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ItzPeggy

From Sylmar, California USA
Age 79
Joined Tuesday, July 8, 2003
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Booklover in Southern California

I've been reading since I can remember - I keep a book by my bed, another in the car, one in my office, one in my always-ready suitcase, and I've got a whole office full of books.

My favorite is good fiction; a great story will hold me forever. I also enjoy non-fiction, particularly about history or current events or a person's very interesting life if it's not a rant and rave therapy session. Recent reads have included: Debra Dickerson's biography, Robert Kaplow's forthcoming fictional work about a week in 1937 spent with Orson Welles, My Cat Spit McGee by the same guy who wrote My Dog Spot which made its way to the silver screen, and Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, a Lake Woebegon-ish look at being a firefighter/EMT in a small town in Wisconsin. GREAT writing!

I am retired from a 30-year career as a specialty technical bookseller, also; although I don't read a lot of what I sell, since my audience is so specialized and the material often not something I need to know. I do read a lot of the fiction and historical books that I sell.

My "dream read" scenario is: stretched out on the couch, with my sweetie stretched out on the other end of the couch, and our legs are interwoven in the middle somewhere, we're each engrossed in our own books, sometimes sharing selected passages, or we're each reading the same book, back and forth to each other in alternating chapters - :-)

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