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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Maeve Binchy, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Thomas B. Costain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Jasper Fforde, Antonia Fraser, Elizabeth Gaskell, Peter Gethers, Helene Hanff, Joanne Harris, James Herriot, Susan Higginbotham, N.F. Houck, James Joyce, Sophie Kinsella, Frank McCourt, Nancy Milford, Edna St. Vincent Millay, A. A. Milne, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Michelle Moran, Sharon Kay Penman, Samuel Pepys, Jane Pettigrew, Jean Plaidy, Sylvia Plath, James Norwood Pratt, Barbara Pym, Edward Rutherfurd, William Shakespeare, Alexander McCall Smith, Muriel Spark, Claire Tomalin, Susan Vreeland, Alison Weir, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAny Amount of Books, Argosy Books, Asahiya Bookstore New York, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Astor Place, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Citigroup Center, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Fifth Ave, Bauman Rare Books, Bluestockings, Books Kinokuniya - New York, Books of Wonder, Borders - Charing Cross Road, Borders - Manhattan - Columbus Circle, Borders - Manhattan - Penn Plaza, Borders - Manhattan - Wall Street, Curious George Goes to Wordsworth, East Village Books & Records, Foyles, Heights Books, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, Jim Hanley's Universe, Midtown Comics Grand Central, Morningside Bookshop, Murder One, Partners & Crime, Portobello Books, Posman Books @ GCT, Rizzoli Bookstore, Strand Book Annex, Strand Bookstore, The Dover Bookshop - London, Waterstone's Piccadilly

Favorite librariesNew York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Other favoritesThe British Museum, The Sherlock Holmes Museum

About meI have very little patience for sitting still in a classroom, which explains my lack of degrees (not that I'm knocking university - I may yet return). I can, however, spend vast amounts of time immersed in a good book. People who know me like to call me "self-educated", though I guess I'm really being educated by other writers. I also like to learn by conversation with fascinating people, whether in my my native NYC or away on one of my rare forays out of town. Though I'd like to travel more, I'm usually quite satisfied ensconced in my home library with my ridiculously cute Persian cat Zenobia, a good cup of Darjeeling and a historical novel (oh, and now my adopted boy cat Moofer, who tends to knock books off my lap.) When the weather is pleasant I prefer to read under the shade of a massive tree, and sometimes I wish I had my own garden. I also watch too much TV for my own good.

About my libraryI tend to haunt the public libraries often enough, so I don't think this list quite reflects the amount of books I've read in my lifetime. However, there's enough of me in it, as can be seen from the amounts of history, tea and poetry books I have in my personal collection. It may also show I'm a raving Anglophile. I am a somewhat curious person and like to learn about a variety of things, so I try not to limit my collection to only a few genres - but I do have my priorities!

The TBR list is getting frightening...

Since I don't have a garden (unless you count that one plant), I enjoy watching my library grow. Making room for new acquisitions is a labor of love.

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Currently readingNero by Edward Champlin
The trial (The Modern library of the world's best books [318]) (The Modern library of the world's best books [318]) by Franz Kafka
The warden, and Barchester towers, (The modern library of the world's best books) by Anthony Trollope
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop by April Benson
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