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Collections2009 (109), Your library (311), Fiction (261), Science Fiction/Fantasy (173), Mystery (55), NonFiction (50), Food (11), Cookbooks (3), Food History (7), Arts & Crafts (2), Social Sciences (6), History (4), 2008 (115), 2007 (81), 2006 (7), Read but unowned (1), All collections (312)

Reviews157 reviews

TagsFiction (260), Science Fiction (109), Fantasy (54), Mystery (51), Murder (49), Nonfiction (43), Politics (24), Anthology (24), Aliens (21), Short Stories (20) — see all tags

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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2009, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Cookbookers, Food History, Science Fiction Fans

Favorite authorsDaniel Abraham, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Iain M. Banks, Greg Bear, Peter F. Hamilton, George R. R. Martin, Jack McDevitt, Richard Morgan, David R. Palmer, Tim Powers, Alastair Reynolds, Dan Simmons, Charles Stross, John Varley, Robert Charles Wilson (Shared favorites)

About meA long time reader, a book collector, a gourmet cook, a person who runs science fiction conventions and builds houses.

About my libraryScience fiction, cookbooks, mysteries, needlework, quilting, home building.

I have thousands of books, some autographed, but am using LibraryThing to track only my current reading.

Homepagehttp://threadsofdesire.blogspot.com/

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LocationNevada and Maui

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Common KnowledgeSeries (97), Awards (147), Characters (1099), Places (293)

Member sinceAug 1, 2006

Currently readingDaughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century by Justine Larbalestier
Trial of Flowers by Jay Lake
Art Quilt Workbook by Jane Davila
Food: The History of Taste (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Paul Freedman

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Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk was ok. I picked it up on a whim after chatting with her husband who was helping her promote her book at Orycon this last year. It was solidly fun. It wasn't a great classic of literature and breath taking prose but it was good solid entertainment and I'd pick up a second book by that author.
Just finished reading Ahlgren's "Discipline" and looked up reviews to see what others thought. Your review matched my thoughts exactly: a civil war w/o violence??? In America??!!! I never realized time travel could possibly be so boring. :D
Hello, sorry about the delay in answering. I just saw that you added me as a library of interest, and it does look like we love a lot of the same authors!

~duchess
Hello kd9,

Please accept my apology for the delayed response. I saw that you added me as an interesting library (thanks!), then I started a fair number of message exchanges with bluetyson on some science fiction thread that got me all excited to hunt down Perry Rhodan books, so I went to do that, then went to San Diego, and then it was several days of "fun" with wildfires (one "voluntary" evacuation) where I live near L.A. and, to make a long story short, I forgot about you; so, again, I apologize.

We seem to have quite a few favorite authors in common. I'm mildly surprised by the Jack McDevitt common interest, but I'm definitely surprised about David R. Palmer (there are only three LT'ers listing him as a favorite). I used to have a box of books dedicated to my favorite re-reads and "Emergence" was in that box. I haven't re-read it for a few years, but I think I will soon since I'm thinking about it.

If you ever get a hankerin' to list your signed books, I'd be interested in checking them out.

Kind of a weird coincidence. You're based in Maui part-time and I just got a message from HorusE about visiting Curious George's grave on the "Road to Hana," which was related to my response to Devenish asking about my picture on my profile page. I went on a tour of the Road to Hana almost 10 years ago but I don't recall any mention of Curious George. I guess I'll just have to vacation again in Maui:)

Take it easy,

bookstothesky
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