Member: macart3

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Favorite authorsKelley Armstrong, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Melissa Marr (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesChapel Hill Public Library, Louisville Free Public Library

About meWell, I'm a second-year graduate student in Library Science (LS) at Chapel Hill with an undergrad degree in Spanish. I want to go into cataloging for now, but I can see myself going into a different discipline within LS in the future. I have mixed feelings towards digital libraries, but I'm willing to try it.

I love cats, books, knitting, cross-stitching, travelling, sleeping, cooking, baking, walking, earrings, skirts, collecting coins from different nations, organization (but not my room), color, fabric, texture.

I'm pretty laid back unless I have major assignments due. Then I'm crazy tense and terse.

Fairly minimalist, except for books. Although I think I'm going to have to make a decision not to buy many popular books unless I really love it or the author's works. I'll buy more of the academic books that I read for leisure.

I love plays on words.

I like to watch "The Office" and "Mad Men". Love horror, drama, and foreign movies. Have watched "Twilight" and mocked it relentlessly with a friend. Can't wait for "New Moon"...

About my libraryI prefer historical fiction, history books, academic book (the kind where you need it for research on a paper. I read them during my leisure time), sociology books, fantasy, psychologically scary books, folklore, and YA. I kind of read a little bit of everything except for the really really trashy romance novels, sci-fi, bio- and autobiographies (so narcissistic! although I make rare exceptions), and probably some other genres that I can't name right now. I'm extremely hesitant about religious material. I prefer to read their impact on society and the implications on female-male relationships, etc. rather than "Is there a God, etc.?" kind pf philosophy. I'm just getting into graphic novels (my Lexington friend will be so psyched when I tell her this; I've held a snobbish attitude towards them). I love literature: mainly British, American, Russian, Western European, and some Latin American/Spanish. I want to delve more into Asian, Eastern European, African, and Australian lit. I won't read poetry on my own, but I will read it if there's someone to guide me through it.

Right now I'm in a fairy story/folklore phase. I blame all on Melissa Marr's fabulous book "Wicked Lovely". And I really can't wait until "Radiant Shadows" comes out in April of 2010, and the ARCs around December!!

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Member sinceDec 4, 2008