Search bouillabaisse's booksRandom books from bouillabaisse's libraryLast Exit to Brooklyn (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Hubert Selby Jr. Bus Stops by Taro Gomi Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book (At Table) by Jane Grigson The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy by Tyler Cowen Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West by Mark Wyman Feast: Food to Celebrate Life by Nigella Lawson Members with bouillabaisse's booksMember connectionsFriends: EdwardEinhorn Interesting library: clong, efeltonf, MaggieO, psybre, the_red_shoes, tyrosine RSS feeds
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Member: bouillabaisseCollectionsYour library (8,181), Currently reading (8), To read (80), Read but unowned (1), All collections (8,181) Reviews10 reviews Tagsspl (3,366), cooking (1,571), lit (1,384), Maggie's (1,159), own (927), 2014 (911), EY (906), 2013 (763), psychology (756), 2012 (589) — see all tags MediaNot set (21), Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror About meI like to read different things. One book seems to lead to another and to another and to another. And so on. I still need to learn how to organize my lists and my reading. Or maybe not. updated 1/12/09 About my libraryMy library is mostly made up of books that I have read, currently own, have owned at some point, or checked out from the library (in recent years, that accounts for many many books...). Current interests range from cooking to food writing to sustainability to mindfulness to meditation to neuroscience to mental health/psychology to sociology to anthropology to evolutionary psychology to books about books. I try to read the occasional lit book/novel but find that I just "dont have the time" to sit and give the book its due consideration and attention that it so deserves. So I end up reading nonfiction books that I can read in spurts of concentrated attention, e.g., recent popular books about how we are losing the ability for sustained attention and instead are becoming increasingly distracted (Maggie Jackson's "Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age" & Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains"). Though it could also be because I have a new child... (updated 9/10/10) Groups75 Books Challenge for 2010, ROOT - 2014 Read Our Own Tomes VenuesFavorites Favorite bookstoresBailey-Coy Books, Books Kinokuniya - Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle), Half Price Books - Capitol Hill, Left Bank Books Favorite librariesSeattle Public Library (Beacon Hill Branch), Seattle Public Library (Columbia Branch), Seattle Public Library (Douglass-Truth Branch), Seattle Public Library (International/Chinatown Branch) Real nameK-ster LocationSeattle, WA, USA Favorite authorsNot set Account typepublic, lifetime URLs
/profile/bouillabaisse (profile) Member sinceOct 20, 2008 Currently readingI Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary Most recent activity
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