Member: alarob

CollectionsYour library (883), Jane's library (60), Currently reading (4), Dissertation (6), Giveaways (17), Read but unowned (9), To read (3), Wishlist (36), All collections (960)

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Tagshistory (322), fiction (148), JH (133), U.S. (116), novel (114), religion (107), U.S. South (75), deutsch (65), American Indians (60), 19th century (52) — see all tags

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GroupsBirmingham Alabama, Deep South, Graduate Students, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, ISLAM, Native/First Nations Literatures & Studies, Non-Fiction Readers, The Middle East, We of the Laptop

Favorite authorsKathryn E. Holland Braund, Bertolt Brecht, Bill Bryson, Patricia Kay Galloway, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Judson Mitcham, Iain Pears, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne, Richard White (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAlabama Booksmith, Eclipse Coffee and Books, Gnu's Room, Greencup Books, Jim Reed Books / Museum of Fond Memories, Little Professor Book Center - Homewood

Favorite librariesAuburn University (Ralph Brown Draughon Library), Friends of Homewood Public Library Bookstore, Robert W. Woodruff Library (Emory University), Roddenbery Memorial Library

About meGrad student in history, way down in Alabama. Research will be taking me to Basel, Switzerland, and throughout the eastern U.S. My wife teaches English literature and our home libraries have merged.

About my libraryYou'll find a lot of history, dozens of books in German, quite a few on Islam, and a whole bunch about southeastern American Indians. Most of the fiction is my wife's, along with a fine Quaker history collection. I've collected several old paperbacks full of shrill warnings about the communist menace; it's a hobby. (These are tagged "Red Menace.")

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Real nameRob Collins

LocationBirmingham, Alabama, USA

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Member sinceDec 28, 2007

Currently readingA History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
Beginning Creek: Mvskoke Emponvkv by Pamela Joan Innes
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) by Daniel Walker Howe
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver