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CollectionsYour library (811), Currently reading (13), Favorites (22), To Read in 2009 (17), To Read in 2010 (16), Read in 2009 (92), Read in 2008 (105), Read in 2007 (75), Read in 2006 (53), Children's Books (44), Read but unowned (199), Wishlist (100), To read (346), Reference - Arabic (22), Reference (65), Coffee Table Books (22), Cookbooks (22), YA Books (96), eBooks (97), Andrew's Kindle (16), Return to Parents (13), Abandoned (8), All collections (1,101)

Reviews160 reviews

Tagsfiction (367), non-fiction (308), history (252), 20c literature (177), women writers (171), 21c literature (120), Middle East (115), Middle Eastern history (108), American writers (107), unowned-library (106) — see all tags

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Groups1010 Category Challenge, 18th-19th Century Britain, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Author Theme Reads, Battlestar Galactica, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Board Room, Cats, books, life is good., Club Read 2009, Dystopian novels — show all groups , Early Reviewers, Fans of Russian authors, Girlybooks, I Lock My Door Upon Myself: Fans of Joyce Carol Oates, I Love Jane Austen, Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple, Monthly Author Reads, North and South Poles, Reading Globally, The Middle East, Workspace B

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Esther Holden Averill, Hoda Barakat, David Crystal, Rashid Al Daif, Barbara Ehrenreich, Anne Fadiman, Jasper Fforde, Edward Gorey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Russell Hoban, Albert Habib 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, Rebecca West, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)

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

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

About meAbout Me

My background is in Middle Eastern studies, with a focus on Judaism & Islam, Arabic literature, and Middle Eastern history & politics, and although I have fled academia, I still try to read a lot in these fields. See "My Library" for my other book-related interests. Every book I read spurs in me the desire to read a whole new subset of books - This year I am trying to delve more deeply into Russian literature, fiction and non-fiction relating to World War I, and fiction and non-fiction relating to Antarctica, the Arctic, and other frozen-a$$ places. I welcome all recommendations on these topics!

I am a reviewer on Belletrista.com, avaland's fantastic web magazine celebrating women's literature from around the world!



I am a slave to these little guys (from left to right: Martin, his late & lamented little brother Oliver, and Mischa, their spunky little sister).



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Currently Reading And TBR Soon

Follow All My 2009 Reading at Club Read 2009 here and here



I am gearing up to read probably at least 100 books in 2010 in the 2010 1010 Category Challenge - follow me here



My Reading Around the World Challenge

About my libraryMy 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 - particularly Islamic, Chinese, and Japanese - 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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Completed Challenges

My 2009 999 Challenge (again, not so much completed as abandoned - I suck at commitment)

75 Books for 2008

My 888 Challenge for 2008 (not so much completed as abandoned)

50 Books in 2007

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Member sinceMay 23, 2007

Currently readingThe Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Edward Copeland
The Celestial Omnibus (Signature) by E.M. Forster
More Shtuff - Mutts III (Mutts) by Patrick McDonnell
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels) by Jasper Fforde
One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse by Ben Yagoda
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds by Oliver MacDonagh
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England by Judith Flanders
Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
Two Women: A Novel of Friendship by Marianne Fredriksson
The Rough Guide to Shakespeare 2 (Rough Guide Reference) by Andrew Dickson
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