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Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, Banned Books, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Cats, books, life is good., Children's Literature, Comics, Literary Journals (Periodically Appear), LTers with dogs, Made into a Movie, Penguin Books — show all groups , Penguin Classics, Progressive & Liberal!, Reading Globally, Serious Series Lovers, Social science, Sustainability, Tattooed LTers, The University of Tennessee, Travel and Exploration literature, World Religions

Favorite authorsJean Marie Auel, Jane Austen, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Michael Chabon, e.e. cummings, Dave Eggers, Ernest Hemingway, John Irving, Gregory Maguire, Gabriel García Márquez, Christopher Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Elizabeth Peters, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Brian K. Vaughan, Evelyn Waugh, Bill Willingham (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBook Exchange: Manchaca, BookPeople, Borders - Knoxville, Carpe Librum Booksellers, City Lights Bookstore, Half Price Books - South Lamar, Hargreaves Books, Hastings Books, Music, & Video, McKay Used Books and CDs, Moe's Books, Shakespeare & Co. Books, Southland Books, University Book Shop (Otago), University Press Books, Whitcoulls Dunedin

About mei have a background in Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies.

no, i'm not 15. or 19. or even 21. and no, i'm not ecstatic about looking so young. no one likes to get carded for rated R movies when they are nearly 30.

i read everything that crosses my path. i read classics, and children's lit, and popular novels, and textbooks, and crap (which i usually don't know is crap until i start, and then i just can't stop in case there is one redeeming moment). most books that i really like, i read over and over and over. i hate it when people write in books... that's what book journals are for.

favorite genres:
dark humor
light fantasy
children's lit
social sciences
series

as of October 2, 2009, i raise chickens. yeah, it's been a weird year. can you imagine how hard it is to read a book when you have 22 chicks, 5 dogs, and 8 cats making a ruckus around the place?

About my librarymy library is on one hand a labor of love and on the other a complete catch-all. i have tried to hold on to every book that's come my way since i was a kid, but that hasn't happened. being a student and moving around a lot has meant that i had to cull out some of the extra weight, and some entire boxes were lost in the "great moving fiasco of 2003." since i like to move around alot (and it's not always possibe to take every book i own with me) LT has become an invaluable resource. i've saved so much money by not rebuying books i've forgotten i already own.

Pages Read 2009: 21,059 (9/19/09)

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Real nameLeah

LocationMaryville, TN

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Member sinceJun 25, 2008