Random books from melannen's library

About me A simple twentysomething doing her best to avoid Real Life. Books have always been my drug of choice.

ETA: Friending policy (alas for the days when this was one site that didn't need one!) I like friends, but I am a fairly introverted person, and I'm much more likely to reply to a friend request if I know why you want to be friends - if I've never met you (or don't know you by your lt name) it's probably not a bad idea to leave me a comment saying hi while you're at it. Feel free to add me to watch lists or interesting libraries whenever you like, though! That takes no effort on my part. :D

About my library This house is full of books. I personally rarely buy one that costs more than $.50, but considering the number of flea markets, used book sales, and thrift stores I frequent, that doesn't actually limit the number. Books with the SF or YA tag are actually in my and my sister's combined collection; someday Mom will get sick of having it in her house and we will have to split it up. We'll probably need to hire a divorce lawyer. Books with the Uncles tag were duplicate copies given to us by our uncles, who have even more ridiculously large SF collections than we do, but don't waste nearly as much time online. Books with the 'parascience' tag are in my library of occult/folklore/paranormal/mystical/anomalist/mythology/pseudoscience/religion/etc volumes. The others should be self-explanatory.

Skstarwars, currently working on outgrowing its free account, tracks my sister's and my ongoing attempt to own every Star Wars book ever published. (Ten years ago we tried to do that with Star Trek, but quit and passed the collection on to our mother.)

I'm slowly working on adding books to this account by hand, since my old catalog uses LC numbers instead of ISBNs. Considering that my last estimate for books-in-house was in the ballpark of 3,000, that may take a while.

Homepagehttp://www.livejournal.com/~melannen

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Locationmaryland

Emailmelannenyahoo.com

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/melannen (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/melannen (library)

Member sinceOct 8, 2005

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Regarding Strangers in Paradise book 2, it actually really is book 2. Volume 1 was a 3-issue mini-series published by Antarctic Press. The book you picked up was the 9-issue run under Abstract Studios. Volume three starts out with Image and later moves back to Antarctic Press, but the numbering doesn't reset that time and it goes up to issue #90! But they were published in order miniseries then 9-issue series then the last 90 issues and I think they are meant to be read that way. Very confusing :)

Even if you read them through in order, the story sometimes jumps around a little in time, so it's no big deal that you read #2 first. Just thought I'd let you know that there really is a #1 though in case you ever feel like looking for it :)

posted by evethejust at 3:41 am (EST) on Apr 20, 2008

Welcome to Books Compared. It's great to have your perspective on things!

posted by margad at 11:23 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2008

Thanks for the non-haiku.

posted by DromJohn at 3:39 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2007

It is incredibly sad that I had to look up paypal receipts in my gmail account to remember, but yes, yes I did in fact by skstarwars a lifetime account. I must have wanted to add something and was v v upset that I could not? haha.

*goes to figure out how to reorganize all her books, again*

posted by stellar_dust at 3:01 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2007

Hi.. if you're around tonight, and could resend me your scavenger hunt answers (for the result post!), that's be great.. wish I'd copied them while they were still up!

posted by jjlong at 8:32 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2007

Interestingly, my childhood memories include launching Laura Lee Hope "reading wars" with my classmates - I think 4 books in one day was a high point :) Not counting actual class time and homework...

posted by Mithril at 10:27 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2006

You and I only share one book in common, but we are also the only two people with the book! A sweater pattern book put out by Lion Brand years ago. I also have a livejournal account... I'm marclar.

posted by sassette00 at 10:21 am (EST) on Jun 29, 2006

Awesome! You have all the kids books I want to have: Joan Aiken, Beverly Cleary, Roald Dahl, Misty of Chincoteague, Bunnicula, E.L. Konigsburg, Shiloh, the list goes on and on!

I think LibaryThing should have separate lists for books we wished we had. That way we could keep track! lol

posted by courtneyweg at 2:51 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2006

do comics have ISBNs?

posted by stellar_dust at 6:48 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2006

I know, I know, I am not a Jedi yet. d-:

posted by stellar_dust at 6:40 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2006

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