Membro: fannyprice
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Sobre mimAbout Me
I read and write about the Middle East for a living and, though I love what I do, I work too much and am trying to develop some hobbies that don't use exactly the same muscles (literally and figuratively) as my job. I want to be a better gardner and a more creative cook; I like making cocktail bitters. I embrace my cat-lady-ness & am the proud parent of four little scamps who think books make great sleeping spots and chewing material.
I'm a bit of a dilettante - I love to learn new things and every book I read spurs in me the desire to read a whole different subset of (possibly unrelated) books. I'm a religious reader of good articles online & enjoy a good history podcast during my daily commute.
And yes, I do love Mansfield Park. I first read it at a time when Fanny's refusal to compromise her morals and just "be cool" really resonated with me. Subsequent reads and critical analysis of the book have complicated the identification, but the name sticks.
Sobre a minha bibliotecaMy Library
After years of reading primarily non-fiction, I now read a lot of detective novels & domestic suspense for distraction when my brain is fried -- they all tend to run together after a while. While I don't tend to track strictly work-related reading here, you'll probably see some books on the Middle East, sectarian violence, and other uplifting topics.
I spent my adolescence as an aspiring Kremlinologist. Other random obsessions include language and linguistics, polar exploration, WW1, social histories, dystopias/speculative fiction, and England. I collect children's books and am especially fond of the New York Review of Books Children's Collection.
Many of my books are now ebooks. I generally don't worry about entering the proper data to reflect that, though I do use the Collections function to note ebooks.
My Ratings & Reviews
My rating system is fairly inconsistent. My feelings about books are very much tied up in how I was feeling when I read them, why I was reading them at the time, what I expected vs. what I got, etc. I hate giving up on a book that is "ok". The ending of a book can make or break my entire experience and disproportionately affect the rating.
I used to review a lot, but work intervened. In 2018, I'd like be better about at least jotting down a few thoughts to aid my memory. The nature of my reviews varies widely based on what I wrote the review for – books read in grad school get a very different treatment than books read now, since I’m reading for fun rather than for critical analysis.
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From 2007 through 2014, I was mostly good about tracking my reading and reflecting on it in the Club Read Group for each year. Since 2014, I've relied on the "Collections" function and haven't had a thread or been a group participant in any meaningful way.
Past Years' Reading
2017: here
2016: here
2015: here
2014: here
2013 - the lost year, no thread!
2012: here
2011: here
2010: here
2009: here and here;
2008: here;
2007: here and here
Grupos18th-19th Century Britain, Anglophiles, Club Read 2009, Club Read 2010, Club Read 2011, Club Read 2012, Club Read 2014, Club Read 2015, Club Read 2018, Dystopian novels —mostrar todos os grupos, Fans of Russian authors, I Love Jane Austen, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, In Translation, Lest We Forget, Loitering with Intent, Maps and Atlases, Middle Eastern Literature, North and South Poles, Reading Globally, Reading Globally II, Virago Modern Classics, World War One History
Autores favoritosMegan Abbott, Louisa May Alcott, Rachid al-Daif, Jane Austen, Esther Averill, Hoda Barakat, Dan Chaon, David Crystal, Keith Donohue, Helen Dunmore, Barbara Ehrenreich, Anne Fadiman, Tana French, Edward Gorey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Patricia Highsmith, Russell Hoban, Albert Hourani, Kazuo Ishiguro, Shirley Jackson, Ghassan Kanafani, Stephen Kinzer, Arnold Lobel, Naguib Mahfouz, Daphne du Maurier, Patrick McDonnell, John McWhorter, Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Ijeoma Oluo, J. D. Salinger, José Saramago, Marjane Satrapi, Joann Sfar, Elaine Showalter, Lemony Snicket, Donna Tartt, Charles Todd, H. G. Wells, Scott Westerfeld, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jacqueline Winspear (Favoritos partilhados)
Locais de eventosFavoritos
Livrarias favoritasCarleton College - Bookstore, Daedalus Books & Music - Columbia, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, Seminary Co-op Bookstore
Bibliotecas favoritasArlington Central Library (Arlington Public Library), Carleton College - Gould Library, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, Silver Spring Library - Montgomery County Public Libraries (MD), University of Chicago - Joseph Regenstein Library
Listas favoritasFavorite Childhood Books
AdesãoER. Primeiros Críticos LibraryThing/Ofertas de Membros
LocalizaçãoWashington, DC
Tipo de contapública
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Membro desdeMay 23, 2007
Em leituraHigh Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 por Joyce Carol Oates
The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon por Bassel Salloukh
Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution por Are Knudsen
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir por Riad Sattouf
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution por Peter Ackroyd
Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East) por Rola El-Husseini
The Plant Lover's Guide to Ferns (The Plant Lover’s Guides) por Sue Olsen
Flower Color Guide por Darroch Putnam
The Red Flag: A History of Communism por David Priestland
International Change and the Stability of Multiethnic States: Yugoslavia, Lebanon, and Crises of Governance por Badredine Arfi
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America por Ijeoma Oluo
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