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The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 1 by Mickey Spillane
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Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren
Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell
Over The Rainbow, Tales of Fantasy and Imagination by Cathay Books
Crewel Lye (Magic of Xanth) by Piers Anthony
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, And Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson
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Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Herbert, Brian Hodge, Stephen King, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Sylvia Plath, Mickey Spillane, Peter Straub, J. R. R. Tolkien, Margaret Weis, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Mid Rivers, Borders - St. Peters
Favorite librariesSt Charles City-County Library Middendorf-Kredell Branch, St. Louis Public Library - Central Express
About me"So many books, so little time."
I am a LibraryThing Purist - these are only books that I own.
Personal Website:
http://www.classicsandcheese.com
What I've been reading:
http://www.classicsandcheese.com/books/r...
I'm a pretty boring guy. Hobbies include reading, writing, powerlifting, and drinking (not necessarily in that order).
BLOG:
http://classicsandcheese.blogspot.com/
2008 GOAL FINAL STATUS:
At the beginning of 2008, I attempted to not buy any more books until I put a significant dent in the number of books tagged "not read".
Of course, you know, I failed miserably. I purchased 48 "new" books and 20 "used" books for a total of 68 books. I read 40 books for the year. Of those 40 books I read, five were ARCs (supplied mostly by LibraryThing), and six books were either from the library or loaned to me by friends. That leaves 29 books that moved from the "not read" tag to the "read 2008", which leaves me 39-growth in the "own, but not-read" category. Suffice it to say: I went backwards.
2009 GOAL:
The same as last year - put a dent in the "not read" category of owned books. Only buy books to finish out a current series.
2009 NUMBERS AS OF APRIL 30:
I've purchased eight new books and five used books so far for the year.
I've read ten books.
That leaves me at +4 for my Read-More-Than-I-Buy Committment. (still going backwards)
2009 NUMBERS AS OF JUNE 30:
Looks like I'm still moving backwards.
Not counting "reference" tagged books, I purchased a total of 25 new and used books, while only reading 12 from my "not read" tagged pile. A difference of +13.
CURRENT PROJECT:
Participating in the I See Dead People's Books, where I'm part of the team cataloging the library of W. B. Yeats.
About my library"...The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing."
- "Franny and Zooey" J.D. Salinger
To date, I've cataloged nearly 90% of my collection.
Pictures:
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Just to give you an idea of my shelf situation:
- I have six bookcases in my den/study/computer room. Four of them nearly touch the ceiling. The other two are approximately five-feet high.
- I have three bookcases in the spare bedroom. Two nearly touch the ceiling, while the third is slightly higher than waist high (three shelves).
- In the bedroom, I have two bookcases that consist of only two shelves each.
- In the living room, I have one bookcase, shoulder-high with three shelves.
- In the downstairs spare room, I have a twin of the bookcase in the living room.
- Through-out the rest of the house, books are just randomly stacked, i.e., "Hey, there's a clear spot! Put them there!"
Initially my problem was running out of shelf space. Now my problem is that I'm running out of wall space to put new bookcases. I need to buy a bigger house.
Personal Website:
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Jen
posted by jfetting at 9:20 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2009
Jennifer
posted by jfetting at 1:26 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009
posted by 9days at 3:40 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2008
posted by mollishka at 9:04 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2008
posted by Ganeshaka at 7:27 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2008
If you're looking for something great, surprising, and subtle, maybe you could read The Thirteenth Tale next. It's at the top of my best-reads-this-year list :)
posted by amandaellis at 10:35 pm (EST) on Oct 6, 2008
posted by amandaellis at 2:12 am (EST) on Oct 6, 2008
LisaLynne
posted by LisaLynne at 8:30 am (EST) on Oct 5, 2008
I've been using my LT account to track the number of books I've read this year. This means I've also got library books (tagged with my library initials) in my library. I also have given away a lot of my ARCs and Early Reviewer books, but since I need to keep the reviews up, I've got those tagged as given away. What all this means? I am not a LibraryThing purist. But then, I'm not much of a purist about anything, really.
And thanks for the compliment on my little pin-up girl! I collect pin-ups (on one of my other forums, my avatar is always a pin-up of some variety) and I think I've found a new one with a book that I can use for this profile. Can't be too racy, you know. So keep an eye out for a new girl.
Thanks agagin for the kind words about my library...
Lisa
posted by LisaLynne at 10:43 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2008
posted by PhoenixTerran at 10:19 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2008
~Jenny
posted by goddessladyj at 2:33 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2008
posted by tyranist at 10:23 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2008
posted by sussabmax at 5:34 pm (EST) on Apr 30, 2008
posted by sussabmax at 10:30 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2008
posted by amysisson at 9:12 am (EST) on Feb 15, 2008
My proudest cat rescue is Agamemnon, a huge feral tomcat that we trapped. The vet thinks he was about 1 1/2 to 2 years old at the time, and she was the only person who thought we had any chance of socializing him. He was battle-scarred, and scared to death of us. It took a year and a half for him to purr for the first time. Now he runs to great us at the door, can't get enough scritching, and sleeps on our bed when what passes for winter in Houston arrives. (We trapped him in upstate New York, in February, in a year that we'd already had 100 inches of snow!) We trapped a little girl at the same time and assume they're related in some way, but she was much easier to socialize.
Re: Trek, I've gone to Shore Leave every year for the past four years; it's one of the few remaining fan-run Trek conventions, and many of the big-name Trek authors attend every year. I started writing Trek for the Strange New Worlds anthologies, which were run like open-call contests. This past year, I was invited to pitch for the Sky's the Limit anthology. It was my first time getting a contract for a story before I'd written it, and it was pretty intimidating! But it all turned out well.
Re: Hardy Boys, my favorite was The Mystery of the Chinese Junk. But yes, the Three Investigators were much more intelligent, in my opinion. I think most kids who read them got them from the library; I don't think they were marketed in bookstores the same way Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys were.
Those Battletech manuals are my husband's. I've never managed to figure out most games; I can't think ahead more than a move or so, so I'm bad at them. Not long ago, I played Risk for the first time, the Lord of the Rings version. We started the game at 11 p.m. Oops.... we finished at 5:30 a.m. (When you don't have kids, you can still be really immature and stay up all night playing games!)
Can I borrow/steal your tag idea for "books about books"? I like it!
Boy, I write long, wordy comments, don't I?
-- Amy
posted by amysisson at 9:17 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2007
I didn't own most of the Three Investigators books -- I read them at the local public library. I remember some of the details very, very specifically -- esp. Terror Castle, which I think was my favorite. With the Invisible Dog, I remember it was some valuable crystal figurine or statuette, and I think it was hidden in a swimming pool, where it couldn't be seen because it was transparent.
I did own one of the Three Investigators books, which my parents gave me as a gift: Magic Circle. Ironically, that was one of my least favorites in that series, which is why I didn't keep it.
Oh wait, I have since bought a copy of Terror Castle, probably on ebay or abebooks.
The Hardy Boys books we owned -- my sister had some and I had some. I think she gave hers to me, but kept her Nancy Drews.....
Wow, it's easy to get going on the nostalgia thing!
I noticed we have a lot of science fiction in common. I mostly read SF and young adult these days.
Take care,
Amy
posted by amysisson at 6:52 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2007