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About May 5th, 2008

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Finished
The Art of Alchemy by Ted Kosmatka
A Day With Air Traffic Controllers
Big Jeremy
Light in August (relay)

Reading
Blind Side
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Decades Challenge)
Sister Carrie (relay)
Havanna
The Sea Shack (Spring Reading Thing)
The Dive From Claussen's Pier (Ray)
Cannery Row (relay)

Starting Soon
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (In Their Shoes)
Castrato (relay)
San Francisco (Themed Challenge)
Measuring the World (Spring Reading Thing)
She Who Hears the Sun (relay)
Dreamland (Decades Challenge)

Books for Review/Raffle:
Open Brand
Go Green
Still Hot
Unholy Domain

F&SF June:
Fergus by Mary Patterson Thornburg
The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D. by Al Michaud
Character Flu by Robert Reed
Monkey See... by P. E. Cunningham
Litany by Rand B. Lee












Current Location: Hayward, CA 94541
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Where You End (Moby)

Worst Job Ever 03:27 pm
Ten years ago was my first day on the job as a health insurance coordinator / safety officer at an iron works in Los Angeles. It was a shitty job with crap pay, no training and I had coworkers who called me names in Russian. I didn't last a year.
Current Location: Culver City, CA
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Blue Paper (Moby)
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The 2008 LibraryThing meme 07:53 pm

I am not a LibraryThing member but I like going through their 106 "unread" list once a year. So these are the current most marked "unread" at the site.

bold are read italic are TBR and links go to the reviews I've posted.

  1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  2. Anna Karenina
  3. Crime and Punishment
  4. Catch-22
  5. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  6. Wuthering Heights
  7. The Silmarillion
  8. Life of Pi: a novel
  9. The Name of the Rose
  10. Don Quixote
  11. Moby Dick
  12. Ulysses
  13. Madame Bovary
  14. The Odyssey
  15. Pride and Prejudice
  16. Jane Eyre
  17. The Tale of Two Cities
  18. The Brothers Karamazov
  19. Guns, Germs, and Steel
  20. War and Peace
  21. Vanity Fair
  22. The Time Traveler’s Wife
  23. The Iliad
  24. Emma
  25. The Blind Assassin
  26. The Kite Runner
  27. Mrs. Dalloway
  28. Great Expectations
  29. American Gods
  30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  31. Atlas Shrugged
  32. Reading Lolita in Tehran
  33. Memoirs of a Geisha
  34. Middlesex
  35. Quicksilver
  36. Wicked
  37. The Canterbury Tales
  38. The Historian
  39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  40. Love in the Time of Cholera
  41. Brave New World
  42. The Fountainhead
  43. Foucault’s Pendulum
  44. Middlemarch
  45. Frankenstein
  46. The Count of Monte Cristo
  47. Dracula
  48. A Clockwork Orange
  49. Anansi Boys
  50. The Once and Future King
  51. The Grapes of Wrath
  52. The Poisonwood Bible
  53. Angels & Demons
  54. 1984
  55. The Inferno
  56. The Satanic Verses
  57. Sense and Sensibility
  58. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  59. Mansfield Park
  60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  61. To the Lighthouse
  62. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  63. Oliver Twist
  64. Gulliver’s Travels
  65. Les Misérables
  66. The Corrections
  67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  69. Dune
  70. The Prince
  71. The Sound and the Fury
  72. Angela’s Ashes
  73. The God of Small Things
  74. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
  75. Cryptonomicon
  76. Neverwhere
  77. A Confederacy of Dunces
  78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
  79. Dubliners
  80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  81. Beloved
  82. Slaughterhouse-Five
  83. The Scarlet Letter
  84. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  85. The Mists of Avalon
  86. Oryx and Crake
  87. Collapse
  88. Cloud Atlas
  89. The Confusion
  90. Lolita
  91. Persuasion
  92. Northanger Abbey
  93. The Catcher in the Rye
  94. On the Road
  95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  96. Freakonomics
  97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  98. The Aeneid
  99. Watership Down
  100. Gravity’s Rainbow
  101. The Hobbit
  102. In Cold Blood
  103. White Teeth
  104. Treasure Island
  105. David Copperfield
  106. The Three Musketeers

From this year's list I've read 59 of the books and I have 10 books that are TBR. Of the remainders most are ones I'm not currently interested in reading. That's not say I won't read them; circumstances might change.

Current Location: Hayward, CA 94541
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor (Mississippi John Hurt)
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