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Toxicgrin

From Tustin, California USA
Age 55
Joined Thursday, March 29, 2007
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4 weeks all time
books registered 0 109
released in the wild 0 37
controlled releases 0 38
releases caught 0 6
controlled releases caught 0 0
books found 0 16
tell-a-friend referrals 0 83
new member referrals 0 7
forum posts 0 11
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Since I was a child I've loved books. Actually, I think I was attracted to them by smell before I learned to read! in fact, the first thing I do with a new book is crack it open and smell the ink and paper - the older the book, the better. Strange? : )

I love to read and my interest in reading material is varied. There are always two stacks of books by my bed and a list of new purchases waiting to be fulfilled.

I can't read as much as I'd like since I spend most of my time reading student essays, but I try to squeeze in as much as I can!

Books read in 2007:


1. The Burning Time by Robin Morgan


2. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx


3. The Boleyn Inheretance by Philippa Gregory


4. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson


5. Weird California by Bishop, Oesterle and Marinacci


6. Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund


7. We Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. Norman


8. This Spectred Isle: A Journey Through Haunted England by photographer Simon Marsden


9. The Freedom Writers Diary with Erin Gruwell


10. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee


11. The New Revelatons: A Conversation with God by Neale Donald Walsch


12. Katherine by Anya Seton


13. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time by Jeff Davidson


14. The Way of the Wolf by E.E. Knight


15. Marley and Me by John Grogan


16. How to Handle the Paper Load by the National Council of Teachers of English


17. Bag of Bones by Stephen King


18. Papers, Papers, Papers: An English Teacher's Survival Guide by Carol Jago


19. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier


20. The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer


21.The Untouchables by Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley


22. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards


23. Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau


24. Alternatives to Grading Student Writing edited by Stephen Tchudi


25. The Road by Cormac McCarthy


26. The Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Hahn Beer


27. A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller edited by Gunther Stuhlmann


28. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne


29. In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels by Marc Almond


30. The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell, pictures by Maurice Sendak


31. The Quilter’s Legacy by Jennifer Chiaverini


32. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini


33. Wicked: The Life and Ties of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire


34. The Fourth Hand by John Irving


35. Oedipus Road by Tom Dodge


36. Brick Lane by Monica Ali


37. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach


38. The Giver by Lois Lowry


39. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides


40. Deception Point by Dan Brown


41. Winning by Losing by Jillian Michaels


42. Bridal Bargains by Denise and Alan Fields


43. Wedding Vows and Traditions by Carley Roney


44. Simple, Stunning Weddings by Karen Bussen







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You're Mother Night!

by Kurt Vonnegut

Nobody knows what to believe about you, and you know least of all. You
spent most of your time convinced that the ends justify the means, but your means were,
well, downright mean! And the end is nigh. Meanwhile all you want is to travel back in
time, if not to change, then to just delight in the way it used to be. You are who you
pretend to be. Oh yes, you're the great pretender.



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