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Gender	Female
Location	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Introduction	I'm a nerd, a Christian, a lady, a lover, a fighter, and a hopeless Romantic. This blog is mostly me trying to figure crap out. Being an adult is hard, and thinking about stuff is hard, too. Join my struggle, and remember: Don't be a dick.
Interests	Put these in your eyes: here are books that weren't necessarily my "favorites, " but books that for some reason "haunted" me - books that I couldn't forget, whose themes and/or scenes I revisited in my head over and over, even after only one reading (in some cases, many years ago), and that heavily influenced my moral and mental development. In no particular order, then: 1) The Moorchild (Eloise Jarvis McGraw) 2) The Dark is Rising Sequence (Susan Cooper) 3) Watch Series (Sergei Lukyanenko) 4) Earthsea Cycle (Ursula K. LeGuin) 5) Fight Club (Chuck Palahnuik - though I am super unimpressed by the rest of his repertoire. There's something to be said for reading it as a depressed 19-year-old, living in her first apartment, working to pay actual bills for the first time) 6) The Bridge of San Luis Ray (Thornton Wilder) 7) Fire and Hemlock (Diana Wynne Jones) 8) Abhorsen Trilogy (Garth Nix) 9) Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card - To teenage me, this book and the series following were about taking people for who and what they are, without judgment - about seeing into someone's soul, understanding them, and accepting them for just that. I almost don't want to reread them, because I'm fairly certain that's not what these books were about...) 10) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams) 11) House of Leaves (Mark Z Danielewski) 12) The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher - this series gets better with every book. I don't understand why these books haven't hit Potter/Tolkein status yet, because they are right up there) 13) LotR (OBVS) 14) The Last Unicorn (Peter S Beagle) 15) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 16) The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster) 17) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 18) The Secret Garden (Francis Hodgson Burnett) 19) The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd - one of the first books I read that really spoke of how "women's stories" could have deep artistic value, believe it or not...)