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Four-year English degree is half done and on hiatus while I accumulate funds via a highly uncharacteristic job in the lending industry (we're the good guys, I promise), and lower-level credits via community college for an additional degree in Psychology.

(I harbor secret dreams of graduate school, but B.A.s are required for M.A.s, I hear. And PhDs, well, pssh.)

Books and reading have been a life-long love. Anyone who knows me a little knows to enter into literary waters at their own peril—abandon all hope, ye fickle sailors!—for I will give myself over to discussion and debate eagerly, hungrily, and with a passion that dissuades most casual readers from ever breaching that topic again.

There is nothing so delicious or as exhilarating as the power of words well writ.

When I'm not reading, gleefully up to my armpits in farm-filth, working, or sleeping, I also knit. Find me on ravelry as saidthestarling.]]> 24 female Saint Augustine, FL 04/2009 10/2009 5152 Vladimir Nabokov 656983 J.R.R. Tolkien 3618 Philip Pullman 6765 Virginia Woolf 1077326 J.K. Rowling 44003 Katharine Kerr 12 145 116 true 5674901 read 1 true 4934252 currently-reading 28 true 4934251 to-read 0 true 5289448 currently-rereading 21 false 5619836 manga 15 false 4958952 tolkien 14 false 5542554 owned-unread 8 false 5608183 favorites 6 false 5542563 scifi 6 false 5608510 psychology 1 false 5598990 giveaway-wins 0 false 5289440 to-reread 0 false 5608511 spirituality http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44820881 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255641275s/1137327.jpg 2269607 Jessica Halleck http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249139839p2/2269607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2269607-jessica-halleck Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:23:39 -0700 Weekends at Bellevue (Hardcover) by Julie Holland]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66839600 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255641135s/6478646.jpg 2269607 Jessica Halleck http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249139839p2/2269607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2269607-jessica-halleck Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:19:32 -0700 The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion, #4) by Dan Simmons]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65403276 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255631495s/11289.jpg 2269607 Jessica Halleck http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249139839p2/2269607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2269607-jessica-halleck Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:18:02 -0700 The Chronicles of Narnia (Books 1-7) by C.S. Lewis]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67379279 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166457868s/11127.jpg 2269607 Jessica Halleck http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249139839p2/2269607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2269607-jessica-halleck Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:03:57 -0700
The allegory is unquestionably heavy, especially as the series ends, but not a deal-breaker in the least. Lewis succeeded in crafting a world so self-contained and infused with charm that it's ...more...]]> Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1) by Timothy Zahn]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67640762 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783575s/216443.jpg 2269607 Jessica Halleck http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249139839p2/2269607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2269607-jessica-halleck Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:48:09 -0700 Star Wars book I ever picked up, and all others were thereafter doomed to harsh judgement by comparison. I loved this book back then. I'd love to read it and its sequels again sometime.

more...]]> Endymion (Hyperion, #3) by Dan Simmons]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65403253 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5138GDG49AL._SL75_.jpg 2269607 Jessica Halleck http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1249139839p2/2269607.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2269607-jessica-halleck Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:34:38 -0700 This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.]]>