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Real name: Camilla
Gender: Female
Age: 42
Country: Norway

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Date joined: Aug. 29, 2009
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I posted under mierin sedai and ©amilla at wotmania.


I read. Conan Doyle, Tolkien, Stevenson, Shakespeare, Vergil, Adams, Pratchett, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Sophokles, Bjørneboe, Asimov, Leroux, Dante, Austen, Tolstoj, Dostojevskij, Dumas, Rowling, Bulgakov, DeWitt, García Marquez, Woolf, Harkaway, Eco, Benjamin, Wodehouse...and now Dickens.


Hobbies: theatre, books, coffee...lots of coffee. chocolate! and aikido!!



Books finished so far this year:


The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making -- Catherynne M. Valente

Memento Mori -- Muriel Spark

The Valley of Fear -- Arthur Conan Doyle

The Twistrose Key -- Tone Almhjell

The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Charles Dickens

The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy

In the Land of Invented Languages -- Arika Okrent

Misreadings -- Umberto Eco

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick

The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula Le Guin

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway

The Quantum Thief -- Hannu Rajaniemi

Rocannon's World -- Ursula Le Guin

Planet of Exile -- Ursula Le Guin

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil -- Hannah Arendt

The Female Man -- Joanna Russ

City of Illusions -- Ursula Le Guin

Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand -- Samuel R. Delany

The Dispossessed -- Ursula Le Guin

Tigerman -- Nick Harkaway

The Fractal Prince -- Hannu Rajaniemi

The Word For World Is Forest -- Ursula Le Guin

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime -- Judith Flanders

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution -- Laurie Penny

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elisabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World -- Matthew Goodman

The Vesuvius Club -- Mark Gatiss

The Bloody Chamber -- Angela Carter

Wolf Hall -- Hilary Mantel

The Sirens of Titan -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case -- Agatha Christie

The Music of the Primes: why an usolved problem in mathematics matters -- Marcus du Sautoy

Macroanalysis: Digital Methods & Literary History -- Matthew L. Jockers

Stoner: A Novel -- John Williams

Men Explain Things to Me -- Rebecca Solnit

10,000 Light-Years from Home -- James Tiptree, Jr.

The Daughter of Time -- Josephine Tey

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher -- Hilary Mantel

Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 -- Marc Bloch

Titus Groan -- Mervyn Peake

Ragnarok -- A. S. Byatt

Barnaby Rudge -- Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus -- L. Frank Baum

The Santa Klaus Murder -- Mavis Doriel Hay

The Nutcracker -- E. T. A. Hoffmann