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may-eve

From Portland, Oregon USA
Age 57
Joined Saturday, September 6, 2003
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Extended Profile
Some things I love are knitting, reading (obviously!), coffee, music (esp. alt, women's, disco, classic rock), gardening (but I'm a very lazy gardener).

Favorite reading topics are spirituality, self-examination, current events/politics. I haven't read much fiction in the last few years, but am definitely ready to pick some up again. Favorite authors include Jeanette Winterson and Tom Robbins.

For the Race to a Million anniversary challenge, I registered many of the books in my permanent collection. Some of these I may part with later on, but many (particularly the spiritual and religious books) I could not bear to let go of...at least not permanently. If you are interested in something that is marked part of my permanent collection, email me, and perhaps we can work out a loan or I may start a bookring. Check the journal entries for book cover if the photo isn't available on the main bookshelf.

Sometimes I get lazy about updating my web page or responding to messages, but you will not be forgotten. Just be patient with me. :-)

lists updated 10/29/04

Currently reading:

Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by Robert W. Fuller
Creating True Peace : Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World by Thich Nhat Hanh (e-book)
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose (e-book)



Bookrings & bookrays:
All my rings and rays are open unless otherwise noted. Most recent first.

Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell (not yet started: taking names)
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister : A Novel by Gregory Maguire
Culture Jam : How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--and Why We Must by Kalle Lasn
Webs of Power: Notes from the global uprising by Starhawk
Dead due to missing book.

Note: Bookrings I'm involved in but didn't start are noted in the below lists. That's because I long ago quit keeping track of the bookrings I sign up for. When it's my turn, someone will let me know, and then it'll get in the to-be-read list. When I'm done, I'll move it to the recently read list. My to-be-read list now actually reflects the books, in order, on my table waiting to be read. Obviously, bookrings and rays come first.



To-be-read list:

Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
The Chicken Qabala of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford by Lon Milo DuQuette
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
The Lost Secrets of Prayer by Guy Finley
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women by Alexa Albert
No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth by Ken Wilber
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches by Charles Leland
Gods of Love and Ecstacy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus by Alain Danielou
Secret Science of Miracles, The by Max Freedom Long


Books read since January 1, 2004:

(most recent entries first)

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (bookring, courtesy of lauraloo29)
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (bookray, courtesy of Hawkette)
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (bookring, courtesy of cestmoi)
The Circle Within by Dianne Sylvan
Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss (bookring, courtesy of Lindlec)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Blessing: The art and the practice by David Spangler
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (bookring courtesy of Mom-of-one)
ChiRunning by Danny Dreyer
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore (bookring, courtesy of MarciNYC)
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (bookring, courtesy of trygvasson)
The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul by Sandra Maitri
Marathoning for Mortals by John Bingham
Mariette in Ecstacy by Ron Hansen
Understanding the Enneagram : The Practical Guide to Personality Types by Don Richard Riso
The Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide by David N. Daniels
The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck

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