LibraryThing Author: Amy Sisson

About me I am a writer, book reviewer, librarian, and cat rescuer, not necessarily in that order. My short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and two of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies. I also currently have a story in The Sky's the Limit, an anthology from Pocket Books celebrating the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, published in October 2007. I am a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop (class of 2000). Hobbies include making art trading cards, learning Japanese, and trying to recover my long-lost German fluency.

About my library My physical library consists primarily of science fiction and fantasy, young adult fiction, children's books, and girls' career romance novels from the 1930s to the 1960s.

I hope this doesn't make me a bad Library Thinger, but I have been including books (identified with tags as such) that I either no longer own, or that I have read but do not own. I'm a librarian, so I'm all about information and data. And I cannot bear to lose the information about books I've read, just because I don't have the physical book in hand anymore. You may notice I've gone a little crazy with the descriptive tags, but they're my favorite thing about LT -- well, that and the covers.

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Member sinceMar 1, 2007

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thanks for the headphones!

Yes, we don't overlap much, do we? The books I have tagged "Japan" have to do with the country in some way, but I'm not up to reading serious Japanese, so they are almost all in English. I haven't bothered to catalog most of my language textbooks, cookbooks and travel guides, as I tend to regard them more as tools than as books. Now that I've written that, it seems an odd distinction to have made. hmm.

posted by Nycticebus at 11:49 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2008

Thanks for the support in that librarian thread, Amy. Now that I've ranted, I feel better. So, um, can I see some headphones too? :}

posted by Nycticebus at 10:10 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2008

I notice you're in need of a cover for The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes (and you had tagged it to check author and title - now you have that too;). All the editions look pretty much the same so I daresay you can use the cover image from mine. The Witch's Daughter as well - it may not be the correct cover, but it's quite a nice one.

posted by muumi at 1:00 am (EST) on Mar 22, 2008

Hi Amy,Yes, that's the same Stockton College. My daughter is now attending for her junior year in Criminal Justice. It's so funny because she is about 5 feet tall and weighs a whopping 105 lbs, but she has the right attitude for being a crime fighter. We hope she can be a lawyer or in some kind of forensics. That's what she wants too. I loved going there and was just invited back for the end of semester Bash as an alumna. I hope to see some familiar faces there. I am very interested in your collection of career girl books. It reminds me of reading when I was younger. I always lived near a library and I remember reading that type of book. I came across a box of unique sci-fi paperbacks that have another book on the flip-side, so it has a cover on each end. I got the whole box for about 10.00.There were some other classics in there too, Isaac Asomov and Robert Heinlein,etc,probably not worth much but the flip side paperbacks were definitely something I had not seen before.

posted by mmignano11 at 4:31 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2008

Amy,
I actually had one LTer tell me that he didn't like covers -- they were too distracting and he deleted the option from his catalog. As for me, I love looking at them! Let me know if you add any for the more obscure books we might share.
Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 7:58 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2008

Hello Amy,
Since you like to add covers for your books like I do, here's some we share that now have covers: The Scarlet Flower, Third Book of Junior Authors, More Junior Authors, Pastoral, The Checquer Board, An Old Captivity. Of course they may not be your exact covers, but they are possibilities anyway.
(yet another) Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 10:24 am (EST) on Mar 14, 2008

Amy -- I did receive Dreamers of the Day on Monday. Read it on Tuesday, sending it back to you today. Should go First Class, so you should have it back first of next week.

The book was amazing! I really love all her work. I was fortunate to find out that she will be in Washington, DC on March 24th, to spead, read and discuss Dreamers. I can't wait to attend!

Thanks again for your generosity.

Amy

posted by aglassmd at 11:04 am (EST) on Feb 28, 2008

Amy - Would you be willing to loan me your advanced copy of Mary Doria Russell's Dreamers of the Day? I promised I will treat it like it was my own, and will read it and return it to you promptly. I'll even pay for postage.

Please think about it and let me know. I don't think I can wait until March to read it!

Sincerely,

Amy Glass
aglassmd
aglass "at" "jhu[dot]edu"

posted by aglassmd at 1:50 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2008

Thank you so much for the compliment on my review of [i]Dreamers of the Day.[/i] Like you I avoid reading any other reviews before I write mine, so I worry that I've said the same things everyone else has said. I enjoyed your review, too, and it reminded me that I forgot to say something about Rosie the dachsund! I'm glad you did. Incidentally, I've enjoyed looking at your Career Romance collection.

posted by betsytacy at 9:43 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2008

I did know that The Somnabulist was going to be coming in manuscript form. It's not encouraged, but because we had asked the publisher for *extra* copies of that particular book (since it was so popular), they sent what they had. Sorry for the inconvenience - we assumed it was better than not getting the book at all :)

posted by ablachly at 12:28 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2008

Dreamers of the Day was from a batch last month - and they're starting to come in the mail soon, so be looking for it! The message you got today was from the most recent (December) batch.

Abby

posted by ablachly at 5:28 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2007

I am sooo jealous of your American career romance books. Where do you get them all?

posted by urduha at 1:55 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2007

Of course you can "borrow/steal" the "book about books" tag - it's half yours anyway since it was inspired by a book in your collection.

I don't know that I ever had one favorite Hardy Boys book, but I do remember the first one I ever bought and read was The Haunted Fort (#44). Funny thing is that up until adulthood, I thought Franklin W. Dixon was a real person and I would sometimes wonder if he was still alive with plans to write more books.

I never read any Nancy Drew, mainly because it was uncool for a boy to read her books, and it would have gotten me beat up. Ah, the duality of gender... It was perfectly acceptable for girls to read the Hardy Boys, but a boy had better not be caught dead with a Nancy Drew.

And there is nothing wrong with long, wordy comments - it gives me something to read and spurs my own written comments.

-- Michael

posted by Michael_P at 11:11 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2007

I read The Three Investigators at my school library, but unlike you I remember almost nothing from them, other than that I liked them more than the Hardy Boys. Oddly enough, though, I owned all of the Hardy Boys published up to that time (I'm guessing about 1982), and can still remember bits and pieces of those stories. When I moved out of my parents' house, I donated them all to my nephew who reads about three times faster than I do.

I've only recently rediscovered YA, and most recently picked up "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. With a title like that, I just couldn't pass it up.

We do seem to share a lot of SF, and I am a bit jealous of your Star Trek collection (and I never thought to catalog my Battletech source books).

I'm going to try to locate a copy of "The Great American Paperback : An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book" -- that looks like my kind of book -- PLUS, it gives me an idea for a new tag for some of mine ("Book about books").

And... just to add another layer to the conversation, I rescue cats too; "Leo" being the most recent addition to the pride.

Cheers.
- Michael

posted by Michael_P at 11:13 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2007

I enjoyed browsing your library - we seem to share a fair amount of books too (106). I've added you to my "Interesting Libraries" list.

A lot of the covers have brought back tons of memories - especially the Hardy Boys and the Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators. Do you actually own those "Three Investigators" books? I always enjoyed them, but never could find them outside of the library (then again, I didn't look too hard either).

Have a good day.
- Michael

posted by Michael_P at 5:21 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2007

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