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CollectionsYour library (3,281), SF and YA (1,212), Nonfiction (584), Parascience (418), Comics and art (257), Poetry, plays, and lit (15), special collection (5), Self-sufficiency (23), Writing and writers (6), Dover (12), Collectible YA (110), Currently reading (34), Pamphlets, maps, ephemera (206), cookery (45), Stored (732), Wishlist (148), Read but unowned (43), Star Trek (3), Mom's books (471), No longer owned (722), All collections (4,718)

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Tagsmoved (1,697), read (1,590), sf (1,302), series (1,057), wrong cover (1,015), paperback (796), shelved:pbf (769), stored (684), nonfiction (603), mom's house (468) — see all tags

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Groups1013, Arthurian Legends, Boats and Sailing, Book Arts, Book Care and Repair, Book Sales, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Books Compared, Bookshelf of the Damned, Broke! —show all groups

Favorite authorsPauline Ashwell, Jane Austen, Richard Bach, Elizabeth H. Boyer, Katharine Mary Briggs, L. Sprague de Camp, Diane Carey, Lewis Carroll, Daniel Cohen, Diane Duane, Alan Dean Foster, Stephen Jay Gould, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thom Gunn, E. W. Hildick, Laura Lee Hope, Molly Ivins, Diana Wynne Jones, Astrid Lindgren, Patricia A. McKillip, Daniel Pinkwater, H. Beam Piper, Elizabeth Marie Pope, Stephen Potter, Terry Pratchett, Joel Rosenberg, Eric Frank Russell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Odell Shepard, L. Neil Smith, Caroline Stevermer, Rosemary Sutcliff, G. B. Trudeau, Elizabeth Willey, Patricia C. Wrede, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBlue Ridge Hospice Purcellville Thrift Shop, Goodwill - Millersville, Twilite Zone Comics

Favorite librariesAnne Arundel County Public Library - West County Area Library

Other favoritesNational Book Festival, Ann Arrundell County Historical Society Book Sale, Capclave 2009, Baltimore Comic-Con 2008

About meA 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 libraryThis 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.)

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Member sinceOct 8, 2005

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Hello,

I have just found you via a comment on one of the groups and wanted to say that I absolutely love the 'question' that carterchristian also praised. It also spoke to me and describes exactly how I feel about my books and how I handle them.

Many thanks

Bigpinkchimp (Ruth)

posted by Bigpinkchimp at 1:50 am (EST) on Aug 17, 2011

Hi! I just stumbled across your review of Ogburn's [The Winter Beach], and smiled because (having not yet read it) I made the same assumption about it that you did about its contents. As a fellow fan of shabby Americana (and coastal geomorphology!) I've just put it on my "read soon" list . . . thanks for a great review!

posted by ABVR at 8:29 pm (EST) on Jul 10, 2011

You wrote this several years ago....came across it,and I just wanted to say..it really spoke to me, affirms my collection which seems to large. I have started going back to a boc of books (not enough shelves) and simply handle a group I have not looked at in a long way in exactly this way. Thanks.

"'What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you cannot read them, at the very least handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open as they will. Read on from the first sentence that turns the eye. Then turn to another. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Set them back on their shelves with your own hands. Arrange them on your own plan, so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition."

posted by carterchristian1 at 12:32 am (EST) on Jul 4, 2011

Quite possibly it is one you took!

posted by katycat at 6:36 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2011

Hey fellow WriMo! Love your profile pic! I just asked to be your LT friend and your NaNo buddy too. Hope you'll say "yes."

posted by Storeetllr at 12:40 am (EST) on Oct 27, 2010

In fact I have several copies of the the Necronomicon, and yes, I also have the Lesser Key of Solomon ;-)

posted by BarkingMatt at 2:48 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2010

Can you imagine the cataloging standards for that library? :)

posted by infiniteletters at 6:59 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

Re perfumes, check out www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com (BPAL)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Phoenix_Alchemy_Lab

posted by infiniteletters at 5:57 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

LOL! What a present! I love all the bookmarks. Thanks!

posted by Morphidae at 10:58 am (EST) on Dec 14, 2008

Heigh ho, me hearty! I see you have a copy of “A Pirate of Exquisite Mind” in your library. The Highly-Rated Book Group is boarding the Pirate Ship of William Dampier and heading off into the high seas for a rollicking Buccaneering Adventure in the wild blue yonder. We are splicing the main brace and trimming the sails to set off with the tide on 3rd November 2008. So don’t be a landlubber, come and swash some buckles by climbing on board at:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/apirateofexquisitemi

-TT

posted by TheTortoise at 2:33 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2008

Love your logo. I could make out the word "pathology" in the text of the book, but not much else. Ve-ry mysterious. Nice job!

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 3:05 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2008

I combined all the Carmen Carters and separated (and combined) all the David Carters, so if you changed your book to Carmen feel free to combine yours with the Carmens if it hasn't already done so.

posted by shmjay at 9:03 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

Re: Alice

Hm, yes, good point. I try to collect those Alice tie ins. But I will try to keep in the spirit of things.

posted by BarkingMatt at 7:47 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2008

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

Hello,
in combining works by Upton Sinclair, I noticed you catalogued "Main Street" as written by him. Actually, Main Street is by Sinclair Lewis. Could you be so kind as to correct your entry? This way it will be possible to combine it properly.
Many thanks.
:-))

posted by aluvalibri at 8:16 am (EST) on Jan 25, 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