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Member: Luxx

CollectionsYour library (1,105), Currently reading (8), To read (31), All collections (1,105)

Reviews100 reviews

TagsClassics (119), Vampire Literature/Fiction/Reference (84), Collectible (59), Kindle E-Books (58), Childrens (56), Shakespeare (56), Young Adult (53), Science Fiction/Fantasy (48), YA Horror (44), English Texts 19th-Century (44) — see all tags

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Groups100 Books Challenge for 2009, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, I'll Read Yours if You'll Read Mine, Literary Snobs, Name that Book, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)

Favorite authorsOscar Wilde (Shared favorites)

About meHello, my name is Luxx. Sometimes.

I'm a big nerd, living the life I've always dreamed of. My partner is the love of my life, I have a job I adore, a monster of a toddler whose smiles can right all wrongs, and a newborn who is king of all wild things. I go to bed happy every night. It's a great feeling.



"I wish you joy o'th' worm" - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2.270.

"The world must be peopled!" - Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

"Everybody goes down well with beer." - "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd.

"That a man who has sons brings up chickens for his own table ... whereas daughters are chickens brought up for the tables of other men." - Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (77).

"I like my coffee black, just like my metal." - MSI "Shut Me Up"

"Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying/And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun." - John Cougar Mellencamp "Authority Song"

About my libraryThe tags I use to organize my catalog reflect the actual organization of my books, which currently take up about 18 feet of my living room wall. Many of my current books come from being a lit student for the past 5.5 years, and still more come from my obsessive desire to collect and keep. I enjoy collecting several editions of the same text (for example, the complete works of Shakespeare and Poe), and am a sucker for "pretty" publications. I'm more likely to purchase books than ever set foot in a public library, although I've spent my fair share of time in college libraries. In the end, I guess my library is a combined manifestation of my OCD and personal interests ... but I like it that way.

Of course, I'm not the only reader in the house. Here's the rest of the crew:
Mish
Brooks
Max

Works read this year: 125/100
75 Book Challenge

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Real nameLuxx

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Common KnowledgeSeries (181), Awards (242), Characters (4251), Places (676)

Member sinceJan 5, 2007

Currently readingDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong
Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) by Seamus (trans.) Heaney
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
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