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Favorite authorsKresley Cole, Diane Price Herndl, Penny Russell, Linda Young (Shared favorites)
About meI'm working on a PhD in history (gentility in colonial Australia).
About my library"Serious" books on women, nineteenth century, illness, etiquette, etc. My library is constantly being updated to reflect my reading.
I wish I had more time to read: Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Kresley Cole, MaryJanice Davidson, John Grisham. For a young audience but still favourites: Christopher Pike, Gordon Korman.
A touch of romance, a comfortable mystery, a good biography, a simple comedy, a well-thought out sci-fi. Oh, heck, if it's shaped like a book I'd like to read it.
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posted by rcss67 at 5:16 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2009
2 different strands of my family originally settled in victoria, one lot from cornwall came out and settled in clunes before heading out here in the 1890s during out big gold rush. another was a scottish sea captain and his jamaican wife, who settled in melbourne in the 1880s and had a child who died there. they came here and he was inspector of teh pearl shell fishing fleet and 20 years shipping master at freo, while she was a famous social worker. now totally forgotten of course
posted by rcss67 at 10:24 pm (EST) on May 28, 2009
posted by rcss67 at 5:04 pm (EST) on May 28, 2009
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive....
(making it public, for all PhD students out there)
posted by CharlesFerdinand at 5:16 am (EST) on May 24, 2009
posted by rcss67 at 6:05 pm (EST) on May 23, 2009
posted by rcss67 at 9:26 pm (EST) on May 22, 2009