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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2008, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Hogwarts Express, Read YA Lit, What Are You Reading Now?, What did YOU buy today?

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Patricia A. McKillip (Shared favorites)

About meIn this good company, it's easy to say that I love books. That's the obvious point. But the fact is that if I won the lottery tomorrow, the first thing I would do is go straight to the nearest bookstore and, for the first time in my life, buy everything I want. After I returned the rental truck used to haul my lottery-money-paid-for books home, I would buy a bigger house (for my books), perhaps a hybrid car (for use in traveling long distances to seek out more books), and many, many more bookshelves.
The work of my life is reading (I have an M.A. in literature and I teach mythology--as an adjunct--at my local community college), though I do not yet consider myself well-read. Reading is joyful work--it's nice to love my job. I also enjoy sitting, eating, and sleeping, and can occasionally be convinced to put my book down long enough to watch a movie, play a videogame, or even go outside to play tennis.
My favorite books are those novels that pull you in so completely that finishing them is like waking from a dream; upon emerging you find yourself surprised that the surrounding world has not changed while you were away.

About my libraryI'm only just beginning to catalogue my books (though, in one obsessive evening about eight months ago, I did count them and the total was about 1000 volumes--plenty of room for growth), but books have a place in every room of my home. Pre-twentieth century classics, with special emphasis on Austen and other early female novelists, are located in the bedroom. American children's classics (in pre-twentieth century editions), including two solid shelves of Lousia May Alcott, are shelved neatly in the livingroom, as are reference books and most of my folklore and mythology texts. Cookbooks (of which there are only a few) are, logically, in the kitchen. The office catches everything else, including one solid, seven-foot-tall bookcase full of young adult and children's literature, and another full of science fiction and fantasy. (A slightly smaller bookcase houses Irish literature and everything that doesn't fall under speculative fiction.)
I can never keep up with my "to read" stack, which currently weighs in at 262 titles, but neither can I stop acquiring more. One can never have too many books.

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