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A Dictionary of Russian Gesture - tekijä: Barbara Monahan

Keys to the Garden: Israeli Writing in the Middle East - tekijä: Amiel (ed.) Alcalay

The Reprieve - tekijä: Jean-Paul Sartre

Collecting Antique Maps - tekijä: Jonathan Potter

Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) - tekijä: Arthur Miller

A Reader on Classical Islam - tekijä: F. E. Peters

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James (Master Storytellers Series) - tekijä: Henry James

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Avainsanatowned (651), unread (294), fiction (261), non-fiction (226), unowned (165), 20c literature (137), women writers (76), library (65), YA literature (64), American writers (61) — kaikki avainsanat

Ryhmät18th-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 — näytä kaikki ryhmät

LempikirjailijatLouisa May Alcott, Rachid al-Daif, Hiroshige Andˆo, Jane Austen, Esther Holden Averill, 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, Lemony Snicket, H. G. Wells, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Yhteiset suosikit)

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

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

Tietoja minusta 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

The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick (F)
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq - Ariel Sabar (NF)
Middlemarch - George Eliot (F) (Group Read)
Villette - Charlotte Bronte (F)
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen - edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (essay anthology)
Hidden Camera - Zoran Zivkovic (F)
Men in the Sun and other Palestinian Stories - Ghassan Kanafani (short fiction)

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Middlemarch Group Read Progress

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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
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

The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837 - Ben Wilson (NF)
Jenny Goes to Sea - Esther Averill (F)
The Night in Question: Stories - Tobias Wolff (short fiction)
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love - edited by Anne Fadiman (essay anthology)
Yes, a Cat Named Marty Cohen - Wendy Gardner (F)
Kitten's First Full Moon - Kevin Henkes (F)
The School for Cats - Esther Averill (F)
Jenny's Birthday Book - Esther Averill (F)
Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag (F)
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (F)

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Completed Challenges

50 Books in 2007

Tietoja kirjastostani 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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So sorry you are having computer troubles. I will gladly fill in on the BSG thread.

I'm feeling grateful for my mac today. See you around!

Lähettänyt: littlegeek 7:16 pm (EST) Jun 2, 2008

Fanny Price HATES Windows Vista and is returning her Vista machine to Dell tonight.

Lähettänyt: fannyprice 9:11 pm (EST) Jun 1, 2008

The irony, of course, is that I probably also have relatives on the other side of the courtroom also! Like I said, 1000 ancestors and New England was a pretty small place in the 17th century:-)

Lähettänyt: avaland 9:04 pm (EST) May 22, 2008

Hello, fannyprice! Thanks for adding my library to your list of interesting ones. I was surprised to find that I HADN'T added your already, because I do enjoy reading your comments and getting suggestions from your list on the 75 Books thread. I see you're giving the group read of Middlemarch a shot. I'd be there if I hadn't already read ait three times, and if it was the busy end of semester.

Lähettänyt: Cariola 9:39 am (EST) Apr 27, 2008

Great comment today on Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Go, Fanny, go!

Lähettänyt: Nickelini 7:57 pm (EST) Apr 22, 2008

Given your interests and education I'm curious if you have read the work of the professor Nadia Abu (can't remember the rest of her name the New Yorker mag article is buried somewhere) whose tenure at Barnard created a firestorm. I am interested in your perspective on the scholarship and your objective view of her conclusions. I'm curious about an opinion from someone with your background. Other than that I really love your reviews and thoughtful comments! Ciao, Benet

Lähettänyt: Benet 1:10 pm (EST) Apr 19, 2008

Hi and thanks for your comment. I get so bonded to the critters that losing one is a sad time. My kids are in that 'tween' stage. They're grown & in college but not in permanent places where they can have pets--so I have all the pets they had while growing up. Some of them are getting pretty elderly. It was an unhappy shock to lose the youngest of them.

Give your purr people an extra scratch today!

Lähettänyt: streamsong 10:24 am (EST) Apr 17, 2008

Hey, Fanny. Re: Wide Sargasso Sea. My pleasure to back you up there! I was somewhat appalled by the post that you were responding to and was all set to reply but you beat me to you, and said it better than I would have. WSS has been on my to-read list for ages, but I'm moving it up to the top because I just studied Jane Eyre in a Victorian Lit course, so I want to read it while JE is still (fairly) top of mind. I'll let you know what I thought of it.

Lähettänyt: Nickelini 1:52 pm (EST) Mar 24, 2008

Hi, Fanny; just wanted to thank you for green-flagging all the false red flags from my review archives! Here's hoping that the new feature will do some good, and get rid of those flags that still muddy up my account. By the way, your advice has helped quite a bit; simply mentioning at the beginning of the review that I'm the original author has prevented anyone else from falsely accusing me of stealing from myself, and is something I now highly recommend other LTers doing if they are reprinting their reviews here that originally ran at other websites (like a personal blog, Amazon, Goodreads, etc etc). Thanks again for all your counsel on this subject, and here's hoping that everyone at LT gets a little better at reading all the details behind where a review here originally comes from before just clicking on that red flag automatically.

Lähettänyt: jasonpettus 8:19 pm (EST) Mar 9, 2008

Hey FP - it appears that our libraries are near clones. With an MA in Islamic Studies and a strong love of Austen, it's not hard to see why!

Have fun collecting, hannah

Lähettänyt: hannahdraper 1:02 am (EST) Jan 15, 2008

Hello Fanny, no need to be jealous of the book. After I won the ebay auction I found the same one $10 cheaper on abebooks - it will most probably still be there.

I really have to start checking all sources before I buy on ebay. Sometimes when I see a beautiful book my brain just switches to acquisition-mode... no room for logical thoughts left. But that seems to be a problem I share with many people here :)

Lähettänyt: J_ipsen 6:43 am (EST) Jan 14, 2008

Yes, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit! If you want to read Irish authors I strongly suggest short stories. My favourite writers are Frank O'Connor and Mary Lavin (born in Ireland raised in the US but spent the later part of her life in Ireland). For O'Connor I think you might like "My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories" I had to read these stories in school all those years ago. As for Mary Lavin "Tales from Bective Bridge" is very good.

Lähettänyt: liamfoley 6:16 am (EST) Jan 13, 2008

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on my review! I'd keep writing them even if they were just for me, but I always love getting feedback. :)

Although my review comes across a little harsh, I actually really enjoyed The Stolen Child - enough to stay interested when the story wandered, enough to write a multi-paragraph review (something I almost *never* did back when I read it), and enough that I still remember it pretty vividly, over a year later - it's definitely stuck with me longer than other books that I read at about the same time.

I do remember that I was expecting a lot more of a fairy tale going in, and I was really surprised that it wasn't really a fairy tale at all - it was a lot deeper and much more thought-provoking than I had expected.

Lähettänyt: fyrefly98 11:46 pm (EST) Jan 11, 2008

Thanks for the recommendation for The Power of Babel, fannyprice. I'll check it out.

I've never read anything nonfiction about linguistics, but one of my all-time desert-island favorite novels has as its main character a priest who specializes in linquistics, and some of the problems that arise during the course of the novel are the result of a miscommunication that had to do with language and cultural concepts, and I thought it was fascinating. ("The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell.)

Lähettänyt: Storeetllr 11:22 pm (EST) Jan 11, 2008

I actually don't remember how I came up with the name! I used to tell people all the time . . . but I've been using UnDeadGoat/undeadgoat since I first started participating in internet communities, I think about age 13? I had deadgoatgirl before that, for e-mail and IM. And I know I've written exactly where the name came from somewhere in my livejournal, but I don't really have time to read the ntire thing right now. :) I do seem to recall it had something to do with the orthodontist?

Lähettänyt: undeadgoat 10:17 pm (EST) Jan 8, 2008

Hi there! I love the Norton Critical Editions and collect those (over Penguin or Oxford) whenever possible. Some of the essays are more interesting than others, but what I really like is their sturdiness (for being paperbacks) and how well they age - not even a little yellowing after 10+ years. When I have a NCE in addition to Penguin or Oxford, often it's because I have a lot of notes written in the latter from my college days. The one advantage I find with Penguin is that the translations tend to be less stilted than NCE, so almost all my NCEs are British and American works.

My next Austen re-read will be spent with Fanny Price. :)

Lähettänyt: chanale 5:16 pm (EST) Jan 2, 2008

Oh, not at all. It's nice to kind of meet you. :)

Lähettänyt: frogbelly 12:17 am (EST) Jan 2, 2008

Thank you very much! I don't currently have a site set up, although I plan to have one in the future. I would be willing to do business via e-mail and paypal if you're interested, though. I have many more pieces besides what's on flickr and I do custom designs as well.

Lähettänyt: bluesalamanders 6:13 pm (EST) Dec 8, 2007

Good call! --> interesting libraries

I already had you on my secret crazy book stalker list.

Lähettänyt: desideo 5:14 pm (EST) Nov 5, 2007

By the way - your personal library comment inspired me to put Jane Austen in Hollywood on my Christmas wishlist!

Lähettänyt: desideo 5:01 pm (EST) Nov 5, 2007

Thanks for the link! I got the book a couple days ago but I will definitely check out that essay when I read it.

Lähettänyt: nperrin 6:32 pm (EST) Oct 25, 2007

Hey! Thanks for your comment about my Blindness review :) Makes it worthwhile writing them to get some feedback xx

Lähettänyt: princessponti 3:38 pm (EST) Oct 12, 2007

I just realized that we both live in the same general geographical area. I'm just a little north of you. I always think that people on LibraryThing are from some other part of the world!

Not only was Bandit my hamster, but the green bowl was a project my daughter did while taking ceramics in high school! :-)

Contemporary Israeli literature is my very favorite reading. I'm always picking up books by Israeli authors from my used book store or borrowing Israeli films from my public library. I just this week viewed the film "James' Journey to Jerusalem" which I enjoyed very much. Since I did live in Israel for a year (many years ago), I especially love the reminders of what a vibrant collection of cultures exits there.

Lähettänyt: SqueakyChu 1:18 am (EST) Sep 9, 2007

This was actually the first time I read The Hundred Dresses (I'm having a second childhood, currently working on the NEA list). I felt a knot in my stomach for Wanda - I can't imagine possessing that much dignity in the face of taunting.

Lähettänyt: chanale 2:25 pm (EST) Sep 8, 2007

I just looked at your library - I'm going to mine your library for some ideas on lit from the Middle East; in doing that map, I realized I have read extensively ABOUT the M.E. (my undergrad history major had a M.E. concentration), but am woefully ignorant of modern literature from any of the Middle Eastern countries(whether Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, etc.). It looks like you've been reading widely in the area.

Lähettänyt: A_musing 3:43 pm (EST) Aug 12, 2007

Thanks so much for all the articles you left! This is my first year teaching high school and I was stressing about all the research I'll need to do. What you've given me will be an excellent head start :)

Lähettänyt: cestovatela 1:47 am (EST) Aug 12, 2007

I have now seen your comments in "I Love Jane Austen" and "Hogwarts Express." They are very well thought out and insightful. I hope to see more!

Lähettänyt: compskibook 12:10 pm (EST) Aug 4, 2007

I'm enjoying your comments on Fanny Price as well, fannyprice (lol!). You're right, she needs defenders. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks she's great. I like Fanny because she is different from Austen's other characters. The closest other heroine would probably be Anne Elliot, but Anne is older and Fanny so young.

I look forward to seeing you more around the Austen group. Take care! :)

~ww

Lähettänyt: wisewoman 10:40 pm (EST) Jul 29, 2007

I really did find Barrel Fever to be almost impossible to read. The "stories" section was terrible! It seem laded with spite. The only reason I gave it a 5/10 in my review is that I enjoyed some of the essays in back and also, I have a really hard time rating a book below 2 stars (4/10). Maybe I'm being overgenerous in cases but there are only a few books I have read that we so terrible I would rate them lower than that. If the non-fiction had not been included in this book, however, it would only merit a 1/10. I'm quite glad this was not my first Sedaris. I don't believe I would have read any more.

Lähettänyt: thegreattimsbooklist 9:33 am (EST) Jul 23, 2007

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