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	Name: Jasmine Nakagawa
	City & State: Oakland, California
	Vocation / Avocation: Manager of Marketing, KOMENAR Publishing/Artist/Runner

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

If you had asked me before The Parrot coined the term "Habitual Reader," I might've revealed that I considered myself a bit of a bully in preschool. But I realize now that "bully" is not the appropriate word. I was merely a Habber in the making.

Here's an example of my nasty mini-Habber behavior: I would memorize the stories that my father read to me at bedtime, then force the other 3 and 4-year-olds at preschool to listen as I recited the stories to them in a corner of the playground.

Once a mini-Habber . . . now a furious-page-flipping, book-sniffing, character-befriending grown up Habber.

My List of Ten: Novels with Unhappy Endings

1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Author: Thomas Hardy

2. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Author: Simms Taback

3. Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4. Of Mice and Men
Author: John Steinbeck

5. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Author: J.K. Rowling

6. Mystic River
Author: Dennis Lahane

7. The Velveteen Rabbit
Author: Margery Williams

8. Othello
Author: William Shakespeare

9. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston

10. Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe

Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.

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