Member: BrigidsBlest

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About meLifelong biblioholic. 44, married, 3 kids. Owned by 5 cats. B.A. in English (Lit) and B.S. in Criminal Justice.

Life's too short to read bad books.

As of 3/22/08, I am also a paid, published author, having done freelance work for White Wolf Games and having seen my first paranormal/erotic romance novella released by Pink Petal Books.

I have recently begun writing book reviews for the site The Discriminating Fangirl, under the name The Bibliomaniac. My reviews can be found here: http://www.thediscriminatingfangirl.com/author/bibliomaniac/

About my libraryI'm finished cataloguing my collection. My library is heavy on fantasy, horror, thrillers/suspense/ mysteries, nonfiction (criminology, psychology, history, religion, anthropology, archaeology, sociology), poetry, humor...well, you get the idea. There isn't much I don't like to read about.

I've read (links will only work for members of my LiveJournal friends' list):

103 books from July-December 2004 (when I first started counting them)
213 books in 2005
198 books in 2006
155 books in 2007
293 books in 2008
183 books in 2009
181 books in 2010
65 books in 2011
65 books in 2012

Total: 1456 books in 8.5 years (which would average out to about 172 books a year, I'd guess)

Books read so far in 2013:

1) For Heaven's Eyes Only, Simon R. Green (1/4 - 1/5)
2) Pogo: Through the Wild Blue Yonder - The Complete Syndicated Strips, Volume 1, Walt Kelly. (1/9)
3) Dark Gods, T.E.D. Klein (1/11)
4) Midnight Movie, Tobe Hooper & Alan Goldsher. (1/16)
5) The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King. (1/16 - 1/17)
6) The Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan. (1/17 - 1/22)
7) More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Alvin Schwartz. (1/22)
8) Bearing an Hourglass, Piers Anthony (1/28)
9) The Fall, Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan. (1/30)
10) The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (2/7)
11) The Night Eternal, Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan. (2/18)
12) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, Edited by Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg.
13) Chicks Dig Time Lords, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Tara O'Shea.
14)Drowning Rapunzel, Annette Gisby. (Manuscript for work.)
15) Deep Waters, Andrea Rose-Wulf. (Manuscript for work.)
16) Borderland Bride, Samantha Holt. (Manuscript for work.)
17) No Little Thing, Sonya Carver. (Manuscript for work.)
18) Blown Away, Andrea Rose-Wulf. (Manuscript for work.)
19) Borderland Beauty, Samantha Holt. (Manuscript for work.)
20) Dwelling on the Threshold: Reflections of a Spirit-Worker and Devotional Polytheist, Sarah Kate Istra Winter.
21) Blood Possession, Brandy Roark. (Manuscript for work.)
22) A Sunset Finish, Melinda Moore. (Manuscript for work.)

GroupsDruidry, Fairy Tale Readers, Fairy Tales Retold, Folklorists who LibraryThing, From Avalon to Tir Na Nog, Irish & Celtic Studies, Irish Mythology, Mythology, Pagan Knowledge, Pagans inc —show all groups, Shamanism, The Hellenistic World, The Witches of LibraryThing, World Religions

Favorite authorsIsaac Adamson, Robert Asprin, Margaret Atwood, Nancy Baker, Gael Baudino, Holly Black, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Joe Bob Briggs, Poppy Z. Brite, Jan Brunvand, Emma Bull, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, P. C. Cast, Mark Chadbourn, Simon Clark, Nancy A. Collins, Susan Cooper, Mary Daly, Ellen Datlow, Pamela Dean, Vine Deloria, John E. Douglas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrea Dworkin, David Eddings, Harlan Ellison, Warren Ellis, Susan Faludi, Kenneth C. Flint, Neil Gaiman, Craig Shaw Gardner, Christopher Golden, Charles L. Grant, Simon R. Green, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, Sarah A. Hoyt, Tanya Huff, Ronald Hutton, Molly Ivins, Diana Wynne Jones, Karl Kerenyi, Peg Kerr, Stephen King, T. E. D. Klein, Katherine Kurtz, Mercedes Lackey, Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen R. Lawhead, Tanith Lee, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Charles de Lint, Morgan Llywelyn, H. P. Lovecraft, Gregory Maguire, Melissa Marr, George R. R. Martin, Graham Masterton, Julian May, Robert McCammon, Sharyn McCrumb, Robin McKinley, O. R. Melling, Alan Moore, Christopher Moore, C. E. Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, Jack Olsen, Elaine Pagels, Diana L. Paxson, Elizabeth Peters, Ellis Peters, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Preston, Cherie Priest, Seabury Quinn, Phil Rickman, Spider Robinson, J. K. Rowling, Fred Saberhagen, Harold Schechter, John Shirley, Michael Slade, Nancy Springer, S. M. Stirling, Whitley Strieber, Thomas Burnett Swann, Judith Tarr, Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Berresford Ellis, Harry Turtledove, Douglas Ubelaker, Joan D. Vinge, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Manly Wade Wellman, F. Paul Wilson, Terri Windling, Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Jane Yolen, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresAmazing Fantasy Books & Comics - Calumet City, Amazing Fantasy Books & Comics - Frankfort, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Merrillville, Borders - Highland, Borders - Merrillville, Myopic Books, Remarkable Book Shop, Sanctuary Crystals, The Book Cellar, The Occult Bookstore

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Member sinceJan 17, 2006