Member: guyalice

CollectionsFairytale Adaptations (706), Your library (1,693), Read but unowned (853), Wishlist (353), To read (546), Currently reading (3), Favorites (215), DVD-Video (66), Comics (43), Music (3), Magazines (1), Books to be Thrown Across the Room with Great Force (12), Toss? (164), All collections (3,303)

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GroupsBanned Books, Books in Books, Children's Literature, Comics, Fairy Tales Retold, Feminist Theory, Japanese Culture, Phantoms of the Opera

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Cicely Mary Barker, Berke Breathed, Jan Brett, Karen Cushman, Peter David, Emily Dickinson, Peter Dickinson, Roger Ebert, Anne Fadiman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Gebert, Rumer Godden, William Goldman, Les frères Grimm, Karen Hesse, Trina Schart Hyman, Henrik Ibsen, Diana Wynne Jones, Susan Kay, Gary Larson, Tanith Lee, Madeleine L'Engle, Charles de Lint, Lois Lowry, Daphne Du Maurier, Linda Medley, A. A. Milne, Hayao Miyazaki, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Alan Moore, Terry Moore, Donna Jo Napoli, Audrey Niffenegger, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Katherine Paterson, Danny Peary, Edgar Allan Poe, Terry Pratchett, Jane Ray, Louis Sachar, Saki, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Shel Silverstein, Gail Simone, Jeff Smith, Jon Stewart, Natsuki Takaya, Shaun Tan, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Brian K. Vaughan, T. H. White, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, Bill Willingham, Terri Windling, Jane Yolen (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstores2nd Chance Books - Cary, Beach Book Mart, Book Shop New & Used, Edward McKay Used Books Greensboro, Edward McKay Used Books Raleigh, Foundation's Edge, Mr. Mike\'s Used Books - Cary, Quail Ridge Books & Music, Reader's Corner, The Book Vault, Wentworth & Leggett Fine Books

Favorite librariesHarrye B. Lyons Design Library - North Carolina State University Libraries, North Carolina State University Libraries - D.H. Hill Library, Wake County Public Libraries - West Regional Library

Other favoritesThe Joel Lane Museum House

About meI have volunteered and worked in libraries since I was 9 and currently work in an academic library as a cataloger. I was raised on books by my dear Mom and have worked in libraries really since the 5th grade. It's in the blood.

Aside from books and reading I also like film, mythology, folktales, animation, comic books, Corgis, and hedgehogs.

My favorite book is certainly All Quiet on the Western Front and my favorite authors include Neil Gaiman, Donna Jo Napoli, Charles de Lint, Karen Cushman, Poe, Roger Ebert, and Jane Yolen. I'm an eager collector of novels based on fairy tales, and I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and Charles de Lint's Newford books.

About my libraryI'm a compulsive book-hoarder and have had to give up on frequenting used-book stores (Borders and Barnes & Noble are out of the question!) until I make a hole in the unread books that take up most of my closet.

The genres I tend to gravitate to are fantasy, children's, YA, mythic fiction, fairy tale fantasy, books about books, and I'm recently getting into ecological-themed nonfiction.

You may have also seen my collection Fairytale Adaptations. I have not read and do not own many of these unless otherwise noted. This is a project I am working on to create a complete list of retellings of fairy tales.

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Member sinceMay 16, 2007

Currently readingAfter Dark by Haruki Murakami
Stonehaven Volume 1: Milk Cartons & Dog Biscuits by Kevin Tinsley
Green Lantern: Will World by J.M. DeMatteis