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Wow, I'm impressed! You were pretty busy! :) I'm in a really long hold queue at the library (300+, lol) for Three Cups of Tea -- what did you think of it?

It was 8 stories, mostly completely independent but the last 2 or 3 tied together. Don't know if you've read other things by Lahiri, but they're very similar -- stories of 2nd or 3rd generation American immigrant families with Bengali roots (India). Stories about complex relationships between...

I was pleasantly surprised by it. Sue Miller was unknown to me before then and I felt the need to go look up other books by her after I read it. I can't remember exactly what I might have rated it but I do remember liking it more than I expected to.

There's the Senator's Wife, by Sue Miller -- read that last fall :)

From the library... The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman Sing Them Home - Stephanie Kallos The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb A Country Called Home - Kim Barnes

While I Was Gone - Sue Miller - 3/4 You Remind Me of Me - Dan Chaon - 3/4 Little Children - Tom Perrotta - 3 I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb - 5 Midwives - Chris Bohjalian - 4 Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri - 4 The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer - 4 The Cellist of...

My fourth-grade teacher read "The Long Winter" to us, and somehow inserted her commentary wherever it made sense. When Laura tells her mom that she doesn't want the last biscuit because she's not hungry, even though she hasn't had anything to eat all day, my teacher told us "That's a sign of...

Reading preferences vary in my family somewhat, but more by personality than age. My mom seeks out best-selling mysteries and thrillers a la Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman, Patricia Cornwell, Robin Cook, etc. My dad reads similar things, but I think he also really likes Dick Francis...

I'm in remote northern Wisconsin on my parents' farm, mourning the sudden death of my father and trying to take on too many responsibilities in his wake.

Is that where you were born?

Welcome :)

Does anyone remember Media Play? We used to have that chain up in the Niagara Falls, NY area. It was essentially a book/ CD/ movie store. When I was a kid, they had a good selection of books, but they gradually reduced their book selection to the absolute bare minimum in favor of increasing its...

I just wondered because I know plenty of Americans who have threatened to move to Canada, but none that had actually done it ;)

What made you move to Canada? I grew up by the Canadian border in NY :)

Haha sounds good to me. I tend to stay away from Virginia unless I have a good reason to cross that line, though, lol. :)

No kidding, that's awesome. I've only lived here since last June, but I love it :)

Thanks! :)

Rockville, just north of DC. Know people there? :)

When I was in college (and graduate school, too), I spent so much time reading textbooks and articles from psychology journals that reading literature became a luxury that I didn't have the mental energy for. I'm absolutely a bookworm and have done nothing but read since I defended my master's...

I can't remember the last time I bought more than 3 at once, but then again, I've only just recently finished up my degrees so I haven't had much wiggle room financially for a while. Now that I have a real paycheck, maybe I'll start buying books more :)