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Name:	Brandy S.
Location:	LOS ANGELES, CA
Age:	31y
Member Since:	8/15/2007 11:20 AM ET

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Brandy had to say...

Hi everyone!

As if I don't have enough to do with work and school, I also try to read daily...usually before bed or all day on Saturday. I have way more books than I know what to do with, and even more that I want to read someday. I have been reading since I was a wee girl....there are pics of me slouched in a chair at 9 years old with a Nancy Drew book and a scowl....who dares bother me while I'm trying to read!!

I am also a bookcrosser, so all of my books have their 10 digit number written on the inside back cover. I don't slap a big 'ole sticker on them....I don't enjoyed defaced books as I'm sure many of you don't either. Please journal, and if you choose to keep the books...great, if not, let the next person in line know about bookcrossing!

BTW, I do have cats, and ones that enjoy helping me read a good book, so please don't accept if you are allergic.

Favorite authors? Joyce Carol Oates, hands down.

Margaret Atwood

Alice Hoffman

Elizabeth Berg

Erik Larson

Barbara Kingsolver

Wally Lamb

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My A-Z Challenge 2008

A Child Called It- David Pelzer- 1/3/08

Beauty Before Comfort- Allison Glock- 1/5/08 couldn’t finish past pg 47

                Bee Season- Myla Goldberg- 1/13/08

Cannery Row- John Steinbeck- 1/19/08

Death in Belmont- Sebastian Junger- 1/22/08

Empire Falls- Richard Russo-2/10/08

Freaky Green Eyes- JCO- 2/17/08

Green Angel- Alice Hoffman- 2/17/08

Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood- 2/23/08

Imperfect Lens- Annie Roiphe- 2/24/08 couldn’t finish past pg 32

                In Cold Blood- Truman Capote-2/29/2008

Joy School- Elizabeth Berg- 3/8/2008

Kitchen God’s Wife- Amy Tan- 3/24/2008

Last Time That They Met- Anita Shreve-couldn’t finish past pg 40 (second time I’ve tried)

                Life At These Speeds- Jeremy Jackson- couldn’t finish past pg 23

                                Letting Go of Anger-Ron and Pat Potter-Efron- 3/29/2008

Magical Thinking- Augusten Burroughs-3/30/2008

Next Man Up- John Feinstein- 4/7/2008 -couldn’t finish past page 80

                Nemesis- Rosamond Smith-4/13/2008

Object Lessons- Anna Quindlen- 4/15/2008- couldn’t finish past page 48

                The One Minute Teacher- Spencer Johnson- 4/16/2008

Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follett- 5/11/2008

Quentins- Maeve Binchy- couldn’t finish 5/14/2008

                Quiet Strength- Tony Dungy- 7/6/2008

Reading With Oprah- Kathleen Rooney- 7/8/2008

Saturday- Ian McEwan- couldn’t finish- 7/13/2008

Thunderstruck- Erik Larsen- couldn’t finish 8/30/2008

                The Tender Bar- JR Moehringer- 9/10/2008

Unholy Loves- JCO- 11/2/2008

Voyage Out- Virginia Woolf- 7/24/2008

Water Witches- Chris Bohjalian- couldn’t finish 9/17/2008

                The Wal-Mart Effect- Charles Fishman- 10/19/2008

XMiddlesex- Jefferey Eugenides- 8/7/2008

Year of Yes- Maria Headley -5/24/2008

Zoology- Ben Dolnick-8/11/2008

Ayn Rand- Anthem- 7/10/2008

Charles Fishman- The Wal-mart Effect- 10/24/2008

Elizabeth Gilbert- Eat, Pray, Love- 6/8/2008

If Women Ran the World, Sh*t Would Get Done- Shelly Rachanow 6/8/2008

Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- 5/24/2008

Malcolm Gladwell- Blink- 8/30/2008

Nancy Pearl- More Book Lust- 8/18/2008

Roger E Allen- Winnie the Pooh on Management- couldn’t finish past page 15

Sandra Cisneros- Woman Hollering Creek- 5/27/2008

William Stryon- Darkness Visible- 5/25/2008

The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein- 1/6/08

Writing Out Of The Darkness- 1/25/2008

Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir- Laurie Albanese- 1/30/2008

More Haunted Hoosier Trails- Wanda Lou Willis- 3/24/2008

A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers- 4/8/2008- couldn’t quite finish

A Light In The Attic- Shel Silverstein- 4/28/2008

Good Dog. Stay- Anna Quindlen- 5/7/2008

Manning- John Underwood- 6/21/2008

Heartburn- Nora Ephron- couldn’t finish past page 32

Renascence and Other Poems- Edna St.Vincent Millay- 8/11/2008

The May Queen- Andrea Richesin- 8/26/2008

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