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CollectionsYour library (957), Ebooks (50), Wishlist (705), Read but unowned (665), All collections (2,377)

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Tagsfiction (1,338), @ my parents' (905), fantasy (502), non-fiction (296), graphic novel (270), we invented colour (255), young adult (212), (regular online) (186), (regular bookstore) (180), (bookmooch) (171) — see all tags

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About meI am, in no particular order: a librarian, a first-generation immigrant, a geek, a hypersomniac, a lipstick addict, a creative writer, a slob, an optimist hiding in a cynic's coat.

About my libraryMyth #1: I have more books than I have brain cells.

Myth #2: Sometimes in the middle of the night, when your blood moves sluggishly in your slow-dreaming head, if you strain your ears hard enough, you can hear the sound of books singing.

Myth #3: This sentence contains 8 instances of the letter E.

Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, BookMooching, Books Compared, Canadian Bookworms, Fairy Tales Retold, Feminist SF, Librarians who LibraryThing, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), Non-Fiction Readers —show all groups

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Elizabeth Bear, Jorge Luis Borges, Nancy Farmer, Atul Gawande, Frances Hardinge, Guy Gavriel Kay, E. L. Konigsburg, Tanith Lee, Alberto Manguel, China Miéville, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, George Orwell, Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, Gregory Scofield, Catherynne M. Valente, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Fumi Yoshinaga, Kaori Yuki (Shared favorites)

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Member sinceNov 12, 2006

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Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen

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The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne

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The Drops of God: New World by Tadashi Agi

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The Drops of God, Volume 4: The Second Apostle by Tadashi Agi

Saw your comment (from some time back) about Jim Grimsley's Kirith Kirin and thought you might like to know that after a decade it is available again. It has been published as an e-book available through Amazon's Kindle Store and Apple's iBook Store. It has much better illustrations now.

posted by hcamplt at 5:01 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2011

Hi Nancy,

Oh, it's always fun to be able to just buy the books you really want. I have a shopping cart going at Amazon with 5/6 I really want right now, but it kills me that for all of them, I'm #1 or #2 at paperbackswap, and you KNOW as soon as I order them from Amazon, they'll get posted!

I really liked The Knife of Never Letting Go, but I was never able to get any kids to read it, so the sequel has moved down on my TBR pile(s). There's always another book that someone is dying to read, so I read that so that they can have it next. I'll have to put the 3rd one on my WL, thanks for mentioning it.

I just read Candor, which was another YA dystopia, very good, although intended for a younger group than The Knife.

As I recall, which is increasingly faulty these days, you were a fan of The Thief/Queen/King of Attolia books. Did you know a 4th has just come out? It's one of the books in my Amazon cart, but it's calling me to just break down and buy it - along with the 12th Dresden files book!

Take Care,
Brenda

posted by ealaindraoi at 9:37 pm (EST) on May 27, 2010

;)
September. Either way before or way after yours! lol
Did you have a good birthday? Get any good books? ;)
Brenda

posted by ealaindraoi at 5:29 pm (EST) on May 20, 2010

Happy Birthday, Nancy!!

:)

Brenda

posted by ealaindraoi at 3:22 pm (EST) on May 14, 2010

I just noticed that you've just read "Changing My Mind" as well. I was amazed by the essays about authors and books, and she added to my wishlist and made me want to reread others. I even want to read "Interviews with Hideous Men" and, really, I do know better. I do think the book fell apart in the horrible movie review segment. I can find a movie synopsis anywhere on the web and I don't think that hers were any more insightful than the average film goer with a decent vocabulary. Still, it was excellent even if it made me somewhat unfriendly when my SO tried to chat when I was midway through the Nabokov/Barthes essay.

posted by RidgewayGirl at 10:31 am (EST) on May 4, 2010

You're welcome, and thanks for joining! I was surprised there wasn't already a group for the series. Better late than never!

posted by wisewoman at 4:51 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2010

::G:: Like many other people listed here, I've been attracted here by your tags -- specifically, "Angels are not nice and fluffy". Keep it up! (And maybe I should do a bit more creative tagging myself... Sigh, I've been reading far too few books lately!)

posted by AnnaOok at 5:58 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2010

Hi there,

Like the person below, I like your tags, but your reviews are even better! Do you have a regular thread on LT where you post them?

thanks...
wandering_star

posted by wandering_star at 9:02 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2010

Hi - I must admit, I was lured over to your library by your really *neat* tagging phrases, but your collection is also a happy source of recommendations and suggestions.

posted by AlexDraven at 5:01 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2010

Thank you for your kind comments. If you read Come Thou Tortoise, I hope you enjoy it!!!

posted by Scrat at 7:57 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2010

I've been eying the Zadie Smith book. I may have to go and get a copy now. I'm glad your reading has been so good lately, especially since it's even colder where you are. I have been reminding myself of my Canadian roots (Edmonton, not a tropical location), but this current cold spell is, well, cold.

posted by RidgewayGirl at 12:18 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2010

Hi Nancy,

How funny that you wrote that note on my profile today, the day I was determined that I was going to write all 4 reviews that I owed! :)

I really did love it, many of the stories are very Tithe-like. Although a lot of them have been published before in other anthologies, so if you've read a lot of collections, you may have already read them. Many of the stories were worlds and situations that I wanted more of. I don't know if that's a good thing, or a bad thing in a short story....

I do count VERY short books in my total, and for the last month or so, I've only been reading books with less than 200 pages and I read a lot of YA and MG books. I think I have enough books for the next 6 months in my TBR piles. Next, I'm reading Under the Dome - that should take me a week by the looks of it!

Did you do Santathing? Get anything good?
Take Care,
Brenda

posted by ealaindraoi at 2:30 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2010

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

posted by theoldman at 8:49 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2009