Hildy
Hildy Hildy

“I pack light so more books will fit in my suitcase”

Hair – Brown
Eyes – Brown
Body – Fit, Petite
Style – Natural

Hildy

36-year-old woman in Washington, DC, United States
Seeking a man, 28 to 43
Arcadia: A Play

Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

This is really cheating because it is a play and should be seen on stage. geeky romantics of the world unite!

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

"On Self-Respect" taught me how to be an adult....

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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

Fear and Loathing

Hunter S. Thompson

Made me realize why I was attracted to politics but why it wasnt particularly a good idea to go into politics

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Persuasion (Norton Critical Editions)

Persuasion

Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks

Of course I love P&P, but this novel is wish-fufillment for a more mature audience

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

It is odd when a writer seems to match the clutter and rhythms of your own internal monologue with his prose...love his nonfiction, but this just was a masterpiece. I had a bit of a hard...more »

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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

just heartbreaking. I thought Scorcese did a wonderful job with it....but the book is even more devastating.

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The Thin Man

The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett

I want to be Nick and Nora when I grow up

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary...

Douglas Adams

formative, read it when I was 11

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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)

Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers

Favorite couple...more than nick and nora, more than walter burns and hildy, more than kermit and piggy

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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

How Soccer Explains the World

Franklin Foer

suprisingly hopeful. a bit of an antidote to some of the other more pessimistic books for the thoughtful soccer fan. Go Spurs!

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To Kill a Mockingbird (slipcased edition)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Practically perfect in every way. I don't care that everyone else likes it....

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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History

The Armies of the Night

Norman Mailer

I think I am going to re-read this book this weekend since all the tea-partyers are coming to town courtesy of Glenn Beck....

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Candide

Candide

Voltaire

To bad this basically is an extended argument for a Jeffersonian agrarian economy....but there is something to be said for tending your garden and ignoring how awful the world can be.

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A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A bit of a gateway drug....have since read better poetry, and many of the original sources he used as quotes, but nothing compares to the first time

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The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

I see a mystery, I want it painted black....

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Garbage: A Poem

Garbage

A. R. Ammons

An epic poem for the turn of the century (this turn of the century)

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Cryptonomicon

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

just fun...

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True Grit

True Grit

Donna Tartt, Charles Portis

best pre-teen heroine ever....except perhaps for Scout. Everyone should read this before the coen brothers movie comes out

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Straight Man: A Novel

Straight Man

Richard Russo

I ever have enough free time to own a pet...Occam shall be its name

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The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics)

The Way We Live Now

John Sutherland, Anthony Trollope

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