Member: SRHarbin
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About meI'm presently a school counselor, former history teacher who still has an abiding interest in history and politics, especially anything to do with presidential history and leadership. I also enjoy certain mystery series and old pulp writers such as Robert E. Howard, Hugh B. Cave, H. P. Lovecraft and others.
I enjoy my job, but if I had it to do over again I would have pursued library science and/or graduate degrees in history, which I may still do after I retire from my present job.
Besides my books I enjoy movies and spending time with my family.
About my libraryI'm a recovering biblio-addict (I think that's the right term) who now goes to the library most of the time instead of the bookstore. I still have more books than is probably reasonable, but I've always wanted a large library ever since I read about Thomas Jefferson's when I was a kid. Besides the history, biography, and political stuff there's sports, especially football and track, pulp fiction from the 30's, 40's and 50's. Also mystery series galore. Some science fiction, fantasy, and classics. I love humorous writers, such as P. G. Wodehouse, Janet Evanovich, and Dave Barry.
As you would expect from an educator I also have a lot of volumes on education, teaching, and counseling.
Groups Weird Tales Magazine, 18th-19th Century Britain, 50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, Adventure Classics, Atlanta Bibliophiles, Ballantine Adult Fantasy, Cthulhu Mythos, Fans of Russian authors, FantasyFans —show all groups, Flashman and Fraser, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, History Readers: Clio's (Pleasure?) Palace, History: On learning from and writing history, Legacy Libraries, New York Review Books, Pulp Fiction, Radical History, Robert E Howard Appreciation Group, The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c, The Weird Tradition, Voices of the People's History, Weird Fiction
Favorite authorsMilton Bass, Elif Batuman, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michelle Brattain, Fredric Brown, Alafair Burke, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Branch Cabell, Norman F. Cantor, Raymond Chandler, Ron Chernow, Kathleen Dalton, David Brion Davis, Janet Evanovich, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, George MacDonald Fraser, Bonnie Gillespie, Ursula K. Le Guin, Dashiell Hammett, Don Herron, Chester Himes, Robert E. Howard, Zora Neale Hurston, George F. Kennan, Russell Kirk, Henry Kuttner, Harold Lamb, Fritz Leiber, David Levering Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, H. P. Lovecraft, Alison Mackie, Manly Wade Wellman, James M. McPherson, Cora Miller, Walter Mosley, Larry Niven, Stephen B. Oates, Barack Obama, Patricia O'Toole, Stanley C. Sargent, Charles R. Saunders, Steven Saylor, Kenneth M. Stampp, Ernest Tidyman, Richard Tierney, Barbara W. Tuchman, Jack Vance, Karl Edward Wagner, Donald Wandrei, Howard Wandrei, Manly Wade Wellman, P. G. Wodehouse, C. Vann Woodward, Paul Zimmerman, Howard Zinn (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites
Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Newnan, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Southlake, Books-A-Million #751 at The Avenue at Peachtree City
Favorite librariesA. Mitchell Powell Jr. Public Library, Clayton County Public Library - Jonesboro Branch, Coweta Public Library
Homepagehttp://www.coachhollywood67.blogspot.com
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Real nameSteven R. Harbin
LocationGeorgia
Emailcoachhollywood67
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Member sinceJun 9, 2006
Currently readingBeyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick
A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976 (Library of Alabama Classics) by Gordon E. Harvey
The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth by Matthew Algeo
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Unheard Cries (Volume 1) by Joyce Mitchell
1776 by David McCullough
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)) by John Ferling
Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter
The Complete John Thunstone by Manly Wade Wellman
Who Fears the Devil (Planet Stories (Paizo Publishing)) [Paperback] by Manly Wade Wellman
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I was in contact with you on a list somewhere, and now I found you here on LibraryThing. Wanna link up?
Cheers
leigh
posted by 666777 at 7:12 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2009
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Thanks for finding something of interest in my library; I never tire of the ego-boost:)
Our biggest shared interest would appear to be some of Karl Edward Wagner's works (love those Kane short-stories, I have to say. I can live without the novels).
Looking at your list of favorite authors, you may want to check out the library of my friend jackanaples. I think you two have pretty similar reading interests.
Take it easy,
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 9:40 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2008
posted by paradoxosalpha at 1:24 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2007
posted by lesliej at 4:55 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2006