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About meI read books. I review books (more in the past than now). I collect books (much more in the past than now). I make music (http://www.macedward.com). I take pictures (engelcox at flickr).

About my libraryThe library can be easily split into two parts: the hardcovers of authors I love and the graphic novels. I used to teach writing and used comics as the subject I had my students write about, so I was able to indulge myself in purchasing collections. The hardcover habit started in college, and was broken about ten years ago when we moved from one coast to the other.

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Real nameGlen Engel-Cox

LocationColumbus, Ohio

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Member sinceOct 9, 2005

Currently readingThe Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman

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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis

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Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy

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Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Tom Morris

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Sleep thieves : an eye-opening exploration into the science and mysteries of sleep by Stanley Coren

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Zagatsurvey Music Guide: 1,000 Top Albums of All Time (Zagat Survey: Music Guide) (Zagat Survey: Music Guide) by Betsy Andrews

I'll be lobbying about wounded Veterans in DC from Califoria, and dropping by the FUTURIST book club event:

July 18, 2007 - Book Club

Meals to Come: A history of the Future of Food

By Warren Belasco

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level, 5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

If you can drop by, say hello, introduce yourself to me.

posted by keylawk at 5:31 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2007

I had a problem with My Lucky Star that, after 10 years, I'd completely lost any feeling for the trio. I kept thinking: "This should be funnier ..." and perhaps it would have been had I re-read the first two again before tackling the latest. Here's hoping for a new Stephen Macauley!

posted by Seajack at 7:51 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2007

Nice picture. I saw Elvis Costello about a year and a half ago. It was just him and a guitar on stage... no band. That was undoubtedly the best concert I've ever seen.

posted by inkdrinker at 11:05 am (EST) on Jan 3, 2007

Wow, William Gibson and Graham Joyce, a reader with the similar tastes to mine. I'm also in D.C. and added you to my watchlist. Take care. Jen

posted by Ecrivaine32 at 2:33 pm (EST) on Dec 7, 2006

I see that you own Door Number Three by Patrick O'Leary. If your interested this, http://www.fantasybookspot.com/node/1447, is a link to an interview that I did with him recently. He has new books coming out in the next year.

Best

Brian

posted by LastCall at 2:27 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2006

Yes, the Ritchie is a good collection. As you may have seen, my "reference collection" is full of short story volumes, which I began seriously to acquire when I decided to list the individual story titles for collections in my crime fiction bibliography.

posted by AllenJHubin at 12:46 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2006

You said: So, what do the rec:[name] tags mean? Recommendations to/from certain friends?

You guessed it. I wanted to have these grouped together so I put rec: in front of the name.

posted by brendak at 11:20 pm (EST) on Oct 31, 2005

Hello! In response to your question about my rather cryptic tags "irretrievably wet" and "damp and damaged" -- would be sad either way, wouldn't it? But I'm definitely not commenting on any soddenness in the writing itself, just painfully reviewing the sad state of our books after our first ever flooding a week or so ago. Freakish timing, given that we had boxed them up carefully and placed them "safely" on raised shelves in the once-dry basement while painting the house this month. But you could say I got what I asked for in Twilight Zone terms: always wanted to catalog my ever-creeping library, and kept promising myself I'd replace those old well-read paperbacks with hardcover one of these days. Halfway there! (that would be the cataloguing part, not the replacing ...)

Excellent blog btw (sorry, I peeked)!

posted by GrendelQ at 12:46 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2005

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