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Om migAbout Me

I read and write about the Middle East for a living, which means I work all the time now and my off-hours reading consists almost exclusively of light, escapist books I can finish in a few hours. I don't tend to track strictly work-related reading here but you'll probably see some fiction, history, and politics from that region. I spent my adolescence as an aspiring Kremlinologist, so I've got a special interest in history and literature from Russia and the former Eastern bloc countries. Other random obsessions include language and linguistics, polar exploration, WW1, social histories, dystopias/speculative fiction, and basically anything having to do with England. Also, I collect children's books and am especially fond of the New York Review of Books Children's Collection.

I'm a bit of a dilettante - I love to learn new things and every book I read spurs in me the desire to read a whole different subset of (possibly unrelated) books. I'm a great planner but I often get distracted, which means I've got more unfulfilled reading commitments than I like to acknowledge and rooms full of books I haven't read. I spend way too much time reading book reviewers and book blogs, which only exacerbates the problem.

Follow All My 2012 Reading at Club Read 2012

I have two kitties - Mischa (little, tabby, girl) and Marty (big, black/white, boy) - who are sometimes visited by the ghost of their late, lamented brother, Ollie.

Om mitt bibliotekMy Library

The books in my library of greatest interest to me are those related to the history and politics of the Middle East and Middle Eastern literature; the Arabic and Russian languages; Islam and Islamic history; Judaism, Israel, and Jewish history; social history; history, literature, sociology having to do with England. On a less pretentious note, I have rather an obsession with young adult books, especially those of the fantastical or speculative nature.

I collect books about art and architecture and old maps, cats, and books illustrated by or about Edward Gorey. None of my collections are particularly huge at this point & I am currently not at all concerned about first editions, etc.

My library is a complete and accurate record of my reading only since 2007, when I joined LT and started obsessively keeping track. Anything prior to that is incomplete & based on my often faulty memory.

My Ratings & Reviews

My rating system is fairly inconsistent, frankly. My feelings about books are very much tied up in how I was feeling when I read them, why I was reading them at the time, what I expected vs. what I got, etc. I may be too generous with books sometimes, but I generally don't finish things that I find unbearable, unless forced to. When I rate, I generally don't differentiate between books for generalists and books that only specialists in a field would like - I just consider the quality of the work. Ratings for books read prior to 2007 are based on the aforementioned fallible memory. The nature of my reviews varies widely based on what I wrote the review for – books read in grad school get a very different treatment than books read now, since I’m reading for fun rather than for critical analysis.

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Past Years' Reading

2011: here
2010: here
2009: here and here;
2008: here;
2007: here and here

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Grupper18th-19th Century Britain, Anglophiles, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Cats, books, life is good., Club Read 2009, Club Read 2010, Club Read 2011, Club Read 2012, Dystopian novels, Fans of Russian authors —visa alla grupper, Feminist Theory, Girlybooks, I Love Jane Austen, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, In Translation, Loitering with Intent, New York Review Books, North and South Poles, Reading Globally, Reading Globally II, The Middle East, World War One History

FavoritförfattareLouisa May Alcott, Rachid al-Daif, Jane Austen, Esther Averill, Hoda Barakat, David Crystal, Barbara Ehrenreich, Anne Fadiman, Jasper Fforde, Edward Gorey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Russell Hoban, Albert Hourani, Kazuo Ishiguro, Shirley Jackson, Ghassan Kanafani, Stephen Kinzer, Arnold Lobel, Sandra Tsing Loh, Naguib Mahfouz, Patrick McDonnell, John McWhorter, Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, J. D. Salinger, José Saramago, Marjane Satrapi, David Sedaris, Joann Sfar, Elaine Showalter, Lemony Snicket, H. G. Wells, Scott Westerfeld, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Gemensamma favoriter)

PlatserFavoriter

FavoritbokhandelCarleton College - Bookstore, Daedalus Books & Music - Columbia, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, Seminary Co-op Bookstore

FavoritbibliotekArlington Central Library (Arlington Public Library), Carleton College - Gould Library, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, University of Chicago - Joseph Regenstein Library

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Medlemskap LibraryThing Förhandsrecensenter/Ge bort en bok

VistelseortSilver Spring, MD

Kontotypoffentlig, livstid

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Medlem sedanMay 23, 2007

Läser just nuThe Celestial Omnibus (Signature) av E.M. Forster
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 av Joyce Carol Oates
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World av Margaret MacMillan
The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition av Alison Pargeter
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq av Stephen Kinzer
Memento Mori av Muriel Spark
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization av
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 av John Darwin
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 av Dan Ariely
The Empty House: and Other Ghost Stories av Algernon Blackwood
Faithless: Tales of Transgression av Joyce Carol Oates
Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution (Cambridge Middle East Studies) av Thomas Pierret
Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad av David W. Lesch
Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918 av Professor Michael A. Reynolds
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