Member: lilysea

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Tagsfiction (230), American literature (151), queer (128), lesbian (118), women's studies (90), African American literature (76), race (68), biography (67), religion (63), Christianity (62) — see all tags

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Groups19th Century Decadent Literature, 40-Something Library Thingers, African/African American Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Queer and Trans Lit, Tea!

Favorite authorsAlison Bechdel, Judith Butler, Emma Donoghue, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Ali Smith, Lemony Snicket, Mark Twain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson (Shared favorites)

About meI am an over-educated, downwardly-mobile, lesbian housewife and write-from-home mom to two beautiful daughters by domestic, open, transracial adoption. Tea, not coffee. Put the milk in first.

Trying to sell my third book, a historical young adult novel about what might happen if the Jack of Hearts from Bob Dylan's song was really a girl in disguise.

Beginning my fourth book, a light-hearted retelling of Robin Hood for younger teens.

About my libraryI managed to catalog about 2/3 of my library here before I all but gave up. Still, there's more here than not. I shelve (and therefore catalog) by category, including: fiction; general nonfiction (a lot of critical and cultural theory, a lot about race in the United States, esp. African American/white race relations); poetry; drama; biography; education; adoption and parenting (both theoretical and practical); queer studies (fiction, theory, self-help etc.); religion (especially, but not exclusively Christianity) and a nice set of Library of America editions of American literature.

My collection reflects my undergraduate days as an English language and literature major, a Master's degree in religious education, K-12 teacher's certification, coming out as a lesbian in my late 20's, a PhD in American literature with an emphasis on gender, race and sexuality between 1870 and 1920, and two transracial adoptions.

The fact that I buy (rather than borrow) most of my books and hold onto them forever probably reflects having grown up the child of an independent bookstore owner.

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Real nameShannon LC Cate

LocationChicago, Illinois, USA

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Member sinceOct 29, 2005