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Mar 24, 2010 20:26

I think that we can all agree that this community has been dead for the past few months.
What happened here, guys? We're all exciting, friendly, passionate people!
I for one believe that it's time to resurrect booklisters and become a true community again.

How shall we do this, you ask?

By holding a
Friending Meme

I think that if we could all just come out of ( Read more... )

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installmentplan March 25 2010, 09:28:55 UTC
About Me:

Name: Lisbeth.
Age: 23.
Occupation: Bookseller. Burlesque dancer. Freelance Illustrator.

Books

Favorite Author: Umberto Eco, Flannery O'Connor, etc.
Favorite Book: Beowulf, Foucault's Pendulum, The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break, etc.
Least Favorite Book: Wuthering Heights. Twilight. Prozac Nation
Book I Am Currently Reading: Gone With The Wind

Life Outside of Reading

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Twin Peaks. Arrested Development. Black Books. Spaced. The Golden Girls. Cleo From 5 to 7. Vertigo. Grand Hotel.
Favorite Music: Bob Dylan. Nick Cave. Tom Waits. Angelo Badalamenti.
Hobbies: Painting. LGBT activism. Art nude modeling. Burlesque. Knitting. Baking. Studying. Photography. Weight training. Aerial silk dancing. Roller derby.
Other: I love anchovies.
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pere_chan March 25 2010, 11:28:43 UTC
omg I only remembered Black Books after I posted and saw your entry...Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey are two of my very favourite comedians. I've wondered if Dylan is not, in fact, Neil Gaiman's evil Irish twin...

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pere_chan March 25 2010, 11:23:05 UTC
About Me:

Name: Mahala
Age: 30
Occupation: Illustrator/animator

Books

Favorite Author: Mary Renault, Patricia McKillip, Terry Pratchett (comfort reading)
Favorite Book(s):Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai, Mary Renault's Fire From Heaven, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, Arthur Brown's Audrey Hepburn's Neck, Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.
Least Favorite Book: White Oleander. O gods and little fishes.
Book I Am Currently Reading: Laurence Osborne's Paris Dreambook.

Life Outside of Reading

Favorite TV Shows: Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls, Glee, Mythbusters, any British quiz-comedy, and a truly horrifying amount of Western and Japanese animation ranging from the late 70s through to the latest Cartoon Network/NHK/Animax offerings.
Favorite Movies:Nausicäa, Persepolis, Appleseed Ex Machina, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The Last Unicorn, Silence of the Lambs, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Dark Knight, The Fifth Element, X-Men 1 and 2, LOTR, Hero, Barbarella, Beautiful Losers, Iron Man, Kiki ( ... )

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red_rose_remix March 25 2010, 14:41:07 UTC
Kiki's Delivery Service is my comfort movie :D I ADORE it. Every time everything is going horribly wrong, I put on Kiki's Delivery Service and feel a little bit better.

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liret March 25 2010, 17:51:25 UTC


Name: Jess
Age: 26
Occupation: Student, occasional Archaeologist

Books

Favorite Author: Connie Willis, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jim Butcher
Favorite Book: whatever I happen to be reading. I'm fickle and easily distracted!
Least Favorite Book: If I don't like it, I probably won't get far enough into it to develop strong feelings.
Book I Am Currently Reading: Roadkill, Rob Thurman

Life Outside of Reading

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: Criminal Minds, Chuck, Lost
Favorite Music: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Girlyman, Lady GaGa
Hobbies: World of Warcraft, Writing, drawing, eating.

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rose_onlyolder March 26 2010, 14:43:18 UTC
Name: Rose ( ... )

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lieutenant_sid March 30 2010, 13:39:04 UTC
About Me

Name: Kelsey
Age: 21
Occupation: English student

Books

Favorite Author: Terry Pratchett or Bill Bryson
Favorite Book: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Least Favorite Book: The Devil and Miss Prymm
Book I Am Currently Reading: Push, by Sapphire

Life Outside of Reading

Favorite TV Shows/Movies: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, How I Met Your Mother
Favorite Music: U2, Rufus Wainwright, Jason Mraz
Hobbies: Drinking, amusing myself, being with friends, writing
Other: I work overnight in my university's library.
Photo!: Ugh not now, just got off work...

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