburō Ōe, Sylvia Plath, Manuel Puig, Vilaynur Ramachandran, Ninotchka Rosca, Oliver Sacks, Craig Thompson, José García Villa, Kurt Vonnegut, Bill Watterson (Shared favorites)

MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

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Real nameJaymee

LocationPhilippines

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Member sinceMay 10, 2006

Currently readingThe Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by J. W. Ironmonger
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee