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Karen G. Schneider

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 by Dave Eggers

Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them by Bill Walsh

Hood by Emma Donoghue

Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

Best Food Writing 2006 (Best Food Writing) by Holly Hughes

The Best Little Boy in the World by John Reid

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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Alison Bechdel (Shared favorites)

About meLibrarian, writer, bookaholic, technophile. My day job is Community Librarian for Equinox, the support and development company for Evergreen open-source library software.

About my libraryIntentionally limited to two very tall bookcases (if you don't count cookbooks). Creative nonfiction, gay and lesbian literature, classic fiction, and a smattering of travel and other stuff.

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Member sinceJun 21, 2006

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Brew Like a Monk: Trappist, Abbey, and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them by Stan Hieronymus

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Risen: Why Libraries Are Here to Stay by Anthony Hodge

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A New Zealand Prayer Book: He Karakia Mihinare O Aotearoa by Church of the Province of New Zealand

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Fodor's See It Australia, 3rd Edition by Fodor's

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Frommer's Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque (Frommer's Complete) by Lesley S. King

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Frommer's New Orleans 2008 (Frommer's Complete) by Mary Herczog

Hey, I'm glad you like it! She's a wonderful writer. My Secret Santa was spot-on with what he picked for me. What fun!

posted by boltgirl at 5:45 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2007

You have captured my imagination with your review on "The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop". I will now search high and low for a copy so I too can experience this book. Thank you for the delightful review! Even though we only share five of the same books in our current libraries, I hope you do not mind me adding you to my watch list.

posted by magst at 3:27 am (EST) on May 31, 2007

You are correct, and Buzbee himself said the same. I am not that young, by the way, but thank you for thinking so!

posted by kgs at 5:34 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2006

I believe your age and, perhaps, professional experience may have led you to make a mistake in the third paragraph of your review of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. I have not (yet) read the book, but I feel certain that the "lending libraries" Buzbee is referring to as popular prior to WWII are rental libraries, not public libraries. Certainly any of us who were well into book-devouring in those depressed times would interpret his statement that way; rental libraries were usually our only source. Nearly every town had a few; many merely a corner in the local general store. I frequented one which was just a large box on a caring woman's front porch (always unguarded, unlocked and "open" on the honor system.) Travel a bit on a shun-pike tour through the isolated small towns in the Western US or frozen North and you will find some even today. The philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie changed our bookish world in a great many cities, but by no means everywhere.

posted by artisan at 2:14 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2006

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