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Member: Pawcatuck

CollectionsYour library (241)

Reviews241 reviews

Tagsfiction (58), biography (20), African-American (10), SF (9), science fiction (9), France (8), Christianity (8), business (7), Connecticut (7), Native American (6) — see all tags

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GroupsBestsellers over the Years, Christianity, Name that Book, Pro and Con, Progressive & Liberal!, Reading Globally, Travel and Exploration literature

Favorite authorsAlma Guillermoprieto, Oliver Sacks (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBank Square Books, Other Tiger

Favorite librariesOtis Library, Stonington Free Library

About meI was born at a very young age. I went to a gigantic university and took up a major in comparative literature, but along the way I decided that a school of any kind was probably the last place I wanted to spend my life, so I switched my major to, uh, well, beer. After a long and mediocre career in administration, I've spent several years as a data processor for a dictionary.

I've kept a book journal off and on for quite a long time. Eventually I'll get it loaded onto Library Thing (the parts I can find, anyway), but among my other magnificent personal qualities, I'm lazy, so it'll probably take me a long time unless I get on an obsessive tear. (Just try being lazy and obsessive at the same time. It's really hard work!)

My interests are all over the place. I know a little about a lot, a lot about a little, and not really enough about anything.

I maintained a science fiction Web page for several years as well as a regional-interest blog for about eighteen months. Some of my reviews -- especially the longer or peppier ones -- are pillaged from there.

That's our dog in the picture. She's a rescue; we found her on Petfinder. Ain't she a sweetie?

About my libraryI've always had a tendency to accumulate tons of books, dump many of them when I've had to move or just felt overwhelmed, and start accumulating again. When I moved to the present digs, I had more room than I was used to ("What is this basement of which you speak?") and started replacing them; I went to library sales and bought copies (often pretty scroungy ones) of every book that I had once owned, or every book that I wished I owned, or every book that looked interesting, or...if you're reading this, you know what I mean.

Now I'm dispersing them again, usually to my church or a library for their fundraisers. My Library Thing catalog won't ever quite match my actual book collection; in fact, it already doesn't.

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Real nameEddie

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Common KnowledgeSeries (13), Awards (46), Characters (49), Places (55)

Member sinceMay 12, 2007