Jessica had to say...
All About Me: Avid Bookworm
I'm a very, very, very broke law student in Nebraska, so I trade off a lot of CDs for books on swapacd! I enjoy classical literature and Booker Prize/National Book Award/Pulitzer literature, as well as well-written children's literature. I grew up near a bookstore and learned to treat books like porcelain. I hate markings, dog-ears, and broken spines. I wanted to be a librarian when I grew up, but my mom nixed that idea early and here I am.
I usually trade only Very Good to Like New condition books. I have gotten a lot of duplicate books lately, including a lot of decrepit, stained, torn, and bent books of late. Please don't send these! I cannot re-trade them in good conscience! If you have deals on "Literary Award" books absolutely contact me and we will work something out!
Enjoys: Literature
- Edith Wharton - Summer, Ethan Frome, Age of Innocence, The Touchstone, House of Mirth, The Reef, Xingu, collected short stories.
- Jane Austen - Persuasion, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Mansfield Park, all the major works.
- Cao Xueqin - Journey to the West (Monkey)
- C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
- Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
- Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, The Night of January 14th, Anthem
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
- Kate Chopin - The Awakening
- J.R. Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings
- Orwell - 1984
- Camus - The Plague, but not The Stranger (as much)
- Nabokov - Lolita, but not Ada
- Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
- Alex Haley - Roots
- Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
- Andy Rooney and Dave Barry - EVERYTHING
- Children's Books: Crictor, Mrs. PiggleWiggle, Bunnicula, A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quartet), "No, David!", The Jolly Postman, A Little Princess, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tom Sawyer, Encyclopedia Brown Series, The Secret Garden, The Phantom Tollbooth, Harry Potter Series, Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, Little Women, My Side of the Mountain, A Study in Scarlet, Just-So Stories, Five Children and It, most Newbery Award winners;
- Random Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo, Ivanhoe, The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, The Divine Comedy (but only The Inferno), The Phantom of the Opera, and;
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy and the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
Didn't Enjoy: Plot-driven books (no quotable quotes)
- Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Canterbury Tales, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor,
- Mass Fiction: The DaVinci Code, A Civil Action, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, any of the Sue Grafton books, mass-pulp romances, Charlotte Grey, The Hours, Chocolat, Corelli's Mandolin, Snow Falling on Cedars
- Hemingway, Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Great Gatsby - By my 3rd time reading it, I finally realized that I should stop looking for reasons to like it.
- I dislike most "post-modernist" lit that is intentionally fragmented, rambling, and incoherent. It is just like I dislike David Lynch movies. I don't like reading books where my reading it is the entire point of the "experience." No, just give me some coherent, escapist fare. That being said, I don't like Don DeLillo or E.L. Doctorow's City of God, but I do like Jonathan Franzen.
I have some raggedy books in my case, if you order a book from me, you can have a freebie book. Note: I will add books to the list below relatively soon!
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