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Member: Audacity

CollectionsYour library (631), To read (213), Read but unowned (13), Favorites (45), All collections (644)

Reviews18 reviews

TagsTBR (232), YA (112), children's lit (111), to be sold (72), American history (59), chick lit (59), creative non fiction (51), read in 2008 (49), favorite (48), read in 2009 (46) — see all tags

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GroupsArchivists on LibraryThing, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Children's Literature, Historical Fiction, Hogwarts Express, Kiddie Lit-ers: A Children's Literature Book Club, Librarians who LibraryThing, Non-Fiction Readers, The Green Dragon, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsJ. M. Barrie, Bill Bryson, Jim Daniels, Annie Dillard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philippa Gregory, Barbara Kingsolver, Sophie Kinsella, Anne Lamott, Frank McCourt, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sylvia Plath, J. K. Rowling, David Sedaris, Anya Seton, Lauren Willig, Naomi Wolf (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresArchives Book Shop of East Lansing, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - East Lansing, Curious Book Shop, Everybody Reads, Fortress Comics & Games, Gibson's Used Bookstore (MSU), Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles

Favorite librariesEast Lansing Public Library, Oakland University Kresge Library

About meI'd like to pretend that I'm a writer, but I'm really just a college student with no money and too many books.

The 2009 Fifty Book Challenge: 54/54

Trying to Get Through:
Samuel Pepys' Diary
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Portrait of a Lady
Penguin Book of Contemp. Am. Essays (M. Howard, ed.)
How to Travel with a Salmon
Good Fairies of New York


Recently Finished:
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The People of Sparks
The City of Ember
The Book Thief
Unfinished Desires
Imagined London
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Collecting Books (M. Tedford & P. Goudey)
The Eloquent Essay
Day by Day Armageddon
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Plot Against America
84, Charing Cross Road
Rosie
Super in the City
The Guy Not Taken
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Heroines
Peter Pan
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of the Island
The Uncommon Reader
The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
Bookends
Gentlemen and Players
Ex Libris
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Pride and Prejudice
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Behind the Attic Wall
A Little Maid of Old New York
Little White Lies
Elusive Childhood
Everyone is Beautiful
A Short History of the French Revolution
The French Revolution: Documents (Mason/Rizzo)
When the King Took Flight
Made to Play House
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
M-80
The Coming of the French Revolution
The Clothes They Stood Up In/The Lady in the Van
Wideacre
Meet Felicity
Felicity Learns a Lesson
Felicity's Surprise
Changes for Felicity
Happy Birthday, Felicity
Felicity Saves the Day
The Constant Princess
1984
The Queen's Fool
The Anglo Files

Next in Line:
Arthur & George
Brideshead Revisited
When You Are Engulfed in Flames

The 2008 Fifty Book Challenge: 53/50
The 2007 Fifty Book Challenge: 40ish/50
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Favorite Books
(a work in progress)
Anne of Green Gables
Peter Pan
Paul Revere's Ride
Rosie
Behind the Attic Wall
The Anglo Files
Ella Enchanted
Writing Down the Bones
Bird by Bird
Everyone is Beautiful
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ragtime
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Lost Boys

In 1931, when the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "The American Dream," he wrote of "a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement." We're still dreaming.

About my libraryMy bookshelves are bowing under the weight of my books, which are crammed in as closely as possible. Great for my mind, horrible for my wallet. (As well as for those poor overstuffed shelves!)

There's a heavy focus on YA and children's lit, and I have a fledgling collection of old kids books. I also buy anything by J.M. Barrie and L.M. Montgomery. History books and biographies take up a lot of space, and for good reason - I like them!

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The first rule of book collecting for any novice should be "Collect, don't merely accumulate." Otherwise, you will end up with an assemblage of unrelated, miscellaneous books. An unconnected group of dissimilar books might make a great reading library, but it doesn't constitute a collection. A good collector makes the connections that link one book to another. By necessity, collections of any sort should be limited and focused, and a good book collection has weight, scope, and narrative. It should tell a story, with each book helping to advance the plot, and in this manner, the whole of the collection becomes worth more than just the sum of its parts.
(From Roger Gozdecki's 'Guide to Book Collecting')

"It's one thing reading novels and dreaming of an exciting life, but quite another thing to actually live it."
(Little White Lies, by Gemma Townley, 263)

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