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I actually find Amazon's prices to be a lot cheaper than in regular bookstores. My boyfriend and I always combine our book orders to make sure we get the free shipping, too. I like Amazon, but I'm pretty sure I'm biased because they're a local company and they've done a lot for our economy and for the city.

My older brother is terrible at math, but amazing at reading music. In fact, he's a composer!

I've played the piano since I was 8, and I started playing the flute when I was 11. I don't play either much anymore, but I love to whenever I get the chance! My family has always been into music. My older brother is the band director at a local high school and my younger brother is getting his doctorate in music at Boston University this fall (he just got his Master's at The New England Conservatory this spring). I guess you could say it's in our blood!

This has been high up on my wish list ever since I read The Magic Toyshop a few years ago. I'd really like to read all of Angela Carter's books, I love her style!

Welcome back, Welshman!!

A PBS Frontline documentary about Bernie Maddoff.

I'm probably going to miss most of them, but I'll be watching them all online! I love summer on PBS!

I just ordered a new manga, Blue Spring by Taiyo Matsumoto. It's not part of a series or anything, but it looks amazing!

I'll sometimes give them away to people I think might enjoy them, or send them off to another BCF member who likes to watch reviews. Otherwise, I just keep them.

Some more of my heroes: Rick Steves Johnny Depp (for more than just the obvious) The Buddha My late uncle...I never understood just how fully he lived his life until he was gone.

I used to want to be the little girl from Charlotte's Web. I loved how simple and kind she was and that she could talk to animals.

I use LibraryThing and even purchased an unlimited membership, since I knew I was going to go way over the 200 free membership limit (I'm somewhere just under 700 books catalogued at this point). I really like LT, as it lets me have total control over what my library looks like, how it's catagorized, and what cover art is used. I'm on there as artbunny.

I think it would be amazing to own a first edition of something by one of my favorite authors, like Jane Austen, Tolkien, or Dickens. I think I might have a first edition of Tolkien's The Silmarillion and my mom gave my boyfriend a first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, which is locked up in one of our firesafes.

I've had a migraine now for the past few days. I got really sick at work yesterday and almost decided to come home. I'm thinking that I should finally bring this up with my doctor, which I've never done.

Sleepers.....Billy Crudup.....mmm, sexy!!

I'll usually have cold cereal and orange juice, but I'll often have a toasted bagel with cream cheese (or butter an honey), scrambled eggs with bacon and/or toast, or hot cereal, like Cream of Wheat (which is what I had this morning). The only constant is juice...I always have juice.

YAY! That's what we like to hear! We hope to see more of you on the forum!

I just finished a book called One Man's Wilderness, which consists of the journals of Dick Proenneke. He retired at the age of 50, moved to the Alaskan wilderness, and built a cabin by hand and lived there for the next 20 years or so. The book covers his first year, as he builds the cabin, endures the subzero winter, hunts and catches his own food, and enjoys the solitude of living alone in the woods. I highly recommend it!!!

Peacefield, they did a DNA test on his body, comparing it to the DNA of his deceased sister. Then they gave him a "burial at sea", which I was at first surprised at, but after hearing the explanation of some counterterrorism officials, that it denies his followers a kind of "shrine" or gathering point, it does make sense. It's still kind of unbelievable, though, isn't it?

Kylie, that's horrible!

Notes from Underground is more of a political and philosophical treatise, not a novel. I've been trying to re-read Crime and Punishment, since I read it last in high school and can't remember much. But now I'm thinking that I should give up and move on to The Brothers Karamazov, since so many people here seemed to like it!

Disorder and Disarray - Rancid One Headlight - The Wallflowers Clavar la Espada - Shiro Sagisu (Bleach Soundtrack III) Even Flow - Pearl Jam Mayonaise - The Smashing Pumpkins Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana Avenues and Alleyways - Rancid Awake My Soul - Mumford and Sons Wheels - Foo Fighters

I've read most of Murakami's novels, and I've loved all of them. A good one for a book club would be maybe Sputnik Sweetheart or Norwegian Wood. Neither are very long and there is a ton to talk about.

An old horror movie from the 1960s: 13 Ghosts. I've seen the remake, which I really liked, but this one is a little cheesy for me.

I often read the reviews on Amazon, but if I'm buying a book by an author I love, like Haruki Murakami, I don't bother. But I find that reviews are especially helpful for my non-fiction purchases.