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***ATTENTION BookCrossers!****
Since I go to school away from home and can't take all my books with me, I am hosting A LOT of bookrings! Please, feel free to join them - they're still open. I am doing this so that my books don't stay stuck on my shelf at home all year long. Take a look at the list below - you might find something that you like :) (many of them are "1001 books") Thanks!****




Hey everyone,
I am an idealistic girl living on this planet Earth.
I am a student at Florida State University and I am double majoring in English Literature and International Affairs.
I enjoy reading, writing, theater, art and running among many other things.
I'm not sure what I plan to do after college, but I am considering teaching and journalism...
I am also considering joining the Peace Corps or Teach for America after undergrad.
I love to travel and I just want to help people in life and help make a more peaceful world.

I like many different kinds of books, especially classics (literature - whether they be modern or ancient), history, philosophy, and books on religion/spirituality.
Some of my all-time favorite books include: East of Eden, Crime and Punishment, The Little Prince, Cat's Cradle, Atlas Shrugged, Everything is Illuminated, and 1984.
Some of my favorite authors include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Kurt Vonnegut.
I keep an open mind when it comes to books, but I tend to dislike romance novels and mysteries. Also, please note that the books on my bookshelf do not always reflect my taste in literature.

I love to collect postcards and am a member of postcrossing. Check out www.postcrossing.com to see what its all about!

Currently reading: The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett; and On the Road by Jack Kerouac

My Wish List (thanks cliff1976!)


BOOKRAYS That I Have Started: Feel free to join, they are still open :)
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (LOST)
2. Siddhartha (LOST)
3. Trainspotting(1001 Book)
4. Sophie's World
5. The Cider House Rules(1001 Book)
6. The Hotel New Hampshire
7. House of Sand and Fog
8. Mystic River
9. The Shining(1001 Book)

BOOKRINGS That I Have Started: Feel free to join!
1. Gilead
2. Candide(1001 Book)
3. The Last of the Mohicans(1001 Book)
4. Reefer Madness
5. Dracula(1001 Book)
6. Age of Innocence(1001 Book)
7. A Passage to India(1001 Book)
8. War of the Worlds(1001 Book)
9. Peter Pan
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray(1001 Book)
11. Jane Eyre(1001 Book)
12. Me Talk Pretty One Day
13. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
14. The Old Man and the Sea(1001 book)
15. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk



My First "Anything Goes" Bookbox - (US ONLY)
1. Ctychic - NJ
2. kaila-ann - SC
3. LaveggioCoffee - NY
4. jaenelle - KS
5. supertalya - APO
6. batty14 - NY
7. Tribefan - OH

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There is NO way to Peace, PEACE IS THE WAY!!!!!
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The A-Z Book Challenge (2008):

A- Atlas Shrugged - (by Ayn Rand)
B- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - (by Milan Kundera)
C-
D- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - (by Jean-Dominique Bauby)
E- East of Eden - (by John Steinbeck)
F- The Four Agreements - (by Don Miguel Ruiz)
G-
H-
I-
J-
K-
L- Life of Pi - (by Yann Martel)
M- The Motorcycle Diaries - (by Che Guevara)
N- Nine Stories - (by J. D. Salinger)
O-
P- The Picture of Dorian Gray - (by Oscar Wilde)
Q-
R- Reefer Madness - (by Eric Schlosser)
S-
T- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - (by Carlos Castaneda)
U-
V-
W- Walden - (by Henry David Thoreau)
X-
Y-
Z- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - (by Shunryu Suzuki)

Books Read in 2008:

January:
(Atlas Shrugged)

February:
(Atlas Shrugged)

March:
(Atlas Shrugged)
- The Four Agreements - (by Don Miguel Ruiz)

April:
(Atlas Shrugged)
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - (by Carlos Castaneda)

May:
- Atlas Shrugged - (by Ayn Rand)
- Walden - (by Henry David Thoreau)
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - (by Milan Kundera)

June:
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - (by Shunryu Suzuki)
- Life of Pi - (by Yann Martel)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - (by Jean-Dominique Bauby)
- Nine Stories - (by J. D. Salinger)

July:
- East of Eden - (by John Steinbeck)
- Reefer Madness - (by Eric Schlosser)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - (Oscar Wilde)

August:
- Aesops' Fables - (by Aesop)

September:
- The Motorcycle Diaries - (by Che Guevara)

October:


November:


December:

Bookrays/Rings that I am taking Part of:
1. The Things They Carried
2. Middlesex
3. When You are Engulfed in Flames
4. Pale Fire
5. A Medicine for Melancholy
6. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
7. In Cold Blood
8. Prodigal Summer
9. Tao of Pooh
10. Infidel
11. R is for Rocket
12. Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
13. Fury
14. Grimus
15. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
16. We
17. After the Quake
18. Persepolis 2
19. The Shipping News
20. The Color Purple
21. An Inconvenient Truth
22. Kafka on the Shore
23. White Teeth
24. Santitos
25. Love in the Time of Cholera
26. The Story of English
27. A Confederacy of Dunces
28. God is Not Great
29. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
30. Man's Search for Meaning
31. Interpreter of Maladies

COMPLETED Bookrings/Rays
1. Aesop's Fables - 8/26/08
2. The Motorcycle Diaries - 9/11/08



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