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CollectionsYour library (1,662), Graphic (1,250), Magazines (138), Currently reading (5), Read but unowned (139), Wishlist (637), RPG Books (71), Grr's Comics (455), Grr To Read (131), Moochable (61), All collections (4,383)

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TagsManga (1,353), Fantasy (1,183), Shoujo (1,027), American Author (886), WISHLIST (637), Young Adult (411), Translation (342), Sci-Fi (326), Romance (293), Japanese Author (278) — see all tags

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About meI am a geek, a nerd, and a child at heart who still loves all the things loved in childhood. I like sci-fi/fantasy books & TV, cartoons, and games of all types, including board games, video games, card games, and role-playing games. I collect My Little Ponies, obscure stuffed animals, and moose-related furnishings. I am a pack-rat: I just like STUFF and I like cataloging it all. For the most part, my library speaks for me better than I can myself. When I am not spending too much time on the internet or otherwise engaging in geekery, I dance (ballet, tap, jazz, acro, that kind of thing.)

I have very specific tastes. My educational reading is mostly hard science and math with a little linguistics thrown in. For recreational reading I tend toward fantasy, mythology, shoujo manga, and young adult novels. My partner's books are mixed in with mine except for a small subsection of his comics which are in their own collection (indeed 400/15,000 is a very small subsection.) There are certain plot/character sensibilities that will endear a book to me no matter how flawed it may be otherwise, like my peculiar affinity for quest/travel/survival narratives. Tagging is important to me, but I'm always changing my mind so my tags are a work in progress and less evocative than I intend them to be.

About my libraryMy library is a catalog of books owned (excepting "Read But Unowned" (since 2007) & "Wishlist") but still not everything owned. Non-book media like games & movies are archived at my alternate TheDarkAge account. It is mathematically impossible for me to be able to read all the books on my TBR in a lifetime, but darned if I'm not going to try!

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Favorite authorsDaniel Abraham, Peter S. Beagle, Lois McMaster Bujold, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones, Yun Kouga, Ellen Kushner, Madeleine L'Engle, Robin McKinley, A. A. Milne, Sarah Monette, Tamora Pierce, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Kaimu Tachibana, Natsuki Takaya, Arina Tanemura, Jean Thesman, Catherynne M. Valente (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Park Slope, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Union Square, BOOKOFF New York (49 W 45th), Books Kinokuniya - New York, Books of Wonder, Boulevard Books & Café, Strand Bookstore, The BookMark Shoppe

Favorite librariesBrooklyn Public Library - Bay Ridge, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Other favoritesAmerican Museum of Natural History, New York Comic Con 2011

Favorite publishersOrbit Books

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Real nameBefuddled Sheep is Befuddled

LocationBrooklyn, NY

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/macsbrains (profile)
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Member sinceJun 18, 2007

Currently readingThe Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Love Among the Particles by Norman Lock
A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll

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Sakura Hime (2) by Arina Tanemura

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Sakura Hime (1) by Arina Tanemura

Thank you! I was very lucky in being asked to take care of my friend's condo when she moved to Japan 8 years ago. Another avid reader, her place came complete with most of the bookcases pictured as well as the lovely brick fireplace.

I see you're also in Brooklyn, have you been to Singularity & Co. in Dumbo? Vintage pulp sci-fi is not my interest, but it's an intriguing little shop & I like bring my friends who do read a lot of sci-fi to it when they are visiting.

posted by ELiz_M at 3:22 pm (EST) on May 5, 2013

Have placed my review of MENIAL here on LT.
Go get the book and read.
I had fun from start to finish. But don't expect great flashy characters that change the world or fight huge spacebattles this one is about the small-persons.
You know the ones that normally only get the dump-actor-rolls.

posted by omf at 1:21 pm (EST) on Apr 13, 2013

This post is being posted on Feb 26, 2013 at 2:07 PM EST

posted by macsbrains at 2:07 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2013

Pleased to report that Shadow of the Torturer is very good! Rich prose, cool world, gloomy atmospherics that give way to... well let's not spoil anything but i liked it a lot and will definitely be picking up the next volume.

posted by jfThing at 9:54 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2013

Note to self: include this into library with manual entry script:
http://www.librarything.com/work/13326172/book/92450863

posted by TheDarkAge at 1:43 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2013

Thanks for the compliment on my library. I have a lot of interesting books to read looking at other people libraries here. Like I needed a longer to read list! But they all sound so good...

posted by al.vick at 3:19 pm (EST) on Feb 12, 2013

no prob. i'f got it through Early Reviewers. so naturaly i will write a review (I'l tell you when). at the moment i'm still reading The Lightbringers (http://www.librarything.de/work/book/92318219) - and I'm not realy sure if I will finish that.

posted by omf at 12:58 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2013

Hi 'Befuddled sheep'. I was wondering how you get the pics of the books you're reading in the About my library on your profile. I tried copy & paste, but it didn't work. Thanks! And nice shelves there in the pics!

posted by DaveLancaster at 10:54 pm (EST) on Oct 26, 2012

Thanks, but yours are even more awesome!! All those ponies and all that manga...
(And the fact they are all shelved is also very impressive, lol)

posted by Iyoko at 2:05 am (EST) on Nov 15, 2011