Member: alcottacre

CollectionsNeed to Buy (10), Your library (3,594), Read but unowned (193), Currently reading (11), To read (814), Wishlist (21), Favorites (11), All collections (3,799)

Reviews24 reviews

TagsSeries Romance (712), Historical Romance (405), Police/Detective (240), Cozy Mystery (220), General Fiction (179), Audiobook (164), Contemporary Romance (135), Paranormal Romance (130), Romantic Suspense (116), Fantasy (103) — see all tags

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Groups40-Something Library Thingers, 75 Books Challenge for 2008, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Amateur Historians, Ancient History, Barbara Pym Fan Club, Bestsellers over the Years, Book Care and Repair, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Books on Books — show all groups , Cozy Mysteries, Disaster Buffs, His Wondrous Works to Behold, Military History, Non-Fiction Readers, Outlander: Gabaldon's series about Jamie and Claire, Tea!, Trollope lovers unite or fight

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Charlotte Brontë, Geraldine Brooks, Bill Bryson, Willa Cather, Cara Colter, Charles Dickens, David Eddings, Anne Fadiman, Christine Feehan, Diana Gabaldon, Steven Galloway, Martin Gilbert, Thomas Hardy, Tony Horwitz, Alex Kershaw, Jayne Ann Krentz, Lynn Kurland, Mark Kurlansky, Erik Larson, C. S. Lewis, William Manchester, W. Somerset Maugham, Nora Roberts, Nevil Shute, Mary Stewart, Anthony Trollope, Barbara W. Tuchman (Shared favorites)

About me

Not a whole lot to say: I have been happily married for 21 years to a great guy who puts up with my book buying with good grace. We have 2 daughters at home: Beth (jade605), who is 19, and Catey (fantasia655), who just turned 18. We are a home schooling family. Beth is currently preparing for her GED and Catey is working on completing her high school diploma.

I work a part-time job 30 hours a week and thoroughly enjoy my job.

I do not sleep a whole lot. I do, however, read a whole lot.

About my libraryMy January thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/51105

My February thread is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/56421

My March thread is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/58749

My April thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/61444

My May thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/63947

My June thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/65874

My July thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/67964

My August thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/70159

My September thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/72211

My October thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/74345

My November thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/76166

Sometimes, while she was asleep, she read books in distant libraries. - The Hummingbird's Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea

To the whole world you may be just one person, but to one person you may just be the whole world.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. - No idea who said it, but I love it!

". . .there is indeed a heaven on Earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book." - The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley

"To bring the dead to life
Is no great magic.
Few are wholly dead:
Blow on a dead man's embers
And a live flame will start." - Robert Graves

"I feel, holding the books, accomodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them." -The Girls, Lori Lansens

"[He] was seated beside her with a pocket edition of some classic author in his hand. He never went anywhere without some companion wherewith to improve his leisure moments: all time seemed lost that was not devoted to study . . ." - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

"In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired." - The Way

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." - Abraham Lincoln

"Your library is your paradise." - Erasmus

"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never." - Wallace Stevens

"I found that my mind wanted something craggy to break upon." George Gordon, Lord Byron

"A peace offering to a hungry mind" - Hope Summerall Chamberlain

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence, from the suppressed introductory chapter of Seven Pillars of Wisdom



The majority of books I read come from my local public library system and so are not reflected in my personal library, which contains only the books I actually own. My library is very eclectic. I just find a lot of things to be interesting, so I read all over the map. All the books I have catalogued are books I actually own. A lot of my books are not catalogued as I finally got them out of storage (after 3 years!) when we moved and unfortunately, I do not have shelves to put them on, so they are still boxed in my garage.

A word about the great number of romance novels I have catalogued - this collection of romances began as a project that my mother and I could do together. She is a big romance reader (I really am not although I do enjoy one occasionally), but it gave us a chance to spend some time together and for her to get out of her house on occasion. We enjoyed working on it together and of course, we loved the book buying! Since we began the collection, she has since divorced my father and moved away to East Texas. I keep the books, most of which remain unread, as a reminder of the fun we had collecting them together. My youngest daughter (now 18) dips into them every now and again.

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