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Member: ReneeMarie

Library520 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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TagsFiction (16), 19th Century (15), Classic (10), UK Literature (9), History (8), 18th Century (7), Scribbling Women (5) — see all tags

Groups18th Century British Literature, 18th-19th Century Britain, Almack's, Amateur Historians, American Civil War, American History, Doctor Who, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries, History Readers: Clio's (Pleasure?) Palace — show all groups , I Love Jane Austen, Medieval Europe, Military History

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Mary Balogh, Wilkie Collins, Bernard Cornwell, Georgette Heyer, Carla Kelly, Laura Kinsale, Ted Kooser, Anne McCaffrey, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pamela Morsi, Maggie Osborne, Wilfred Owen, Ellis Peters, William Shakespeare, LaVyrle Spencer, Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, Charles Todd, Connie Willis (Shared favorites)

About me I work at a bookstore and as a costumed interpreter at a living history museum. I facilitate 3 book groups (send out monthly meeting date reminders and keep track of titles). One group reads historical fiction, another classics (fairly loosely defined), and the third reads books to help us as museum interpreters. I also wanted to be in a writing group, so I started one.

As you can tell by my picture, I am a fan of J. W. Waterhouse. Because my books outnumber my bookcases, I have room on my walls for posters by him, Albert Moore, Frederick Leighton, etc. In addition to Pre-Raphaelite art, I love international music (check out Songlines magazine as a great review source), classic movies, and dance.

About my library I primarily own works of history (military, women's, 19th century, etc.), historical fiction (including mystery and romance), and classics. In general I prefer fantasy to science fiction, but I do have works of science nonfiction in my library. I have 50+ how-to-write books, some of which I've actually read. I worked in desktop publishing for 9 years and to help with that job I acquired books on training, knowledge management, technical communication, markup languages, and software applications.

I sometimes buy books based on beautiful covers. Also on size -- big, fat history books catch my eye every time. In addition to learning about books in bricks-and-mortar and online stores, and on listservs, I read _Publishers Weekly_ (at the library now that it's no longer on newsstands) and _Romantic Times Book Reviews_ magazines. Although it has ceased print publication, you can find Civil War Book Review online. And I get in all kinds of trouble by reading notes and bibliographies in books I already own, leading me to more titles I must acquire.

As of late April 2008 I have maybe 10% of my library catalogued here. All books listed I do actually own, with the exception of a few library books read for groups. My wishlist is in a 5-subject notebook (two sections for fiction, two for non-fiction, and one for magazine articles & dissertations).

Tags in progress, if slowly. I'm reimporting books originally entered using Amazon as a data source and adding tags as I go. Personal LT wiki page probably to come, although empty now. (I just wanted a direct link from my profile page.)

Feel free, if you stumble across my library, to leave me a comment telling me how you arrived here. In case you don't care to leave a comment, the map will serve as my guestbook.
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Real nameRenee

LocationSoutheastern Wisconsin, U.S.A.

EmailReneeMarieLTyahoo.com

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/ReneeMarie (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ReneeMarie (library)

Member sinceMar 29, 2008