sorry, this is a closed book hospital

on authorial ownership.

2009-03-05T03:04:36Z

i am so angry i could spit.

professor x and i have had some conflicts already, and i find half of what she says patently unreasonable, so i guess i shouldn't have been surprised that she'd find a way on the last day of class to make me so intensely angry. but i was! i actually was. i guess that's my fault.

she made a quick comment, as she was leaving, about the final drafts of our term papers. she said (a semi-paraphrase, as i cannot recall the precise wording), "i'm treating you as professionals, so i expect you to tell me why you don't take my suggestions. i noted that on your second drafts, i was making a lot of the same comments i made on your first drafts. so either take my suggestions or tell me why you aren't, one of the two."

i blinked. said, "um, how would you like us to tell you?" she said, "oh, you can just send me an email." and then she left.

uh. EXCUSE ME?

i own my writing. you own your writing. writing - academic, fannish, scribblings on the back of a napkin, new york times best seller - belongs to the author who penned it. it does not belong to her editors, her friends, her betas, her publishing house, her professors, her peer reviewers. it belongs to her, totally and completely and without exception. that's why we cite when we draw from a source, why we don't plagiarize, why we put an author's name on the cover of a novel.

we don't refrain from plagiarizing or infringing on copyright just because it's bad form and will have people yelling at us. we don't cite the works we used in our writing because we're trying to be nice or because we're trying to take the heat off of ourselves (that is, "don't blame me, she said it first!")

we do those things because to do otherwise is to steal, is to be intellectually fraudulent, is to break the careful agreement drawn between writers and readers. i, the writer, will give you, the reader, my work, but in return, you won't claim it as your own. you can criticize it, burn it, laud it as the best thing ever written, but you can never own it, because i own it. i made it. i thought it up, i put it on paper, i did the work.

it's mine.

in academia, we get the advice of professors to improve our writing. we can choose to take that advice or leave it, knowing that we might get a worse grade if we refuse. but that's our right, because we own our own minds.

we get the advice of peer reviewers, and we can choose to take it or leave it, knowing that a journal might refuse to publish our article. but that's our right, because we own our own minds. it's the same for editors (who might not publish our books or articles), our bosses (who might fire us). there are lots of good reasons to take the advice of people giving it, but there is no way to hold a gun to our heads and say, "you must do what i say."

we get the advice of beta readers because we want to improve, not so that we can give our writing away. we get advice and we think about it and talk about it and we argue about it, but in the end, a beta reader cannot blame an author who does not take her advice. she can believe that the work would have been better had her suggestions been followed, of course. she can tell the author that, straight out. but she cannot, cannot, cannot make the author do anything, because the author owns every word that she creates.

a beta might ask, "why didn't you change such-and-such as i suggested?" the author might reply any number of ways: "i didn't think it was in keeping with the character." "i didn't think it maintained the tone of the story." "i felt that the suggested grammatical changes made this section more difficult to understand."

she could also reply, "because i was partial to the way i wrote it. i liked the way it sounded and felt in my head and in my hands as i wrote it. i put part of myself into that sentence or paragraph and i could not give it up, even to make it easier to read." she needn't apologize. that's a perfectly acceptable answer. if this is ALWAYS the answer, of course, she may need to rethink the way she uses her beta, or why she has a beta, or whether she wants her work to be shown to the world if it is so precious to her.

but in the end, she can always respond, "thank you for your help. i really appreciate hearing what you have to say. but in the end, this is mine and i like it the way it is." because she owns it. because it's hers.

there is often talk about the reader's privilege. i think that's great. i think reader-response theories are fantastic. i think stanley fish's interpretive communities are fascinating. i think hermeneutics are the bee's knees. i stand by the fact that readers have enormous leeway to read a document as they see fit. if an author is unwilling to have this happen, then she should keep her writing locked away. publication and distribution give readers many interpretive rights.

but not ownership.

to ask a student to justify every suggestion not taken (or every author to justify every suggestion from a beta not taken) is to suggest that the professor (or the beta) has ownership of the text. is to suggest that the reader is so privileged that she can choose to obliterate the author's ownership of the text. is to assume that the answer to the question cannot be, "because it's mine and i own it and i don't want to change it."

and that, my friends, is unacceptable.

friday, i'm in... anxiety?

2009-02-28T01:22:57Z

some days i have a fine day, and then suddenly something little will completely destroy it. presentation review by one of my professors that was snide and unhelpful. no particular sentence was particularly rude, but since i know her, i know the tone, and now i want to cry.

i know these feelings, the ones that come right before anxiety makes me twitchy and useless. i get hot, my pulse and blood pressure rise, i get an acidy pain in my chest, my pupils dilate, my hands start to shake. it is awful, and then it gets worse and then it sticks around for hours, sometimes.

i wish i had tools for dealing with this. i'm trying really hard, but i feel like things are just getting worse. why should something so stupid so completel undo me? i don't know, but it does. and now i just don't want to cry in public.

the environment is your responsibility. yes, you.

2009-02-21T20:57:42Z

sometimes i notice that my friendslist is perhaps not as eco-focused as one might expect. maybe this is because we all avoid politics, or (even better) because it's just taken for granted.

but yeah, dudes. when it comes to the environment? we're fucked.

interesting environmental news: reid is hoping to get a climate change bill to the senate soon, and something signed into law this year. you may not quite understand how emissions trading works, or what global warming potential is, or why you might want to prefer a cap and trade program to a carbon tax (though, feel free to ask me if you'd actually like the answers to any of these questions), but you should definitely be interested and aware of global warming legislation getting out this year.

even if congress can't find its ass with two hands, it looks like the epa might finally act on the endangerment finding it was supposed to have dealt with under massachusetts v. epa two years ago. if it makes such a finding, it'll be obliged under the clean air act to regulate co2. and then things will get REALLY exciting.

reasons you should be watching fox's Lie to Me

2009-02-19T16:46:25Z

reasons you should be watching fox's Lie to Me:

1. it might get canceled! experience tells me that good shows get canceled. this is just history. right now, it's running about 9/12 in the ratings, and i think it needs to do better. it has american idol as a lead in (though it might be changing to lead in to american idol? i can't remember) and that can't hurt, but really!

2. it's got a cool concept! it's based off of real-life guy paul ekman, a psychologist who has been pioneering in emotions and their relationship to facial expressions. and you'll learn a lot about the facial action coding system! which is really cool. you can think about phrenology and wonder what the relationship is. OH. and they do cool clips of pictures of actual people doing the things they're talking about. IT WILL MAKE YOU THINK!

3. it's a procedural, which means it can hit your bones/csi/l&o/whatever kinks! THERE ARE MYSTERIES TO SOLVE, PEOPLE.

4. it's got cool people in it! AND THEY ARE ATTRACTIVE!

5. I HAVE INCLUDED CLIPS!

note: i am at work and cannot hear the sound. so if any of these SOUND weird, sorry!

6. there are hot women!

7. it's got snappy dialogue!

8. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!

the first four episodes are up for your viewing pleasure at hulu.

Writer's Block: Animal Instinct

2009-02-18T16:57:54Z

What creature would you choose as your spirit animal?

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this is a really stupid question. that's all.

why, hello there.

2009-02-04T14:44:19Z

you know what i wish? i wish that the blood tests i had yesterday would just say that i was hypothyroid. then i could explain everything wrong with me without having to take any personal responsibility for fixing them. oh, and laziness is a symptom of hypothyroidism, too, so i could even explain my lack of desire to fix anything. IT WOULD BE PERFECT. instead, i believe, i have neither thyroid problems nor anemia and my sleep is just fucked up because of anxiety and my anxiety is high because i'm depressed and i'm depressed because... well, i guess if i knew that, i wouldn't be depressed?

school is school. done in two more years, but some days that feels like forever. other days, like not long enough, and i wonder if a phd would make me more hireable? phd in sustainable development from columbia? in law and society from nyu? in government from the new school? maybe i should do something totally different and go to rabbinical school and spend my life writing on law, environment, and religious ethics? (the most interesting option by far.)

but for the moment, it is just this stuff. don't even have the interesting things other people do, working on their theses and dissertations and such. i am just doing problem sets and having tests and making presentations.

this week, i've learnt: how a heat pump works, how the electrical grid is monitored and managed in the US, how public benefits funds work, how to use excel to solve simple linear programs, what postmodernists think about conflicts of interest, how CERCLA was developed, and what the bali action plan says (it's boring, don't read it).

mayhaps i should have gotten a social science degree instead of this one? damn.

oh, and hey, i thought that teleflora commercial was funny. i am, apparently, an idiot.

two things.

2009-01-29T15:55:31Z

first: you should vote for what hubble looks at next!

second: saw dar williams last night at cat's cradle. cat's cradle was surprisingly underwhelming, considering its reputation, but dar sparkled, as always. especially awesome renditions of: mercy of the fallen, the babysitter's here, february (!! my life may now be complete), after all, and spring street. good times were had by all! lots of shouty fangirls, which was annoying, and a Person Who Danced Excessively and so embarrassingly for the people around her that they finally left. also, two people who may have thought they were making porn and not, y'know, at a concert.

editing help.

2009-01-22T14:51:38Z

so this is an odd question. i am editing an article for a journal i work on and need some grammatical advice. anybody around to help?

and randomly...

2009-01-15T14:09:19Z

a list of things:

1. i am sitting in the divinity library. i work here. it's a methodist school and there are a lot of methodists here, even though i still don't know exactly what that means. one of my coworkers is considering 'converting' (do you have to convert to move from one denomination to another?) to anglicanism and i told her that sounded like the really boring christianity.

2. the other day, i do believe i was the first jew anybody had ever met. i still find this shocking.

3. i'm in my second semester of my masters in environmental management and in my fourth semester of graduate school. i am taking one of the most spectacularly boring courseloads i could have imagined.

4. while i hate microsoft office 2007, i just got a set of three licenses for $75 and you really can't beat that.

5. i am in love with kate spencer and manhunter. also barbara gordon. i want to be a superhero and it really bums me out that this will (probably) never happen. probably for the best, i don't look great in tights.

6. current love: root beer. currently reading: understanding and responding to climate change from the national academy of science. big plans: bull mccabe's on saturday night, despite the cold.

7. current sadness: law firm rejection letters. boo.

(eta) 8. go do thelittlebang. no, seriously.

hmm.

2008-12-09T05:25:01Z

oh hi. i've been thinking about coming back here?

what do you think?

the not so big secret.

2007-09-03T16:50:43Z

so the not-so-well-kept secret is that law school sort of sucks. i mean, there are parts i really like. contracts class is actually genuinely fascinating, and we spent a whole day on the theory of promises, with no case law at all, which left many of my classmates totally irate. i, however, really liked it and immediately went out and ordered roberto unger's "critical legal theory." my torts class sometimes rises to the level of actual hilarity, even if i haven't learnt anything about torts. and civil procedure is perfect for me, with its obsessive attention to detail and obscure rule cross-referencing.

but the reading is slogging. i feel no compulsion to brief or take notes or do anything other than thake copious marginal notes. writing assignments are tedious. legal research is less exciting than it should be.

and i have no friends yet. which is the hardest part for me. so all my brain wants to do is get depressed and have me cry a lot and lay in bed and get sick so i can't eat. but of course i can't do that, because it's week three of four years of this stuff, and i've got to suck it up.

sometimes, i think of ljing about the stuff i do every day, the individual cases we talk about and such. but then i figure, if it's kind of boring to me, i'm sure it'd be REALLY boring to you.

far more exciting is that we now have TWO bunches of kittens. harry, hermione, draco, and ron are settled in beautifully. draco and ron are on their way to adoption, even though ron is literally brain damaged, poor thing.

in our bathroom, we have our new litter. they are shy and hissy and still a bit feral. i hope they will socialize well. their names are schroedinger, tesla, barton, and nightengale. the last three are all black and schroedinger's a black/brown/cream tabby.

if anybody wants pictures, we have a million. and nothing says YAY like pictures of kittens, right? if you live in the triangle and want to come socialize our kittens, come on over!

re-connected.

2007-08-19T04:18:19Z

FINALLY. our house has the internetz.

also, law school homework is really boring. nobody told me that?

i have the most hideously dull schedule ever. if there's something opposite of section 4 pride, i would like to assert it now. though after our big presentation about professionalism on the web, i guess i shouldn't say things like that.

correction: LAW SCHOOL IS AWESOME. I CAN'T WAIT TO DO MORE READING. IT IS THAT GOOD.

it's hot here, like it's hot everywhere.

2007-07-22T13:35:25Z

in case anybody was wondering, i successfully moved! well, at least, i made it to NC. we're staying at my parents' house for a couple of weeks...

but we also got a house! i signed my first lease and the place has a big backyard and a washer/dryer and won't make me pay extra for my cat. it's $750 a month and it's beautiful.

anyway. if anybody was curious, i'm fine!

thinking of wincest.

2007-07-13T15:16:19Z

yeah, i don't even watch SPN. but i'm just... i dunno, baffled. at the amount of wincest. what the hell is up with that, somebody who watches the show? 'cause, the thing is, no situation in the world could make me bang my sisters. why is their situation so special that all the societal norms and taboos are thrown out the window?

dancing feet and cervices.

2007-07-12T12:46:32Z

i have been thinking about so you think you can dance. i thought the dance with anya and danny was incredibly... well, i guess i'm just too delicate. but it was so... sexist? danny strutting around (danny being, it seems important to note, almost overly-obviously gay, as i see it) and anya throwing herself at him and being tossed away. and seriously, when he grabs her wrists they seem, well, it looks like he's hurting her or trying to. it was awful and made me really upset to watch. other than that, i liked the dances in this episode. i voted for sabra and dominic, though i considered voting for sara.

ALSO.

to all the people (including my doctor) who told me that the colposcopy wouldn't hurt:

you are all. fucking. LIARS.

i was literally crying. crying. the doctor laughed at me a little because i guess other people are calmer. i am still having cramps.

do any of you have something about your body that makes you physically... uncomfortable or sick just to think about? like, some people can't think about things touching their eyes or about things going in their ears. i cannot cannot cannot cannot stand the idea of anything touching my cervix. this may be one of the weirdest things ever, but there's nothing i can do to change it. so the fact that she wielded this long metal curette and scraped the inside of my cervix. this was one of the most painful and awful things that's ever happened to me, and i got a fuckin' TATTOO.

oh well. it's over and she said it looks okay; mild dysplasia probably. paps every 3-4 months. more cervix-touching: great.

wrapping things up.

2007-07-09T14:36:31Z

it's so sad to be leaving this place. i mean, i'm happy. law school will be awesome (hesychasm -- DO NOT TELL ME DIFFERENT, KAY?) and i love north carolina and i miss my family like crazy and i cannot WAIT to watch the baby (who is now 20lbs! the fuck?) grow up (by the time i graduate, he will be nearly 5. wtf?). but i will miss this place. i'm sure i'll write some kind of sadsap post in the next couple of days about it, but for now. just, yeah, sad.

yesterday was our moving sale. we sold a lot of bizarre things. it's good though -- a lot less stuff to figure out what to do with. still, a LOT of stuff and i'm going to be out with people a lot this week (saying goodbye and such) and. yeah. i feel bad leaving thenewhope with it, but she's pretty resilient and i'll find some way to make it up to her. or something.

wednesdazy, i'm going to my gyn for a colposcopy. i had an irregular papsmear. i am freaking out. FREAKING OUT. pretty much, i'm terrified that i have cervical cancer. hopefully, in reality, the worst that i have is some kind of cervical dysplasia. even if it's really bad dysplasia, the treatments are not the worst thing ever (electrocauterization, cryocauterization, laser vaporization...). i figure the worst that happens wednesday is they take a few swabs or, maybe, a cone biopsy. which, while kind of gross sounding, isn't terribly awful.

meh. just what i needed the week before i move.

thoughts on that race-in-fic meme.

2007-07-05T14:33:48Z

i have been thinking idly for weeks about the diversity in fic meme that was going around.

you remember, the one where you tell everybody how many of your pieces of fic feature a character of color, a character with a disability, etc. i really wanted to do it. but there were two things i think were missing from the meme, and they're two things i think are disingenous (at best) to disregard when it comes to a statistical endeavour like this one.

there is a huge, gaping, monstrous freaking divide between the two. i could think of many characters where the two are NOT the same and many, of course, where they are.

to me, a "character of color" is a character who would recognize him/herself as a member of a minority race considering the time/place/etc. of the story he/she has found him/herself in. i am not saying this because i am an uppity white person. i am saying this because i think there is a bigger issue at stake here.

how do we write/understand difference, be it racial, sexual, gender, ability, whatever? do we write CPPCs differently, regardless of whether or not they are minorities in their own societies? do we avoid writing about CPPCs even if they are not canonically part of any kind of marginalized racial group? do we assume that CPPCs are COCs, merely because of their skintone or the actor/actress's racial heritage? why? is this good or bad? is it dangerous? does it expose a kind of prejudice we might be loath to think about?

for example, we've been given no indication by the characters themselves that either ronon or teyla seems him/herself as a person of color (POC). sure, what we see of their society suggests that they might be, but we've not been told anything about it. and yes, other members of the atlantis crew might see them as POCs, but when writing from their point of view, is this the difference they might most obviously feel, or the difference of being from another human group? similarly, b'elanna torres is played, also, by a POC. but her major racial difficulty in life isn't the color of her skin, it's the fact that she's half human. this is a pretty big difference.

these characters almost certainly think about race and their racial status in a different way than, say, house's dr. foreman, west wing's charlie young, or the 4400's gary navarro, all of whom have made it clear (or have had others make it clear to them) that they are members of minority races and therefore COC.

(and all of those people may very well see things differently than 'characters' who are on reality shows or part of rpf fandoms. those other guys live in malleable fictional worlds. the real guys don't.)

though at least one ljer i read recently (sorry, person, for forgetting your name... i'm sure if i scoured metafandom, i'd find it, but i'm too lazy) asked that we actively search out fandoms that have characters of color we might like in order to cultivate a COC (or CPPC, though the OP didn't make a distinction) for our fannish activities (our otps, our ships, our squee, etc).

ETA: i was linked to the post in question at zvi_likes_tv's journal: The Quest for CoC. i have misrepresented what she was saying; she does not believe that we should go out and find NEW fandoms to replace the ones we actually enjoy, merely that we take a new approach to character appreciation and fannishness. (the only new viewing she suggests is that to increase your appreciation of the non-white form -- watching international movies, music channels, checking out internet sites, etc.) i have clearly misremembered what this post was about, and i apologize sincerely to zvi_likes_tv.

for me, this seems untenable. for me, fannishness is far more organic. when i force myself to watch things, read things, etc. for a particular purpose, i usually find myself feeling more resentful than fannish. i understand that this may mean i'm not doing my race-in-fandom due diligence. however, i'm just being reasonable.

what do we do about shows with no COCs or CPPCs? if we haven't sought out fandoms that include them, are we failing in our responsibilities? should the number of total characters vs. the number of COCs/CPPCs (etc.) be taken into account when doing our stats?

finally, and almost tangentially, i wonder what other characteristics of marginalization might be considered. should we consider characters of religious minorities? how about ostensibly white foreigners (like ziva david on NCIS)? how about members of marginalized economic groups? or marginalized age groups?

i'm just curious. i might still do the meme. but it got me thinking.

sometimes, the judges get it wrong.

2007-06-29T17:00:47Z

jessi and jesus?

WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?

kisses,
laura.

(by which i mean: given the options on last night's sytycd, lauren would SO have been out of there. no questions fucking ASKED. and i would've picked neil well before i picked jesus!

i really, really, really think they got this one wrong. and i don't usually feel that way.

fuckers.)

cheering myself up!

2007-06-28T19:24:31Z

so i thought i might be able to cheer myself up (i've been feeling sick and listless lately, and it's really dumb?) i thought i would share some good news:

i recently got taken off the waitlist at duke law. i deferred my matriculation to the nicholas school until fall '08, so as of august 13, i will be a first year law student.

which is yay!

(except for the bills. they are boo.)

i need a grad school icon.

stand up and be counted.

2007-05-31T00:30:44Z

1) if you missed the book list the first time, go back and see it here and claim anything you want.

2) if you're a fandomish person, go join fandom_counts! 10,000 members and counting. and if you happen to speak an obscure foreign language, you can help translate the mission statement! which, too bad i'm so monolingual. be counted.

giving away books.

2007-05-30T19:10:53Z

anybody who wants any of the following books, just reply with your name and address and the books you want. comments are screened. all i ask is that you reimburse me the shipping fees, which can be super easily done via paypal or check.

fiction

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams (H)
Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom (H)
The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander (P)
In the Name of Salome, Julia Alvarez (H)
Primary Colors, Anonymous (H)
The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel (P)
The Plains of Passage, Jean M. Auel (H)
The Mammoth Hunters, Jean M. Auel (P)
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster (H)
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen (P)
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (P)
Persuasion, Jane Austen (P)
~~Baby Bebop, Francesca Lia Block (P)~~ - to kimspieceofmind
~~Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block~~ - to kimspieceofmind
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (P)
Summer Sisters, Judy Blume (P)
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury (P)
One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury (H)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (P)
The Shape of Water, Andrea Camilleri (P)
When Rabbit Howls, Truddi Chase (P)
~~The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (P)~~ - to sexonastick
Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sook Nyul Choi (P)
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Kate Chopin
Messiah, Andrei Codrescu (P)
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad (P)
Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad (P)
Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad (P)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (P)
The Witches, Roald Dahl (P)
Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly (P)
~~The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (P)~~
Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue (P)
~~The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (P)~~ - to _wirehead_
Yoga for People who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer (P)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (P)
You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers(P)
Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
The Family Orchard, Nomi Eve (P)
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber (P)
Postcards from the Edge, Carrie Fisher (P)
~~The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (P)~~ - to _wirehead_
Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald (P)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (P)
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (P)
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (P)
As Earth Begins to End, Patricia Goedicke (P)
The Rest of Life, Mary Gordon (P)
The Passion of Alice, Stephanie Grant (H)
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory (P)
~~Slow River, Nicola Griffith (P)~~ - for tellitslant
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (P)
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr (P)
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (P)
~~Dune, Frank Herbert (P)~~ - to [Bad username: sexonastick"]
~~All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot (P)~~ - to sadisticferret
Washington Square, Henry James (P)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (P)
~~The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (P)~~ - to seftiri
~~The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (P)~~ - to sexonastick
The Princesse de Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
Circles of Stone, Joan Dahr Lambert (P)
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence (P)
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis (P)
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin, Richard Lourie (P)
Feather Crowns, Bobbie Ann Mason (P)
In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason (P)
Space, James Michener (P)
The Crucible, Arthur Miller (P)
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy (H)
~~Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien (H)~~ - to thenewhope's mom
~~In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien (P)~~ - to thenewhope's mom
~~The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (P)~~ - to thenewhope's mom
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (P)
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (P)
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk (P)
~~Women Prefer Women, Elula Perrin (P)~~ - to sadisticferret
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (P)
~~The Tin Princess, Philip Pullman (P)~~ - to _wirehead_
~~The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman~~ - to sexonastick
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand (P)
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand (P)
The Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand (P)
A Gracious Plenty, Shari Reynolds (H)
Entretien avec un vampire, Anne Rice (P)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins (P)
Charlotte Temple & Lucy Temple, Susanna Rowson (P)
Kissing in Manhattan, David Schickler (H)
Hamlet (P)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare vol 1(I think)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (P)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (P)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (P)
Amy & Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout (P)
Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred Taylor (P)
The Mistress, Philippe Tapon (P)
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (P)
~~The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (P)~~ - to seftiri
Goodbye, Vietnam, Gloria Whelan (P)
John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead (H)
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (P)
Our Town, Thornton Wilder (P)
The Man Who Loved Clowns, June Rae Wood (P)
~~A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf (P)~~ - to sangerin
~~Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto (P)~~ - to seftiri
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel (H, ex-library)
The Song of Roland (P)
~~Four Major Plays, Ibsen (P)~~ - to sexonastick
Earthmen & Strangers (P)

low-brow

First Among Equals, Jeffrey Archer (H)
Wish You Well, David Baldacci (H)
Act of War, Dale Brown (P)
Digital Fortress, Dan Brown (P)
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown (P)
Close Case, Alafair Burke
Patriot Games, Tom Clancy (P)
Vital Signs, Robin Cook (P)
Trace, Patricia Cornwell (P)
By the Shore, Galaxy Craze (H)
Rising Sun, Michael Crichton (P)
The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver (P)
Twisted, Jeffery Deaver (P)
Tongue in Chic, Christina Dodd (P)
Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich (P)
Death Dance, Linda Fairstein (P)
See Jane Run, Joy Fielding (P)
Isle of Palms, Dorothea Benton Frank (H)
The Third Victim, Lisa Gardner (P)
Vanish, Tess Gerritsen (P)
Symphony, Charles Grant (P)
~~The Blue Place, Nicola Griffith (H)~~ - for tellitslant
The Partner, John Grisham (H)
Malice Intended, Ron Handberg (P)
Le Silence des Agneaux, Thomas Harris
~~The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris (P)~~
Hannibal, Thomas Harris (P)
Red Dragon, Thomas Harris (P)
Dark Paradise, Tami Hoag (P)
Dark Horse, Tami Hoag (P)
Fatal Burn, Lisa Jackson (P)
Twice Kissed, Lisa Jackson (P)
Stalker, Faye Kellerman (H)
Justice, Faye Kellerman (H)
The Color of Death, Elizabeth Lowell (P)
Yesterday, Fern Michaels (H)
Fire Sale, Sara Paretsky (P)
Sea Change, Robert B. Parker (H)
Legal Tender, Lisa Scottoline (P)
Kill the Messenger, Tami Hoag (P)
Dirty Blonde, Lisa Scottoline (P)
Mistaken Identity, Lisa Scottoline (P)

The Ultimate Trek Trivia Challenge for the Next Generation
All Good Things... (Star Trek The Next Generation) (H)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (the first one)
~~The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers (P)~~ - to sangerin
The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers Vol. 2

Antibodies (XF), Kevin Anderson (P)
The Devil's Heart (Star Trek the Next Generation), Carmen Carter (P)
Imzadi (ST:TNG), Peter David (P)
Q Squared (ST:TNG), Peter David (P)
Reunion (ST:TNG), Michael Jan Friedman (P)
Possession (ST:TNG), J.M. Dillard and Kathleen O'Malley (P)
The Last Stand (Star Trek The Next Generation), Brad Ferguson (P)
Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All In a Row, Christopher Golden (P)
Ghost Roads (Buffy), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (P)
The Murdered Sun (Star Trek Voyager), Christie Golden (P)
Whirlwind (XF), Charles Grant (P)
Dragon's Honor (ST:TNG), Kij Johnson and Greg Cox (P)
Magic's Pawn (Book One of the Last Herald Mage), Mercedes Lackey (P)
Cybersong (ST:VOY), S.N. Lewitt (P)
Chains of Command (ST:TNG), W.A. McCay and E.L. Flood (P)
Imbalance (ST:TNG), V.E. Mitchell (P)
The Death of Princes (ST:TNG), John Peel (P)
Star Trek: Federation, Judith & Garfield Reeves Stevens (P)
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling (H)
Venus of Shadows, Pamela Sargent (P)
Pathways (Star Trek Voyager), Jeri Taylor (P)
Mosaic (Star Trek Voyager), Jeri Taylor (H)

Collected Poems, Emily Dickinson (H)
~~The Top 500 Poems ed. By William Harmon (H)~~ - to seftiri
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Black Series, Laurie Sheck (P)
Repair, c.k. williams (P)

New Orleans Review 30:2
Poems that Live Forever (H)

non-fiction

Hypatia's Heritage, Margaret Alic (P)
The Planet that Wasn't, Isaac Asimov (P)
~~Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (P)~~ - to seftiri
~~The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything, John Gribbin (P)~~ - to sadisticferret
Supersymmetry, Gordon Kane (H)
~~The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything, Richard Morris (P)~~ - to sadisticferret
~~Belief in God in an Age of Science, John Polkinghorne (P)~~ - to sadisticferret
The Biotech Century, Jeremy Rifkin (P)

In Our Defense, Elen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou (H)
~~Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown (P)~~ - to sexonastick
Way Out There in the Blue, Frances Fitzgerald (H)
Israel on the Road to Peace, Ziva Flamhaft (P)
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman (H)
The States Rights Debate Second Edition, Alpheus Thomas Mason (P)
American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68, Ernest R. May (P)
Memoir of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy (P)
Where There's Hope: There's Love and Laughter, Hope Mihalap (P)
~~Eva Peron: A Biography, by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz (P)~~ - to sangerin
New Perspectives on Jacksonian Parties and Politics, Edward Pessen (P)
The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad (P)
South, Ernest Shackleton (P)
Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (P)
Hoop Roots, John Edgar Wideman (H)

Firsthand America: A History of the United States
The Complete Book of US Presidents
A More Perfect Union: Documents in U.S. History, 2nd Ed., Vol 2
The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity Third Edition
Words that Made American History
An American Harvest, Readings in American History Volume 2 (P)

Jihad vs. McWorld, Benjamin Barber (P)
The United Burger States of America, Peter Biddlecombe (P)
September 11, Terrorist Attacks and U.S. Foreign Policy, ed. Demetrios James Caraley (P)
The Mexican Shock, Jorge G. Castaneda (P)
Against All Enemies, Richard A. Clarke (H)
How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Robert Dahl (H)
Longitudes & Attitudes, Thomas Friedman (H)
Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite, Bruce Gilley (H)
Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy for a Democratic Society, Philip Heymann (P)
Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing, Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Caldwell (P)
Inside Terrorism, Bruce Hoffman (P)
The Bush Hater's Handbook, Jack Huberman (P)
~~How to Overthrow the Government, by Ariana Huffington (P)~~ - to lastholiday
The Bush Dyslexicon, Mark Crispin Miller (P)
The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism, Robin Morgan (P)
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, Peggy Noonan (H)
The New Jackals, Simon Reeve (H)
Alchemists of Revolution, Richard Rubenstein (H)
Forgotten: A Sister's Struggle to Save Terry Anderson, America's Longest-Held Hostage, Peggy Say (H)
A Force Upon the Plain, Kenneth S. Stern (H)
The Price of Loyalty, Ron Suskind (H)

~~Hasidim, Martin Buber (H)~~ - to sadisticferret
Schmoozing, Joshua Halberstam (P)
Jewish as a Second Language, Molly Katz (P)
~~The Apocrypha, edited by Manuel Komroff (H)~~ - to sadisticferret
This Is Real and You are Completely Unprepared, Alan Lew (H)
Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, Marlene Adler Marks (P)
~~Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews (H)~~ - to sadisticferret
The Meaning of Masonry, W. L. Wilmshurst (H)
This Is My God, Herman Wouk (P)

The Prophets/Nevi'im
~~Best Contemporary Jewish Writing~~ - to seftiri
~~Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul~~ - to lastholiday
The Science of Self-Realization

The Monster Book (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette, and Thomas Sniegoski (P)
~~The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am, Richard Greene and Peter Vernezze (P)~~ - to sadisticferret
~~Seurat, John Russell (P)~~ - to sadisticferret
~~National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our World (H)~~ - to sadisticferret
Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms (P)
Larousee's French-English, English-French Dictionary
The Writer's Handbook, 2000
Paris For Dummies (P)
His 3 (P)
Monarch Notes: Arthur Miller's The Crucible (P)
Family Circle Cooking
the score to Handel's Messiah
Congratulations! Now What?, Bill Cosby (H)
Zagat's Movie Guide
1001 Household Secrets
The Lettershop Calligraphy Project Kit
~~20.001 Food Facts, Chef's Secrets & Household Hints~~ - to sadisticferret
For the Graduate (four little keepsake volumes)
Cliffs Notes on Homer's The Odyssey
Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary 2nd Ed. (P)
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th Ed.
A Writer's Reference, 4th Ed., Diana Hacker
Chinese Brush Painting Workstation
Absolut Book
How Intelligent Are You? Victor Serebriakoff (H)

Ya veras!, Segundo nivel, Gutierrez Rosser (H)
Economics, Third Edition, Joseph Stiglitz & Carl Walsh (H)
Perl & CGI for the World Wide Web Second Edition, Elizabeth Castro (P)
El Espanol Al Dia 2
C'est ca!
Windows to Algebra and Geometry Teachers Edition
Making America Volume 2 Since 1865 (P)
On y Va Second Edition Teacher's Edition

Peterson's Graduate Schools in the U.S. 2005 (P)
Cracking the AP Chemistry 2000-2001 Edition
Brief Review in Physics 2000
Barron's AP Chemistry
Barron's AP US History
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2002
~~30 Days to the LSAT 2nd Ed.~~ - to sheepfairy
~~Barron's Passkey to the LSAT~~ - to sheepfairy
The Best College Admission Essays, Mark Alan Stewart and Cynthia C. Muchnick (P)
Barron's Regents Exams and Answers: Spanish
Barron's Regents Exams and Answers, Chemistry, 1999-2000

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anybody who wants any of the following books, just reply with your name and address and the books you want. comments are screened. all i ask is that you reimburse me the shipping fees, which can be super easily done via paypal or check.

fiction 

<lj-cut text="high-brow">

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams (H)
Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom (H)
The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander (P)
In the Name of Salome, Julia Alvarez (H)
Primary Colors, Anonymous (H)
The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel (P)
The Plains of Passage, Jean M. Auel (H)
The Mammoth Hunters, Jean M. Auel (P)
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster (H)
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen (P)
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (P)
Persuasion, Jane Austen (P)
<strike>Baby Bebop, Francesca Lia Block (P)</strike> - to <lj user="kimspieceofmind">
<strike>Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block</strike> - to <lj user="kimspieceofmind">
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (P)
Summer Sisters, Judy Blume (P)
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury (P)
One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury (H)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (P)
The Shape of Water, Andrea Camilleri (P)
When Rabbit Howls, Truddi Chase (P)
<strike>The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sexonastick">
Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sook Nyul Choi (P)
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Kate Chopin
Messiah, Andrei Codrescu (P)
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad (P)
Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad (P)
Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad (P)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (P)
The Witches, Roald Dahl (P)
Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly (P)
<strike>The Red Tent, Anita Diamant (P)</strike>
Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue (P)
<strike>The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (P)</strike> - to <lj user="_wirehead_">
Yoga for People who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer (P)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (P)
You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers(P)
Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
The Family Orchard, Nomi Eve (P)
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber (P)
Postcards from the Edge, Carrie Fisher (P)
<strike>The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (P)</strike> - to <lj user="_wirehead_">
Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald (P)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (P)
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (P)
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (P)
As Earth Begins to End, Patricia Goedicke (P)
The Rest of Life, Mary Gordon (P)
The Passion of Alice, Stephanie Grant (H)
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory (P)
<strike>Slow River, Nicola Griffith (P)</strike> - for <lj user="tellitslant">
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (P)
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr (P)
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (P)
<strike>Dune, Frank Herbert (P)</strike> - to <lj user=sexonastick">
<strike>All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
Washington Square, Henry James (P)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (P)
<strike>The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (P)</strike> - to <lj user="seftiri">
<strike>The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sexonastick">
The Princesse de Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
Circles of Stone, Joan Dahr Lambert (P)
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence (P)
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis (P)
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin, Richard Lourie (P)
Feather Crowns, Bobbie Ann Mason (P)
In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason (P)
Space, James Michener (P)
The Crucible, Arthur Miller (P)
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy (H)
<strike>Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien (H)</strike> - to <lj user="thenewhope">'s mom
<strike>In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien (P)</strike> - to <lj user="thenewhope">'s mom
<strike>The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (P)</strike> - to <lj user="thenewhope">'s mom
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (P)
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (P)
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk (P)
<strike>Women Prefer Women, Elula Perrin (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (P)
<strike>The Tin Princess, Philip Pullman (P)</strike> - to <lj user="_wirehead_">
<strike>The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman</strike> - to <lj user="sexonastick">
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand (P)
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand (P)
The Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand (P)
A Gracious Plenty, Shari Reynolds (H)
Entretien avec un vampire, Anne Rice (P)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins (P)
Charlotte Temple & Lucy Temple, Susanna Rowson (P)
Kissing in Manhattan, David Schickler (H)
Hamlet (P)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare vol 1(I think)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith (P)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (P)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (P)
Amy & Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout (P)
Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred Taylor (P)
The Mistress, Philippe Tapon (P)
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (P)
<strike>The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (P)</strike> - to <lj user="seftiri">
Goodbye, Vietnam, Gloria Whelan (P)
John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead (H)
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (P)
Our Town, Thornton Wilder (P)
The Man Who Loved Clowns, June Rae Wood (P)
<strike>A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sangerin">
<strike>Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto (P)</strike> - to <lj user="seftiri">
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel (H, ex-library)
The Song of Roland (P)
<strike>Four Major Plays, Ibsen (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sexonastick">
Earthmen & Strangers (P)
</lj-cut>

low-brow

<lj-cut text="thrillers/romance">
First Among Equals, Jeffrey Archer (H)
Wish You Well, David Baldacci (H)
Act of War, Dale Brown (P)
Digital Fortress, Dan Brown (P)
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown (P)
Close Case, Alafair Burke
Patriot Games, Tom Clancy (P)
Vital Signs, Robin Cook (P)
Trace, Patricia Cornwell (P)
By the Shore, Galaxy Craze (H)
Rising Sun, Michael Crichton (P)
The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver (P)
Twisted, Jeffery Deaver (P)
Tongue in Chic, Christina Dodd (P)
Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich (P)
Death Dance, Linda Fairstein (P)
See Jane Run, Joy Fielding (P)
Isle of Palms, Dorothea Benton Frank (H)
The Third Victim, Lisa Gardner (P)
Vanish, Tess Gerritsen (P)
Symphony, Charles Grant (P)
<strike>The Blue Place, Nicola Griffith (H)</strike> - for <lj user="tellitslant">
The Partner, John Grisham (H)
Malice Intended, Ron Handberg (P)
Le Silence des Agneaux, Thomas Harris
<strike>The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris (P)</strike>
Hannibal, Thomas Harris (P)
Red Dragon, Thomas Harris (P)
Dark Paradise, Tami Hoag (P)
Dark Horse, Tami Hoag (P)
Fatal Burn, Lisa Jackson (P)
Twice Kissed, Lisa Jackson (P)
Stalker, Faye Kellerman (H)
Justice, Faye Kellerman (H)
The Color of Death, Elizabeth Lowell (P)
Yesterday, Fern Michaels (H)
Fire Sale, Sara Paretsky (P)
Sea Change, Robert B. Parker (H)
Legal Tender, Lisa Scottoline (P)
Kill the Messenger, Tami Hoag (P)
Dirty Blonde, Lisa Scottoline (P)
Mistaken Identity, Lisa Scottoline (P)
</lj-cut>

<lj-cut text="scifi/fandom/fantasy novels">
The Ultimate Trek Trivia Challenge for the Next Generation
All Good Things... (Star Trek The Next Generation) (H)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (the first one)
<strike>The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sangerin">
The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers Vol. 2

Antibodies (XF), Kevin Anderson (P)
The Devil's Heart (Star Trek the Next Generation), Carmen Carter (P)
Imzadi (ST:TNG), Peter David (P)
Q Squared (ST:TNG), Peter David (P)
Reunion (ST:TNG), Michael Jan Friedman (P)
Possession (ST:TNG), J.M. Dillard and Kathleen O'Malley (P)
The Last Stand (Star Trek The Next Generation), Brad Ferguson (P)
Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All In a Row, Christopher Golden (P)
Ghost Roads (Buffy), Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (P)
The Murdered Sun (Star Trek Voyager), Christie Golden (P)
Whirlwind (XF), Charles Grant (P)
Dragon's Honor (ST:TNG), Kij Johnson and Greg Cox (P)
Magic's Pawn (Book One of the Last Herald Mage), Mercedes Lackey (P)
Cybersong (ST:VOY), S.N. Lewitt (P)
Chains of Command (ST:TNG), W.A. McCay and E.L. Flood (P)
Imbalance (ST:TNG), V.E. Mitchell (P)
The Death of Princes (ST:TNG), John Peel (P)
Star Trek: Federation, Judith & Garfield Reeves Stevens (P)
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling (H)
Venus of Shadows, Pamela Sargent (P)
Pathways (Star Trek Voyager), Jeri Taylor (P)
Mosaic (Star Trek Voyager), Jeri Taylor (H)
</lj-cut>

<lj-cut text="poetry">
Collected Poems, Emily Dickinson (H)
<strike>The Top 500 Poems ed. By William Harmon (H)</strike> - to <lj user="seftiri">
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Black Series, Laurie Sheck (P)
Repair, c.k. williams (P)

New Orleans Review 30:2
Poems that Live Forever (H)
</lj-cut>

non-fiction

<lj-cut text="science">
Hypatia's Heritage, Margaret Alic (P)
The Planet that Wasn't, Isaac Asimov (P)
<strike>Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (P)</strike> - to <lj user="seftiri">
<strike>The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything, John Gribbin (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
Supersymmetry, Gordon Kane (H)
<strike>The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything, Richard Morris (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
<strike>Belief in God in an Age of Science, John Polkinghorne (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
The Biotech Century, Jeremy Rifkin (P)
</lj-cut>

<lj-cut text="history/bio">
In Our Defense, Elen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou (H)
<strike>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sexonastick">
Way Out There in the Blue, Frances Fitzgerald (H)
Israel on the Road to Peace, Ziva Flamhaft (P)
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman (H)
The States Rights Debate Second Edition, Alpheus Thomas Mason (P)
American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68, Ernest R. May (P)
Memoir of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy (P)
Where There's Hope: There's Love and Laughter, Hope Mihalap (P)
<strike>Eva Peron: A Biography, by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sangerin">
New Perspectives on Jacksonian Parties and Politics, Edward Pessen (P)
The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad (P)
South, Ernest Shackleton (P)
Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (P)
Hoop Roots, John Edgar Wideman (H)

Firsthand America: A History of the United States
The Complete Book of US Presidents
A More Perfect Union: Documents in U.S. History, 2nd Ed., Vol 2
The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity Third Edition
Words that Made American History
An American Harvest, Readings in American History Volume 2 (P)
</lj-cut>

<lj-cut text="politics/terrorism">
Jihad vs. McWorld, Benjamin Barber (P)
The United Burger States of America, Peter Biddlecombe (P)
September 11, Terrorist Attacks and U.S. Foreign Policy, ed. Demetrios James Caraley (P)
The Mexican Shock, Jorge G. Castaneda (P)
Against All Enemies, Richard A. Clarke (H)
How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Robert Dahl (H)
Longitudes & Attitudes, Thomas Friedman (H)
Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite, Bruce Gilley (H)
Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy for a Democratic Society, Philip Heymann (P)
Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing, Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Caldwell (P)
Inside Terrorism, Bruce Hoffman (P)
The Bush Hater's Handbook, Jack Huberman (P)
<strike>How to Overthrow the Government, by Ariana Huffington (P)</strike> - to <lj user="lastholiday">
The Bush Dyslexicon, Mark Crispin Miller (P)
The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism, Robin Morgan (P)
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, Peggy Noonan (H)
The New Jackals, Simon Reeve (H)
Alchemists of Revolution, Richard Rubenstein (H)
Forgotten: A Sister's Struggle to Save Terry Anderson, America's Longest-Held Hostage, Peggy Say (H)
A Force Upon the Plain, Kenneth S. Stern (H)
The Price of Loyalty, Ron Suskind (H)
</lj-cut>

<lj-cut text="religion">
<strike>Hasidim, Martin Buber (H)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
Schmoozing, Joshua Halberstam (P)
Jewish as a Second Language, Molly Katz (P)
<strike>The Apocrypha, edited by Manuel Komroff (H)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
This Is Real and You are Completely Unprepared, Alan Lew (H)
Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, Marlene Adler Marks (P)
<strike>Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews (H)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
The Meaning of Masonry, W. L. Wilmshurst (H)
This Is My God, Herman Wouk (P)

The Prophets/Nevi'im
<strike>Best Contemporary Jewish Writing</strike> - to <lj user="seftiri">
<strike>Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul</strike> - to <lj user="lastholiday">
The Science of Self-Realization
</lj-cut>

<lj-cut text="etc.">
The Monster Book (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette, and Thomas Sniegoski (P)
<strike>The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am, Richard Greene and Peter Vernezze (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
<strike>Seurat, John Russell (P)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
<strike>National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our World (H)</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms (P)
Larousee's French-English, English-French Dictionary
The Writer's Handbook, 2000
Paris For Dummies (P)
His 3 (P)
Monarch Notes: Arthur Miller's The Crucible (P)
Family Circle Cooking
the score to Handel's Messiah
Congratulations! Now What?, Bill Cosby (H)
Zagat's Movie Guide
1001 Household Secrets
The Lettershop Calligraphy Project Kit
<strike>20.001 Food Facts, Chef's Secrets & Household Hints</strike> - to <lj user="sadisticferret">
For the Graduate (four little keepsake volumes)
Cliffs Notes on Homer's The Odyssey
Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary 2nd Ed. (P)
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th Ed.
A Writer's Reference, 4th Ed., Diana Hacker
Chinese Brush Painting Workstation
Absolut Book
How Intelligent Are You? Victor Serebriakoff (H)
</lj-cut>

<lj-cut text="ex-texts">
Ya veras!, Segundo nivel, Gutierrez Rosser (H)
Economics, Third Edition, Joseph Stiglitz & Carl Walsh (H)
Perl & CGI for the World Wide Web Second Edition, Elizabeth Castro (P)
El Espanol Al Dia 2
C'est ca!
Windows to Algebra and Geometry Teachers Edition
Making America Volume 2 Since 1865 (P)
On y Va Second Edition Teacher's Edition
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Peterson's Graduate Schools in the U.S. 2005 (P)
Cracking the AP Chemistry 2000-2001 Edition
Brief Review in Physics 2000
Barron's AP Chemistry
Barron's AP US History
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2002
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<strike>Barron's Passkey to the LSAT</strike> - to <lj user="sheepfairy">
The Best College Admission Essays, Mark Alan Stewart and Cynthia C. Muchnick (P)
Barron's Regents Exams and Answers: Spanish
Barron's Regents Exams and Answers, Chemistry, 1999-2000
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Cover Letters that Knock 'Em Dead, Martin Yate
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i am a thirteen year old girl.

2007-05-29T18:20:34Z

OH HAI. guess what you guys? my uterus is bleeding! WITHOUT THE AID OF CONTRACEPTIVES.

this has not happened in years! seriously, YEARS. it is so exciting. i am the prouded uterus-owner that ever was.

also, and unrelatedly:

you should all go join goodreads. you can be my friend and tell me about what you're reading and read my exciting reviews! yay!

um, that was uncomfortable.

2007-05-21T14:46:02Z

hey, people who like the office:

i need some help. could someone please explain to me how this season finale wasn't offensive to the following characters: karen, pam, and/or jan? or, more generally, professional women?

god, i loved being a kid.

2007-05-15T17:09:35Z

i always forget how much i love coloring books. then dover reminds me.

think you're too old? how about a topical coloring book? like... the international space station coloring book, the california missions coloring book, the italian picture word book, or the long island nature preserves coloring book.

man, they're specific. I LOVE DOVER.

(also, did you notice my kickass new moodtheme? elizabeth! care of nomorecasualty.)

dear durham...ites?

2007-05-14T15:16:22Z

or people in the greater durhamish area:

okay, i have to find an apartment in durham to live in for a minimum of two years. okay, i guess i could move midway, but... okay, that's not relevant. the point is, i don't know fuckall about durham or raleigh, really, and therefore have no idea if there are SUPER AWESOME neighborhoods/complexes to live in and SUPER AWFUL ones. apartmentratings.com has edumacated me about some big no-nos, but... it's hard figuring this all out from so far away!

so, any advice?