Alena

Alena

I love books! If one could live on books I'd live the richest life. Other than books I'm into history, sewing, home design, and my cat Marty.

I am constantly on a search for novels that do not end with love solving everyone's problems. Think about it, is there a book you've read recently where there is a happy ending but not because...more »
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  • member since Friday, January 25 2008

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  • joy00 d

    joy00 d says

    Hello My New Friend,
    How are you today?? I hope you are fine and in good health,
    i m Joy by name i just come aclose your profile this morning in this
    site www.shelfari.com and i became interest to come in contact with for a relationship
    my hobbies are hand bell barsket bell reading music etc, here is my private
    email joyzshinee@yahoo.com i will be waiting for your mail.
    thanks
    Joy with love

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Sara

    Sara says

    sorry my mistake. i just want to say that love is not the solution for all thing. : (

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Sara

    Sara says

    I think I do agree with your opinion, love does not the solution of all think. There are more than that in this world other than love and romance and stuff like that. Would you mind to be my friend cause i think we are in the same cup of tea : 0

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kate F

    Kate F says

    Dear Alena, someone who has Diana Wynne Jones, Barbara Kingsolver and Jane Yolen on their bookshelf is obviously a kindred spirit! I found you by your note on DWJ on 'YA Books that Adults Should Read' and thought you sounded like my kind of person. I'm a writer and a passionate reader - hope you will like to become friends! Kate Forsyth

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Courtney

    Courtney says

    Yeah I have seen it, I love it. Still haven't read most of Gaiman's stuff, though. Stardust was good, but I think it's a very different genre from American Gods and Neverwhere.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Courtney

    Courtney says

    Oh! And Coraline by Neil Gaiman is fantastic.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Courtney

    Courtney says

    Books I've read recently without a romantic interest... Riddles of Epsilon by Christine Morton-Shaw isn't bad. It's sort of reminiscent of Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle. I also enjoyed The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (though I think the sequel has romance) and City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau.
    You could also look into Patricia A. McKillip, because I don't think her books are very romantic, but I can't really remember... I liked Alphabet of Thorn by her.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Robert M

    Robert M says

    Transmetropolitan -- a comic now available in a series of graphic novels -- is cynical, bitter, hopeful, profoundly idealistic and full of the rage of someone watching the world. It is sad, beautiful, ugly, and ultimately, uplifting. And I'm pretty sure nobody falls in love... or if they do, it's not particularly romantic and it does not save the day.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )


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