*I no longer add people if I have not interacted with them on discussion posts or if they have not left a note, and if they seem to add me only to promote their book/publishing company.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"The proper study of mankind is books."
- Aldous Huxley
My nickname at school was "Nose-in-a-book." I devour books. I mainly enjoy fantasy/science fiction, but I'll read anything if it's interesting, and sometimes I'll read books that are not.
My TBR list on shelfari can be found at:
http://www.shelfari.com/laurasneverendinglist
I enjoy reading (obviously), writing, drawing, traveling, music, and learning languages. I like to ride my bike, play horrible tennis, attempt to run, and do pilates and yoga. Cooking and nutrition also also passions, although I'm usually lazy and eat far too many sandwhiches.
I'm a senior in college and am majoring in English with a Creative Writing option. I take far more classes than I should in an endeavour to graduate a year early. I currently spend 4 months a year in the UK, and plan on moving to Scotland in August when I marry my fiance. I plan to go into either publishing or technical writing until I can perhaps one day publish a book or two. I started writing more often in 2007, and already it has caused me to look at books in a completely different way and pick apart books to an ever greater extent.
Note: The books on my shelf are the ones I've read, but don't own many of them (I'm 20 and poor). The books on my reading list are ones I own but haven't read, and the books under I own are my textbooks and reference books.
Books I've read in 2009:
* denotes books/movies already read/watched
~=read/watched for school
January-
1. Innocents Abroad - Gene Wolfe - 304
2. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon - 418
3. Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist - 472
4. The Bald Soprano and other Plays - Eugene Ionesco - 160
5. The Toynbee Convector - Ray Bradbury - 225
6. The Book of Jhereg - Steven Brust - 353 (not completed, didn't read the 3rd installment)
=1,932
February-
7. Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood - 462
8. Coraline - Neil Gaiman - 162*
9. Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling - 112
10. Richard III - William Shakespeare - 81
11. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin - 704*
12. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future Vol XXIII - 529
13. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood - 376
14. The Long Walk - Richard Bachman/Stephen King - 224
=2,650
March-
15. African-American Sexuality - Ed. by Nicolas Baham - 610
16. Trash - Dorothy Allison - 219
17. The Tales of Neveryon - Samuel Delany - 264
18. Dhampir - Barb & J.C. Hendee - 376
19. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier - 428
20. Over to You - Roald Dahl - 158
21. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel - 241
22. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - 221
=2,517
April -
23. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood - 198
24. Interworld - Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves - 239
25. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond - 464
26. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin - 768*
27. Arroyo - Issue 1 - ed. by Eric Neurenfelt - 88*
28. Agni - Issue 1 - ed. by Steve Birkerts - 206
29. The Best American Poetry 2007 - ed. by David Lehman and Heather McHugh - 164
30. Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court - Robert Borgen - 336
=2,463
May -
31. A Cavern of Black Ice - J.V. Jones - 804
32. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman - 488
33. Modern Life - Mattea Harvey - 88
34. The Door - Margaret Atwood - 104
35. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem - 204
36. Twelfth Night - 104
37. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - 399
38. Publishing the Literary Magazine - Ann Edgerly Klaiman - 147
39. The Paris Review - Issue 170 - ed. by Brigid Hughes et al - 207
40. Lamb - Christopher Moore - 444
=2,989
June-
41. Extras - Scott Westerfeld - 417
=417
Extras (short stories, abandoned books)
=515
Totals:
Pages: 13,056
1001 Books to Read Before You Die: 6
Re-reads: 4
Books for school: 9
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