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Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor

The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker

Resurrecting Hebrew (Jewish Encounters) by Ilan Stavans

The Lover by A. B. Yehoshua

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Member: carioca

CollectionsYour library (839), To read (1), All collections (839)

Reviews69 reviews

TagsNonfiction (365), Fiction (289), American (199), History (67), Brazilian (64), UK (64), Biography (53), WWII (48), Nobel Prize Winners (46), Reference (43) — see all tags

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GroupsBrasil, Existentialism, German literature and poetry, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Israeli LibraryThingers, Jewish Cookbooks and Cookery, Jewish History, Literature in Portuguese, Poetry Fool, poetry in translation — show all groups

Favorite authorsYehuda Amichai, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bishop, Elias Canetti, Rubem Fonseca, Günter Grass, Hermann Hesse, Clarice Lispector, Thomas Mann, Amos Oz, Fernando Pessoa, מאיר שלו (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Georgetown, Bartleby's Books, Busboys and Poets, Kramerbooks, Politics and Prose, Second Story Books

About meI am a book lover in my 30s and I can't believe I never came across this website before! This is some sort of heaven... I live in Washington, DC - a city I love.

About my libraryMy library is as eclectic as can be; my interestes range from literature to science and the occasional political cartoons compilation. I have several Portuguese language books (I am Brazilian) and I have a love of German expressionism (think Thomas Mann). My little library is also overflowing with books on Israel, Judaism, the Holocaust and WWII, poetry, linguistics and philosophy.

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Real nameGisela

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Member sinceMar 2, 2008

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carioca added:
A man and his dog by Thomas Mann

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Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew: Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar by Gary A. Long

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Hebrew Talk: 101 Hebrew Roots And The Stories They Tell by Joseph Lowin

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Wandering Star (Lannan Translation Selection Series) by J.M.G. Le Clézio

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Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne

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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped by Paul Strathern

Noticed you liked Ice Storm, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a dysfunctional family and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 6:02 pm (EST) on May 10, 2009

hi Gisela,
hey, no worries, glad to hear from you again.....
Best,
Hans

posted by zerkalo at 9:06 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2008

are you still alive????

posted by zerkalo at 5:36 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2008

i keep bumping in to your name all over this LT thing, but "Whiskey"?!

too cool for school.

knob creek bourbon, please.

neat.

pleased to meet you, a tip of my hat if i've neglected to say hello before now. nice collection you have here.

posted by tcw at 1:28 pm (EST) on May 2, 2008

Thank you so much for your reading suggestions.My public library has only one of Meir Shalev's,"A Boy and a Pigeon" so I will start with that and look for others by him.I see we both enjoy reading Nobel winners too.

posted by posthumose at 9:03 am (EST) on Mar 15, 2008

Thank you for including me in your interesting libraries!
Cyrel

posted by torontoc at 8:57 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2008

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