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Member: Marchbanks

CollectionsYour library (2,319), Currently reading (2), Arts and crafts (212), Austin (23), Biography (105), Buildings and architecture (22), Cartoons and cartoonists (78), Cookery (109), Discworld (41), Fantasy (295), Fine arts (18), Gardening, horticulture, and botany (11), Geography and cartography (25), Great Britain and Ireland (79), History (162), Humor (99), Illustrators (66), Juvenile and YA (337), Language (34), Maryland and Virginia (69), Music (22), Mystery and suspense (135), Religion (43), Russia and Soviet (218), Sciences (10), sf (77), Signed/inscribed (93), Sports and athletics (12), Texana (228), Transportation (17), Travel and exploration (44), Wars, revolutions, and conflicts (44), Wishlist (9), Favorites (14), All collections (2,328)

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Tags20th century (928), American (628), fiction (504), British (224), Texas (214), Texana (213), humor (199), fantasy (180), history (170), 19th century (163) — see all tags

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GroupsAll Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, Austinites, Combiners!, Librarians who LibraryThing, Livejournalers, Texas History

Favorite authorsEdmund Crispin, Robertson Davies, John Graves, A. C. Greene, Leon Hale, Walt Kelly, W. P. Kinsella, Eric Kraft, Larry McMurtry, Spike Milligan, T.R. Pearson, Terry Pratchett, Gertrude Stein, Rex Stout, E. B. White (Shared favorites)

About meI’m a specialized technician (explaining exactly what I do would be both tedious and long), employed by an Enormous Computer Company. I also moonlight at a local ethnic gift shop. At one time or another, I’ve been a bureaucrat, bassist, photographer, writer, bus driver, revenuer, usher, drummer, secretary, librarian’s assistant, disk jockey, book scout, movie projectionist, cemetery researcher, roadie, book dealer, yard-saler, jackleg home DIYer . . . . I’ve a degree in English and a huge miscellany of information on a preposterous number of subjects with which I come out at random, to the astonishment and occasional edification of my acquaintance. I enjoy being mildly eccentric and curmudgeonly, I love traditional and Celtic music, and am a storyteller by disposition. I amuse myself by reading mysteries, some mainstream fiction, some fantasy, biography and history; haunt yard sales for bargains which I re-sell on eBay; work on my home and garden; do counted cross-stitch; collect Texana; brew my own beer; do experimental cookery.

About my libraryI grew up in a house that had a couple of thousand books in it. I also had the run of a good small-town library, where my mother is currently about to celebrate her fiftieth year as director. My wife grew up in a house with many more books than my house had; she claims 4,000. And now, thanks to LT, I know exactly how many are in our house (see above) and what they are.

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Real nameSam

LocationAustin, TX

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Member sinceJan 12, 2008

Currently readingThe diary of Samuel Pepys. A new and complete transcription by Samuel Pepys
They fought for the Motherland : Russia's women soldiers in World War I and the Revolution by Laurie Stoff