This account chronicles virtually everything I have read and/or owned during my 27 years of life: kids' books, young adult titles, classics, modern literature, mainstream fiction, and grammar/style guides. I have been as complete as possible; however, I confess that there are several titles I have forgotten over the years. This account also...
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This account chronicles virtually everything I have read and/or owned during my 27 years of life: kids' books, young adult titles, classics, modern literature, mainstream fiction, and grammar/style guides. I have been as complete as possible; however, I confess that there are several titles I have forgotten over the years. This account also includes my husband's books, which are primarily psychology textbooks and guides.
My reading tastes are extremely diverse these days. I will explore just about any category, "heavy" or "light": classic literature, contemporary fiction, romance fiction, sociological studies, cultural studies, historical fiction (particularly about China and Japan), Appalachian trail memoirs, and satire/comedy. You will also see quite a few Sourcebooks titles (Inner Bitch, calendars, etc.) that I read and/or edited while employed as an editorial intern there.
Favorite authors: Julie Coulter Bellon (a close friend of mine), James Joyce, Thomas Wolfe, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Thomas Hardy, George Orwell, and Anita Shreve.
Top 10 favorite books:
1. "Look Homeward, Angel" - Thomas Wolfe
2. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" - James Joyce
3. "1984" - George Orwell
4. "Jude the Obscure" - Thomas Hardy
5. "Cults in Our Midst" - Margaret Thaler Singer
6. "Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Brontë
7. "A Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley
8. "Animal Farm" - George Orwell
9. "The Brothers Karamazov" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey" - Chuck Palahniuk
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