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Name:	Megan S.
Location:	GLOUCESTER, MA
Age:	28
Member Since:	4/17/2007 10:55 PM ET

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I am forever searching for my next favorite book, Dunkin Donuts coffee-addict, husky-loving, sleep-in//stay-up-late kind of girl, easily brought to laughter and distraction, a people-watcher, a book hoarder, and a penny-pincher, which brings me here to PBS. I have way too many books on my shelf already, but that hasn't stopped me yet.

I love a book that makes me think, and one that is memorable; not really into the typical "chick lit" genre, although I have been surprised by that one book in a million. My favorites are usually memoirs or books that read so much like memoirs that you forget they're fiction. I am by nature a nosy person. I love the way my worldview broadens with each book i read about someone else's life. Probably the only books i can not read are those that deal with child abuse or trauma.

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books read in 2008

For 2008, books i have read:::::::::::::::::::::::

The Abortionist's Daughter:: Elizabeth Hyde (OK)

The Birth House::: Ami McKay (good)

Love in the Asylum:::Lisa Carey (really good)

The Barracks:::John McGahern (short, sad, ok)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress:::Dai Sijie (i think the hype ruined my impression)

As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me:::Nanci Kincaid (OK, a bit odd)

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (sad, shocking good read)

Amy and Isabelle:::Elizabeth Strout (OK)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower:::Stephen Chbosky (really good)

The Firefly Cloak:::Sheri Reynolds (really good)

Julie Orringer:::How to Breathe Underwater: Stories (really good, keeping it)

The Bookseller of Kabul:::Asne Seierstad (honest, good)

Astrid and Veronika:::Linda Olsson (OK)

An Autobiography of A Face:::Lucy Grealy (sad, memoir, good)

Unafraid of the Dark:::Rosemary Bray ( memoir, a little slow at the end, good)

Zoology::Ben Dolnick (really good)

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits:::Ayelet Waldman (good)

The Secret River::Kate Grenville (good)

Sleep Toward Heaven:::Amanda Eyre Ward (good)

The Book of Bright Ideas:::Sandra Kring (good)

Just in Case:::Meg Rosoff (a bit odd, but good)

Looking For Alaska:::John Green (SO good!)

Falling Through the Earth:::Danielle Trussoni (loved this memoir)

Love in the Present Tense:::Catherine Ryan Hyde (slow but okay)

Digging to America:::Anne Tyler (couldn't get through it)

Atonement:::Ian McEwan (good...I want to see the movie now)

The Hummingbird's Daughter:::Luis Alberto Urrea (keeping it!)

My Sister's Keeper:::Jodi Piccoult (wow, i am really impressed)

More Than You Know:::Beth Gutcheon (okay)

The Last of Her Kind:::Sigrid Nunez (would have liked this more if it hadn't been so drawn out)

Push Not the River:::James Conroyd Martin (predictable, i liked the history bit)

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia::::Pamela Spiro Wagner, Carolyn Spiro (interesting memoir)

The Last Summer (of You and Me):::Ann Brashares (okay, predictable)

Charity Girl::: Michael Lowenthal (liked this one a lot)

The Mistress's Daughter:::A.M. Homes (left me bored, slow memoir)

Secret Girl:::Molly Bruce Jacobs (good memoir)

Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven:::Susan Richards Shreve (interesting memoir, not as good as i thought it would be)

All the Finest Girls:::Alexandra Styron (couldn't get through it)

My Lobotomy:::Howard Dully

Flower Children:::Maxine Swann

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