Member solla

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Groups: Club Read 2009, Club Read 2010, Club Read 2011, Club Read 2013, I became a fabulous opera, Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple, Reading Globally, The Clocks Have All Stopped, The Idea of Justice Redux, The Writing Folder, Tropic of Ideas
Joined: Mar 25, 2009

Real Name: Solla Carrock
About My Library: Mostly I'm just putting down what I remember, though I've skipped adding a few things that I had no particular feeling about. And I think I will skip things like Computer Programming books, which are solely for information. I'd like to make comments about the books, but it will take me awhile.
About Me: I love books and words. I write poetry sometimes and have been working on a novel for a very long time. It is still way too long before I can retire and do as I like, but then my (self-imposed) work will be to write, paint and write educational software. I have one daughter who is 31 and teaches middle schoolers. She is a very good teacher. I've worked at a variety of things, for many years in social services, and lately as a computer programmer. My career as a computer programmer was interrupted when I joined Teach for America. It was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, and my daughter had just gotten out of grad school and landed her first teaching position, so it was a good time. I taught high school in Louisiana, and it was very tough. I do better with 9,10, 11 years olds, and when I got back to Portland I had a job working with that age again that made me feel better about myself.

Besides the website listed below I have bootstraps.net oriented towards kids, and to share writing (so far only part 1 of novel is up) saltysol.wordpress.com/
Location: Portland, Oregon
Homepage: http://saltysol.com
Memberships: LibraryThing Early Reviewers
Currently Reading: Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) by Noam Chomsky
Favorite Authors: James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Randall Jarrell, Edward P. Jones, Käthe Kollwitz, Doris Lessing, Carson McCullers, E. Nesbit, Flannery O'Connor, Marilynne Robinson, Maurice Sendak, J. R. R. Tolkien