Medlem: fannyprice

Bibliotek844 böcker — se bibliotek

Recensioner112 recensioner — se recensioner

Molntaggmoln, författarmoln

Taggarowned (660), unread (304), fiction (271), non-fiction (234), unowned (173), 20c literature (138), women writers (77), YA literature (65), American writers (62) — se alla taggar

Grupper18th-19th Century Britain, 30-something LibraryThingers, 75 Books Challenge for 2008, 888 Challenge, Anglophiles, Animal Lovers, Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Books in Books — visa alla grupper , Cats, books, life is good., City-Related Books, Commodity Histories & Micro-Histories, Cookbookers, Dystopian novels, Early Reviewers, Edward Gorey, Etiquette and Manners, Fairy Tale Readers, Fairy Tales Retold, Fans of Russian authors, Food History, Geeks who love the Classics, Girlybooks, Graphic Novels!, Group Reads - Literature, Hebrew Literature, I Love Jane Austen, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, ISLAM, Jewish Cookbooks and Cookery, Jewish Fiction, Jewish History, Language, Learning Arabic, Maps and Atlases, Medieval Europe, National Book Festival, Non-Fiction Readers, Read YA Lit, Reading Globally, Reading Great Books, Reading Resolutions, Russian books and language, Science!, Short Stories, Slavic Languages, Social history, Steampunk, Sweet Valley, Taking Salinger Seriously, The Carls and Their Penguin Friends, The City and the Book, The Middle East, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds, Travel and Exploration literature, two inches of ivory, Victoriana, What the Dickens...?, World History

FavoritförfattareLouisa May Alcott, Rachid al-Daif, Hiroshige Andˆo, Jane Austen, Esther Holden Averil, Hoda Barakat, David Crystal, Rashid Al Daif, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bret Easton Ellis, Anne Fadiman, Edward Gorey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Albert Habib Hourani, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen Kinzer, Naguib Mahfouz, John McWhorter, Haruki Murakami, J. D. Salinger, Marjane Satrapi, David Sedaris, Daniel Handler, H.G. Wells, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Delade favoriter)

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

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

Om mig I have a B.A. in Religion with a focus in Judaism. I also have an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies with a focus on modern Lebanon, Middle Eastern literature, and intellectual history. I love cats and robots, especially sad ones (robots, not cats), Jane Austen, and coffee! I am usually reading a number of books at one time - a big non-fiction thing, one YA/"easy" book, a book of short stories, a trivia book, and maybe one other book.

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Currently Reading And TBR Soon

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World - Nicholas Ostler (NF)
Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values - Phillipe Sands (NF)
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays - Anne Fadiman (essays)
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq - Ariel Sabar (NF)
Villette - Charlotte Bronte (F)
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen - edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (essays)
Men in the Sun and other Palestinian Stories - Ghassan Kanafani (short fiction)

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My Challenges for 2008

My General Challenges for 2008
Numerical Challenge - 75 Books
Author Challenges - 2 by Kazuo Ishiguro & 2 by Haruki Murakami
10 specific books - 6 fiction and 4 non-fiction




My 888 Challenge for 2008
8 Too Long on TBR List
8 Works of Speculative Fiction (Dystopia, Time Travel, Alt. Reality, etc.)
8 Favorite Authors
8 Social Histories & Social Commentaries
8 YA Literature & Graphic Novels - COMPLETE
8 New (To Me) Authors
8 Short Story & Essay Collections
8 New Countries

My Reading Around the World Challenge - Updated for 2008
Goal is to read at least 8 books from new countries this year.

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Recent Reads

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (F)
The Gashlycrumb Tinies - Edward Gorey
Jenny's Moonlight Adventure - Esther Averill
The Dark Flight Down - Marcus Sedgwick (F)
The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick (F)
The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837 - Ben Wilson (NF)

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Completed Challenges

50 Books in 2007

Om mitt bibliotek My Library
My library consists of my various academic interests - Middle Eastern history & politics, Judaism, Islam, social histories, English history - English literature, Middle Eastern literature, a few art books, books about maps, cookbooks, a random bunch of novels, and books relating to the languages I've studied (Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic). You will also probably find the occasional trashy serial killer or vampire novel in my library, because I just can't resist them...

My special interests are cute books about cats (which I initially received against my will and now accept as part of who I am), books illustrated by Edward Gorey, cartography books, etiquette books, and Jane Austen novels/associated critical literature & funny books that riff on Austen or refer to her. None of my collections are particularly huge at this point & I am currently not at all concerned about first editions, etc.

I do include books borrowed - from the library, other people, etc. - and books read but given away, lost, etc. in my "library", since I use it both as a way to track what I have and as a way to track what I have read. I try to tag appropriately so that its clear whether a book is actually in my physical collection at this point.

My rating system is pretty straightforward. 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. I do mark down for academic writing that is unnecessarily inaccessible (i.e.,"bad writing"). Anything three stars and above is recommendable.

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Medlem sedanMay 23, 2007