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I'm taking a break from trading for a while though I will honor the commitments I have already made.

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...I sat upon a promontory
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song...

—OBERON in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2.1.148-151)

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.: Currently Reading :.

El Príncipe de la niebla by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein
Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen

.: 2008 Author A-Z Challenge :.
(subject to change)

Adams, Douglas	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Bohjalian, Chris	Water Witches
Chabon, Michael	The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Dunn, Mark	Ella Minnow Pea
Epstein, Mark	Thoughts Without a Thinker
Frazier, Charles	Cold Mountain
Gowdy, Barbara	The White Bone
Hiaasen, Carl	Skinny Dip
Ihimaera, Witi	The Whale Rider
James, Henry	The Turn of the Screw
King, Stephen	The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Lewis, C. S.	Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
McEwan, Ian	Atonement
Naylor, Gloria	Bailey's Cafe
Orwell, George	1984
Pearson, Ridley	The Kingdom Keepers
Quick, Amanda	The River Knows
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan	The Yearling
Smith, Betty	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tan, Amy	The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Verne, Jules	A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Waters, Sarah	The Night Watch
X, Malcolm	The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Yoshimoto, Banana	Kitchen
Zafón, Carlos Ruiz	El príncipe de la niebla

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Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

—Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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.: Common Cover Reading Group List for 2008 :.
(subject to change)

January	The Pillars of the Earth (Parts 1, 2, 3)	Ken Follett
February	The Pillars of the Earth (Parts 4, 5, 6)	Ken Follett
March	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Truman Capote
April	The Russian Concubine	Kate Furnivall
May	Inkheart	Cornelia Funke
June	Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July	The Red Tent	Anita Diamant
August	Special Topics in Calamity Physics	Marisha Pessl
September	Land of a Hundred Wonders	Lesley Kagen
October	Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
November	The Dante Club	Matthew Pearl
December	Sugar Cookie Murder	Joanne Fluke

.: Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes :.
(that I'm participating in)

Recent Romance Bookbox #1
Light Romance Short Stories Bookbox
1001 Book Box
Bookmark Bookbox
Women Authors Bookbox
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Bookbox
Potluck Bookbox
African-American Literature Bookbox
Vamp-Themed Bookbox
This N' That Bookbox

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

—Dr. Carl Sagan

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.: My Favorite Authors :.

J.K. Rowling
Jasper Fforde
Christopher Moore
Douglas Adams
Michael Crichton

.: My Favorite Books :.

The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
The Nursery Crime series by Jasper Fforde
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Fluke by Christopher Moore
Jurassic Park and Timeline by Michael Crichton
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
and many others that I can't think of right now.

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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

—Dan Marino

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I'm a bookaholic, an avid reader, a writer-in-training and facilitator of a local writing group. I also enjoy crocheting and scrapbooking.

I have two daughters, ages 12 and 17, both avid readers themselves and both smarter than me. They prefer to read manga, sci-fi, and fantasy. I like magical realism. We're all geeks in my house.

I'm taking a break from trading for a while though I will honor the commitments I have already made.