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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Edward Albee, Sherman Alexie, Woody Allen, Margaret Atwood, St. Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Vereen M. Bell, Augusten Burroughs, James M. Cain, Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Nick Cave, Raymond Chandler, Noam Chomsky, Eldridge Cleaver, Diablo Cody, John Connolly, St. John of the Cross, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marguerite Duras, T. S. Eliot, Church of England, Frantz Fanon, William Faulkner, Hollis Gillespie, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis R. Gordon, Edward Gorey, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Martin Heidegger, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Sébastien Japrisot, Gish Jen, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Betty MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Norman Mailer, Sir Thomas Malory, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Margaret Millar, Toni Morrison, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julian of Norwich, Blaise Pascal, Walker Percy, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Pynchon, Ian Rankin, Deanna Raybourn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Celia Rivenbark, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Jean-Paul Sartre, David Sedaris, Wallace Stevens, James Thurber, J. R. R. Tolkien, G. B. Trudeau, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Penn Warren, Tennessee Williams, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, Émile Zola (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Greenville, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Spartanburg, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - The Shops at Greenridge, Caldwell House, Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe, St. Anthony's Catholic Store

Favorite librariesBlacksburg Branch Library, Cherokee County Public Library, Sandor Teszler Library, Wofford College, South Carolina State Library

Other favoritesSouth Carolina Book Festival

About meI am:

-A lifelong reader who, in childhood, slept with books in her bed so she'd never wake up in the night without something to read or have to fall asleep without a book;
-a college English and philosophy major, which delighted the reading senses but left me unfit for any job whatsoever, so I am also;
-a former English grad student with a master's in English and partial PhD work in an English-and-philosophy field, but teaching wasn't for me, so I am now,
-a librarian at a small-town library who is considering getting her MLIS.

About my libraryI started out on Library Thing at work, experimenting with it to see how it might relate to our library, where I'm the circulation manager. It quickly became an addiction, an obsession, and all of those other good things. Now, every time I get a new book, I have to race to a computer and add it in. Of course, that means that the several thousand books I *already* have aren't anything like fully added. Ah, a challenge!

I think I can honestly say that I'd be happy with my nose in a book (as long as the book isn't horribly dusty, of course) all of the time, provided food and water were available. Or maybe food and coffee. Anyway, I'm also a true bibliophile who loves to acquire books and refuses to let them go (which is creating a critical mass situation in the house) as well. I'm not discriminating-- I don't care if it's a first edition or a tenth. And I'll read pretty much anything, cheap horror novel or nonfiction account of WWII or medical textbook or complicated novel. I love memoirs, especially funny ones, or biographies of people who had a major impact on history or were just plain quirky. The history of middle ages Europe is good, too. As are histories of 20th century fashion. I just want the book in my greedy hands. But no romances! It's all follow-the-bouncing-reading-ball with me. My "bedtime" book might be about psychosurgery, and my "daytime" book might a hilarious, foul-mouthed memoir. My brain, such as it is, will easily slip between the two (which is probably some sign of mental illness-- probably better check my DSM-IV!).

As of right now, my Librarything library consists of a tiny fraction of my actual library (which might better be described as piles and boxes of books, which is especially true now that my bookcases have been stolen). I would looove to get it all in there, but I think we have to call that a long range goal, unless I win the lottery and hire staff! (and buy replacement bookcases)

Keep dreaming, huh?

Perhaps I should stop writing now . . . and choose what I'm going to read next.

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