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Member: medbie

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Reviews4 reviews

Tagsread (400), fantasy (137), juvenile/YA (96), reference (59), history (57), mystery (53), short stories (38), memoir (26), biography (25), play (24) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsDiana Wynne Jones, Vita Sackville-West (Shared favorites)

About meI am a 30-something amateur book reviewer (see website), lay-historian and avid reader. My interests are varied, but I am particularly fond of history, British Lit of the 18th and 19th centuries and good mysteries. I've recently become a fan of the fantasy worlds of Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones and Christopher Moore; I list Jane Austen, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald in my top favorite authors.

About my libraryAs of July 2008, I am still adding books and will be for some time to get all my library cataloged. Check back for often for updates.

I've been avidly reading and collecting books since I began to read at age 3. They are all crammed into a small house, shared by my husband and his library. We have bookshelves in every space that will accommodate one, and many spaces that really won't. We step over piles of books, sleep beside piles of books and eat around piles of books. And yet, we can't stop buying! I have a special bookshelf of "to-be-read books" which is squeezed between my side of the bed and the wall and consists of 2 4 X 3 bookcases and 2 pear crates.

I also tend to collect older books (40's-60's) with decorated faceplates or dustjackets. I love the look of them. Due to that, I've ended up with some bizarre books that I'll never read.

I also have a weak spot for older (40's-60's) mystery/suspense and tend to collect them as well; it's highly doubtful I'll read them all, but one never knows.

Most of my books have been bought second hand (80% of them or more!) and some don't even have ISBNs, so the photo shown on LibraryThing may not actually be the copy I own. I plan to upload the ones that differ, but it may take me a while.

At first I wasn't going to list any books that were "only" my husbands: i.e., those bought with only him in mind, or before our marriage, or one's that I wasn't really interested in, but. . . Our tastes blend so often, and books that were belonged to just one of the other prior to marriage have become favorites of the other and, well, you know how it goes. Plus, I felt sort of silly going around one or two books to get to another, and all our books comprise OUR library, not just mine. So, to compromise, I'm labeling some "his", if they are books that are really "just his" more than mine, meaning they fit the above catagory. (And if this makes ANY sense at all, I award you with the super-special mind reader award!)

Homepagehttp://medbie.blogspot.com/

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LocationRamtop Mountains, Lancre

Emailgeekyhippiegmail.com

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Member sinceSep 9, 2005