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GroepenAll Things New England, Anglophiles, Atwoodians, Board Room, Clarissa's Cottage, Club Read 2010, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Dystopian novels, Fans of Russian authors, Feminist SF —toon alle groepen, Feminist Theory, Girlybooks, I Lock My Door Upon Myself: Fans of Joyce Carol Oates, In Translation, Mainers, Needlearts, Reading Globally, Science Fiction Fans, The Prizes, The Red Room, Workspace B

Favoriete schrijversChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Louisa May Alcott, Patricia Anthony, Margaret Atwood, Trezza Azzopardi, Anita Rau Badami, Juliana Baggott, Elizabeth Bishop, Martin Booth, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Suzy McKee Charnas, Nancy F. Cott, A. J. Cronin, John Crowley, Emily Dickinson, Assia Djebar, Thomas Dublin, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, George Eliot, Nawal El-Saadawi, Buchi Emecheta, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Gaskell, Amitav Ghosh, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lisa Goldstein, Kate Grenville, Ursula K. Le Guin, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Elizabeth Hand, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, David Herter, Reginald Hill, Nalo Hopkinson, Arnaldur Indriðason, Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Gail Jones, Graham Joyce, James Patrick Kelly, Margo Lanagan, Margot Livesey, Amy Lowell, Ian R. MacLeod, Henning Mankell, Maureen F. McHugh, China Mieville, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Beth Norton, Joyce Carol Oates, Yôko Ogawa, Sharon Olds, Boris Pasternak, Viktor Pelevin, Ian Rankin, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, Mary Doria Russell, Robert Shearman, Elaine Showalter, May Swenson, Deborah Tannen, Sheri S. Tepper, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Jeff VanderMeer, Kate Douglas Wiggin, William Carlos Williams (Gemeenschappelijke favorieten)

LievelingsboekhandelsOld Number Six Book Depot, Toadstool Bookshop - Milford

LievelingsbibliothekenJ. V. Fletcher Library

Over mijzelfMiddle-aged, married mother of three grown children. Former bookseller & journalist, published poet (nothing recent). Founder of Belletrista.com: an online, nonprofit web zine which celebrates women authors from around the world. See LT user "Belletrista."

Creator of the following live* LT Groups:

Reading Globally
Club Read
Atwoodians
I Lock My Door Upon Myself: Fans of Joyce Carol Oates
All Things New England
3 private groups

*not meant to suggest activity level, but meaning "not defunct/deleted."

CURRENT PICTURE: "Native Flowers" (1949), Margaret Preston, Australia.

MY READING: I enjoy ALL kinds of fiction, both international and domestic. I also enjoy poetry (contemporary and classic), women's studies, social history, New England history, art history, literary criticism, a smattering of science, nature and whatever else intrigues me at the moment. MY 2010 BOOKLOG is HERE.

NOW READING



The Wilding by Maria McCann

LAST READ



Dark Places by Kate Grenville
The Beggar by Naguib Mahfouz (novella, 1965, Egyptian author)
The Beacon by Susan Hill (novella, 2008, UK author)
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates (novella, 1977)
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey (novella, UK authors, 1932)
"The Corn Maiden" by Joyce Carol Oates included in Transgressions: Volume 4 edited by Ed McBain (novella, 2006)
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahami (novella, Afghan author)
Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (poetry, US, 2009)
The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind (novella, German author, 1987, T 1988)
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter (nonfiction, 2010)
The Rainforest by Alice Steimberg (novella, Argentine author, 2000, T 2006))
The New Uncanny: Stories of Unease, edited by Sarah Eyre (anthology, 2008)
A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi (novella, translated from the Dari, Afghan author, 2002, Translation 2006
Voices by Lucille Clifton (poetry, US, 2008)
Childwold by Joyce Carol Oates (1977, US)
Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill (mystery, UK)
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi, translated from the French 2009, Afghan author)
Dark Things by Novica Tadic (poetry, Serbian)
Flesh & Blood by Michael Crummey (short fiction, Canada, Newfoundland, 1998)
A Cure for All Diseases by Reginald Hill (mystery)
Everything in This Country Must: A Novella & 2 Stories by Colum McCann (short fiction, Irish, 2000)
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth (short fiction, US author, 1959)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (novel, Australian author, 2009)
Enchanted Night by Steven Millhauser (Novella, US author, 2000)
The House of Paper by Carlos María Domínguez (novella, Uruguay,translation 2004)
I Lock My Door Upon Myself by Joyce Carol Oates (novella, US, 1990)
Galore by Michael Crummey (novel, Newfoundland, Canada, 2009)
A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates (novel, US author, 2009/10)

MY BEST FICTION READS OF 2009* (in no particular order)

--Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates(2009)(novel, US author)
--American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell (2008)(short stories, US author)
--Winter Vault, Anne Michaels (2009)(novel, Canadian author)
--Tinkers, Paul Harding (2009)(novella, US author)
--Mysteries of Winterthurn, Joyce Carol Oates (1985)
--The Land of Green Plums, Herta Müller* (translation, 1998)(novel, Romanian author, 2009 Nobel winner).
--The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry, Assia Djebar (translation, 2006)(short stories, Algerian author).
--I'd Like, Amanda Michaelopoulou (translation, 2008)(short stories, Greek author)
--The City and The City, China Miéville (2009)(novel, UK author)
--The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translation, 2009)(novel, Japanese author)
--Jamilia, Chingiz Aitmatov (translation, 2008)(novella, Kyrgyz author)
--In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Muenuddin (connected stories, Pakistani-American author, 2009)
--Leaving Tangier, Tahar Ben Jelloun (novel, Moroccan author, 2009)
--The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood (1993)(novel, Canadian authors). A reread!

*I actually would recommend anything I read in 2009, depending on what you like, of course. MY 2009 BOOKLOG is HERE. My 2008 booklog is on the 75 Book Challenge group HERE, if you're interested

Over mijn boekenavaland2: 2nd account opened exactly one year after the first for mostly children's books, mine or my grown children's, and other odds and ends of theirs.
dukedom_enough: husband, scientist and reader extraordinaire. Our libraries are quite married physically, but are separate on LT with overlap. He has much more data entry to do.
anguissette1979; Reeshy Daughter's accounts which are perhaps incomplete and not terribly active.

MY RATINGS
My ratings average high because I rarely finish a book I don't like. I find it difficult to rate some kinds of books (i.e poetry, memoirs), so I don't. My ratings for books read decades ago are current (since I came on LT in '06) and in relationship to my reading now, so they may not be accurate. I may have thought the book a five back in the 70's but looking back now, it might score a three...know what I mean?

MY COMMENTS/REVIEWS
I prefer to call these comments or feedback, not reviews as I don't aim to produce critical reviews. I do aim to tell you, as if you are sitting across the table from me, what I thought about a book. Some of my older recommendations may have been originally sent as bookseller recommendations to Booksense (American Booksellers Association). And those are just that, recommendations.

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Lid sindsOct 3, 2006