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Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati
This Side of Paradise: A Scribner Classic
The Sea
Water for Elephants: A Novel
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
The Almost Moon
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle)
Boy's Life
Home to Stay: One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel
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Extended Profile
Reading as slowly as a snail crosses a wide, wide street, I always enjoy a well-told story. I don't have enough knowledge or training to dissect an author's ability but I know in my gut good writers from not-so-hot (for me).
As a speech therapist in the public schools, I took one summer not long ago to meander through David Copperfield (Dickens). As in, I started it the day school let out in June and finished it the day before the school year started up again in August. I couldn't have planned it if I tried. Perfect. After I finished it, as I did with The Grapes of Wrath (another classic I didn't read until my 30's), I kept it near my pillow for weeks. I developed an attachment to the characters and I had a hard time letting them go.
BookCrossing is, in a word, awesome. I remember hearing about it many years ago but never participated. My first find was left on the sidewalk in front of an Albuquerque diner, a southwestern city I lived in for a couple of years.
I look forward to meeting other BookCrossers in the East Bay or anywhere!
(I publish a little zine called TOIL. I hope to have issue number 4 out this autumn, '10. I'm just sayin'.)
As a speech therapist in the public schools, I took one summer not long ago to meander through David Copperfield (Dickens). As in, I started it the day school let out in June and finished it the day before the school year started up again in August. I couldn't have planned it if I tried. Perfect. After I finished it, as I did with The Grapes of Wrath (another classic I didn't read until my 30's), I kept it near my pillow for weeks. I developed an attachment to the characters and I had a hard time letting them go.
BookCrossing is, in a word, awesome. I remember hearing about it many years ago but never participated. My first find was left on the sidewalk in front of an Albuquerque diner, a southwestern city I lived in for a couple of years.
I look forward to meeting other BookCrossers in the East Bay or anywhere!
(I publish a little zine called TOIL. I hope to have issue number 4 out this autumn, '10. I'm just sayin'.)
