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Groepen18th-19th Century Britain, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Battlestar Galactica, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Board Room, Cats, books, life is good., Club Read 2009, Club Read 2010, Dystopian novels, Fans of Russian authors —toon alle groepen, 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

Favoriete schrijversLouisa 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 (Gemeenschappelijke favorieten)

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

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

Over mijzelfAbout Me

I have a rich fake-life on the interwebs as parallel universe versions of Austen's least-favorite heroine. I'm fannyprice at LT and F.P. Crawford at Belletrista.com, avaland's fantastic web magazine celebrating women's literature from around the world, where I am a sometimes reviewer.



I'm a bit of a dilettante - I love to learn new things and every book I read spurs in me the desire to read a whole different subset of (possibly unrelated) books. Consequently, it takes me a while to get deeply read in to anything, if such a thing happens at all. This also makes it impossible for me to stick to even the most hazily defined reading plan. Oddly, I also love to plan and make lists, which means I've got more unfulfilled reading commitments than I like to acknowledge and entire shelves of books I haven't read. I spend way too much time reading book reviewers and book blogs, which only exacerbates the problem. In short, if I say that my next read is X, count on it not to be.

Follow My 2010 Reading at Club Read 2010 here

I read and write for a living, so sometimes I need a break from it all. That break usually involves video games - yes, I'm a total geek - that suck away entire weeks of my life. Any prolonged absences not attributable to major international incidents can probably be explained thusly. I am a slave to my felines, who can be seen below.

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. I spent my adolescence as an aspiring Kremlinologist, so I've got a special interest in history and literature from Russia and the former Eastern bloc countries.

Other areas of particular fascination for me include Antarctica, the Arctic, and other frozen-a$$ places; WW1; social and cultural histories, including the occasional commodity or micro-history; dystopias/speculative fiction/smart sci-fi; and most things somehow concerning England. I really love short fiction/essays and I collect and read children's books even though I'm not fond of kids.

Mah kittehs, let me show you them:

Over mijn boekenMy 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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Past Years' Reading

2009: here and here; 2008: here; 2007: here and here

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Ook opCatster, Catster, Catster

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WoonplaatsArlington, VA

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Lid sindsMay 23, 2007

Aan het lezenThe Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge Companions to Literature) door Edward Copeland
The Celestial Omnibus (Signature) door E.M. Forster
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project) door Andrew Bacevich
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 door Joyce Carol Oates
Small Kingdoms door Anastasia Hobbet
The Rough Guide to Shakespeare 2 (Rough Guide Reference) door Andrew Dickson
Papa Sartre: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature) door Ali Bader
Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic door George James Grinnell
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