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CollectionsYour library (1,916), Wishlist (10), Currently reading (12), To read (630), All collections (1,925)

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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Terry Pratchett, Spider Robinson, Jan Siegel, Gene Wolfe (Shared favorites)

About meI'm a public librarian who was way too excited for my own good when I found out about librarything. I was a strange kid--I tried to put Dewey numbers on my own books. I'd prefer to work in cataloging or tech services, but alas, I am a Reference librarian!

About my libraryIt's very odd. I have had three great book purges in my life. The first one was when I was leaving 6th grade. I left my "babyish" books there. The second was when I reluctantly realized I couldn't keep all the books I scored when my college English department collectively discarded about 50 boxes of books. The third is in progress, so that my husband, who has even more books than me, can finally bring over his collection from his Dad's house. We have several hundred books to input, so this may take some time. I have lots of Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Doctor Who, and recently, tarot & various other occult things, since all things secret and forbidden and fantastic have always fascinated me. ("Occult" means "hidden", by the way, not "evil", in case you haven't ever looked it up.) You'll also find things from the childish and silly to the tasteless and heretical. Sorry--I'm an omnivore. I read everything! (When will Tim & co let us add the food packages and milk carton brands we've read, I wonder?)

I own or have owned many of the book listed here. Books tagged gave away, read work's copy, borrowed, and to borrow are things I don't own. Due to space and money issues, I can't necessarily buy and keep with me books that I really enjoyed, even though I'd love to. I can keep them with me here instead, all the books I loved and hated, where they can reveal to others my actual reading patterns, versus my buying-and-never-quite-getting-to patterns.

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Thanks for your comment! I love Spider Robinson, have since I was a wee lass and read my first Callahan novel. A highly underrated novelist in an overrated field.

Thanks for reading the blog, too.

posted by maughta at 5:08 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2008

Loved your comment re milk cartons and food packages! It makes me think there should be a way to add the road sign I saw a couple of years ago, "Unwanted Appliances Wanted". I nearly drove off the road trying to parse that one.
I must applaud your taste in Black Stallion books! Unfortunately my two teenage girls weren't even remotely interested in reading mine. Who would have thought?

posted by webecca at 10:56 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2007

Thanks for your comment on my profile page. My icon is a drawing by Dutch artist Francien van Westering. It combines two of my favourite 'things': cats and witchcraft! :-)
I found your library in the list with members who share my books, we have 31 in common. I added you to my list of interesting libraries.

posted by Tinkerbell-NL at 4:34 am (EST) on Aug 15, 2007

You are the only other person with a copy of the book, The Alchemyst: The Immortal Secrets of Nicholas Flamel. I got an advance review copy from my local library. I must say you sound like an interesting person. Yay librarians! Have you seen the Librarian Action Figure?

posted by keezingpenguin at 2:24 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2007

English department clearance? Sweet. The local library Eugene, where I went to college, has a annual book sale that I'm sure is one of the largest in the Northwest. Thousands and thousands of great books, no more than a dollar each. I had to start limiting myself when my dorm room closet ran out of space. Then I got an apartment and the space problem went away. Then another sale came along. You see where this is going.

Anyway, nice library. Happy cataloging.

posted by coffeezombie at 10:05 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2006

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