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Groups100 Books Challenge for 2009, 1010 Category Challenge, Gardening, Girlybooks, Group Reads - Literature, Monthly Author Reads, Portland Readers, Reading Globally, The Prizes, The Red Room — show all groups , The Story Sisters, What Are You Reading Now?, Yoga

Favorite authorsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Christina Baldwin, Elizabeth Berg, Geraldine Brooks, David James Duncan, Louise Erdrich, Kate Grenville, Joanne Harris, Khaled Hosseini, Kazuo Ishiguro, Derrick Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Jack Kornfield, Anne Lamott, Daniel Quinn, David Sedaris, William Shakespeare, Anita Shreve, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Leo Tolstoy, Rose Tremain, Sarah Vowell, Alice Walker, Sarah Waters, Terry Tempest Williams (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAnnie Bloom's Books, Broadway Books, In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, Looking Glass Bookstore, Multnomah County Library - Title Wave Used Books, Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Powell's City of Books

Favorite librariesMultnomah County Library - Belmont Branch, Multnomah County Library - Central Library

Other favoritesWordstock - Portland's Annual Festival of the Book

About meI'm not a voracious reader*, but usually have two or three books going at once, plus I recently started listening to audio books on iPod.
*Ok, thanks to LT I'm now officially A Voracious Reader.

I'm in my fifties and newly retired (on Hallowe'en, 2008)!!!

Interests: music (I'm a singer-songwriter/guitarist and play a bit of electric bass; and I just joined a women's choir; I LOVE singing harmony and arranging songs), political activism, photography, organic gardening, writing.

The photo: Liza at five months. Yes, one ear up, one ear down. She hasn't decided yet. (September 2009)

Currently reading: (October 21, 2009)

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

Up Next:

Something by E. Annie Proulx
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

2009 reads (click here to see these in my library):
*= Recommend
**=Highly recommend

January

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey**
The Road Home by Rose Tremain**
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout*
A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart by Maria A Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes **
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters**
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews**
Open House by Elizabeth Berg**
Tree Crazy by Tracy Gallup**
Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor*
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan**
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn*

February

Testimony by Anita Shreve*
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett*
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons*
The Vigorous Mind: Cross-train Your Brain to Break Through Mental, Emotional, and Professional Boundaries by Ingrid Cummings*
The Leopardby Giuseppe di Lampedusa*
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent**
A Mercy by Toni Morrison**
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak**

March

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry*
Zig-zagging: Loving Madly, Losing Badly - How Ziggy Saved My Life by Tom Wilson
The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez**
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith**
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield**
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather**
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks**
The Help by Kathryn Stockett**
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**

April

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett**
The Master by Colm Tóibín**
East of Eden by John Steinbeck**
The Spare Room by Helen Garner**
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi**

May

Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich**
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar**
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood **
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters*
Three Junes by Julia Glass*
At Risk by Patricia Cornwell (NOT recommended)
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro*

June

Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff (short stories)**
Cranford by Elizabeth Glaskell*
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey**
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff**
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson**
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins**
Something Beyond Greatness by Judy Rodgers and Gayatri Naraine
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki**
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg*
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje**
The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys**
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan**

July (most, if not all, of the books I read in July have won or been nominated for the Orange Prize. We call this Orange July!)

The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt**
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett**
The Colour by Rose Tremain**
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels*
Old Filth by Jane Gardam**
From Stone Orchard by Timothy Findley**
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani**
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt*
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant**
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle**

August

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld**
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan**
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon**

September

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson**
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith**
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin*
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama**
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan**
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier**
Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg**

October

Telex from Cuba
Love and Summer by William Trevor**
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa**
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes*
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford**
Stitches by David Small**

Book of the Month, 2009

January: The Night Watch
February: The Book Thief
March: The Help
April: The Hiding Place
May: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
June: The Wilderness
July: The Colour
August: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
September: The Earth Hums in B Flat

My 125 Book Challenge for 2009

About my libraryMy LT library is a combination of books I own, books I've read (some in the distant past and can't remember too much about them, other than I liked them a lot or disliked them a lot) and books on my list to read.

My ratings explained:

1/2 to 2 stars: wouldn't recommend to anyone. 1/2 star is meant to be an insult.
2 1/2 stars: acceptable, probably wouldn't recommend
3 stars: average, might recommend, depending on genre
3 1/2 stars: Pretty good read. I also use this for books I read a long time ago that I know I at least liked but can't recall much about
4 stars: Really good writing, good story, highly recommend.
4 1/2 stars: Darn near perfect.
5 stars: Stunning. Gobsmacked me.
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Currently readingThe Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Life and Fate: A Novel by Vasily Grossman
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin