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About meYou may know me better as MidnightRain, my original username here at LibraryThing. I switched to BookishRuth in 2008 to coordinate with my book review blog at BookishRuth.com. Come say hello!

If I had to choose a Disney character to sum up my life, Belle from Beauty and the Beast would fit the bill quite nicely: A free spirit with endless curiosity and a voracious appetite for books. (The fact that she ended up with a library bigger than my house has absolutely nothing to do with it. Okay, maybe a little bit...)

About my library"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one." -- Augustine Birrell

I have fairly eclectic taste in reading material, and my library tends to reflect that. My high school English courses instilled a great love for the classics; a love which only seems to grow as time goes on. I love a good mystery; Sherlock Holmes, Mary Russell, Miss Marple and Amelia Peabody are old friends. Young adult and children's literature never fails to take me back to the joyous summers of my youth, which were always filled with reading. Movie and television tie-in novels (especially Doctor Who related books) are a not-so-guilty pleasure. My thirst for science fiction started at the age of 13, after reading Sphere by Michael Crichton. It's a thirst that will never be quenched. My love of history -- specifically ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, colonial America and Victorian England -- often makes me wonder if I happened to be born in the time period.

My wish list often competes in size with my actual library. Somehow I think this will always be the case, no matter how many books find their way from the wish list to the library.

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Hi Ruth,

Thanks for reading it!

Dale

posted by terrypin at 5:31 am (EST) on Jul 2, 2009

Hi Ruth,
I am a huge fan of lighthouses and I see from your blog that you read lots of books with a lighthouse setting. Thanks for reviewing them, as I will be checking some of them out really soon! My husband and I have many lighthouse pictures on the east coast, and some in California and several in Hawaii that we have taken.

posted by caroline123 at 8:18 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

Re: Persuasion: wonderful to read it this year! Let me know what you think.

posted by atheist_goat at 8:55 am (EST) on Dec 23, 2008

"It is only in the intentional silence of vigil and meditation, or in the quiet places of nature, that we encounter the song of the universe. Like the wind through the telegraph wires, this song echoes along the pathways of the cosmic web: it includes the celestial spinning of the planets, as well as the hum of insects and the dancing song of the grass; it includes the song of all the ancestors and spirits as well as the beating of our own hearts."

Caitlin Matthews

posted by theoldman at 12:11 pm (EST) on Dec 18, 2008

If I ever get around to adding anything to it!

posted by stephreviewerx at 12:33 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2008

Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your Interesting Libraries. Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 2:47 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2008

You're very welcome, just glad I could help out! Book will be on its way to you tomorrow. x

posted by Tiare at 4:37 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2008

Hi--I noticed that you and a few others here on LT have the book Against Medical Advice. I was wondering how you got a copy? Most of the tags say Publishers Weekly, I signed up for the daily newsletter a few weeks ago, never received it, and now am left to wonder if I should have pursued it. I couldn't find any ARC's on their website, so I think I'm looking in the wrong place. I sent an email to the publisher the first week in Aug. as a cold request but never got a response. Dang it...I really wanted to read it. I tried a cold request for The Gate House too, in fact, I sent in two a couple of weeks apart. Again, I never heard. If you have any suggestions for what I'm doing wrong that everyone else is doing right, I'd really really appreciate them!

Thanks!

Kelly
(The Optimistic Bookfool)

posted by NovelBookworm at 1:47 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2008

Hi: I know you are going to like them. Please let me know what you think! Its so funny, I thought I was the only one who had "seasonal moods" when it comes to reading.

I am plodding my way through the new Kathy Reichs. Its an ARC I have to review and it is sooooo slow going - I can't wait to finish it to get to some of my other books.

Enjoy! TINA

posted by Nitestar at 6:43 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2008

Thank you so much Ruth, I've just received The Necklace, and the card is lovely too. I look forward to reading this.I've been reading your blog and like it very much, although I just realized that when I came here and saw your picture. You're Bookish Ruth! It will take me some time to match online names with blogs or names. Thanks again.

posted by posthumose at 6:28 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2008

Hey, I just reserved "The Good Thief" for you on BM. My username there is the same as here. I can't send it out until I get my review written, but that should be sometime this week.

posted by DevourerOfBooks at 11:44 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2008

I'm so glad! I went ahead and paid the extra money to send it priority because I know media mail can take forever.

I am sure you'll enjoy it :)

posted by lenoreva at 4:28 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2008

Hi: I would be happy to. My absolute favorites. Start with the book Deviant Ways - by Chris Mooney - this book had me at the first chapter and kept me there.

Also, ANYTHING by PJ Parrish is excellent. I also like ANYTHING by William Tapply - although he would be a little more mystery than thriller.

I also really love James Patterson and his Alex Cross series. I don't like any of Patterson's other series, but the Alex Cross are the best.

I hope I have helped you a little. Please let me know if you end up reading any of these - I would love to know what you think. TINA

posted by Nitestar at 4:24 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2008

Sherlock Holmes: The Montana Chronicles
[An Opened Grave: Sherlock Holmes Investigates His Ultimate Case]
[Holmes and Watson: A Miscellany (Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes Library)]
[Baker Street Studies (Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes Library)]
[The Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes]
[Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures]
[Sherlock Holmes and the Yule-Tide Mystery]
[Sherlock Holmes Handbook]
[Sherlock Holmes London]
[Holmes and Watson]
[Sherlock Holmes in London: A Photographic Record of COnan Doyle's Stories]
[Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes]
[Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders: From the American Chronicles of JOhn H. Watson, M.D.]

posted by JPB at 2:01 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008

You seem to be a Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie fan! I am a Sherlock Holmes nutter, and I am also fond of Christie's work... (I like Marpole more than Perot, tho')

Since you also (from your profile) like Victorian England, I would encourage you to try to get your hands on a copy of William Baring-Gould's Annotated Sherlock Holmes - he goes into GREAT DETAIL on all the elements of Victorian life that we would no longer understand as we read the stories. There is a newer set of annotated Holmes, that is also quite good, but the two really don't "overlap" all that much in what they cover, but B-G goes into far more fascinating detail about life in Victorian times - you also get an excellent selection of illustrations in these. A link to used copies of the Baring-Gould on Amazon appears here (unfortunately, the B-G is no longer in print): HERE

posted by JPB at 4:51 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2008

Hi!
I'm new to LibraryThing and still trying to figure out how everything works! But I just discovered that you and I share a high amount of favorite authors, and I just wanted to say Hello.
Happy reading,
Angela

posted by amwmsw04 at 10:39 pm (EST) on May 24, 2008

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