Member: mollygrace

CollectionsYour library (2,232)

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Tagsnovel (812), memoir (168), history (98), biography (84), young reader (77), essays (64), poetry (62), short stories (60), stories (59), children (53) — see all tags

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GroupsNew York Review Books, What Are You Reading Now?

About meI'm a retired teacher (reading, English, American history) who lives alone in a two-bookroom apartment (the bed is tucked away in a corner between the poetry anthologies and the 1959 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica).

I suppose you'd call me a recluse. I'm slightly agoraphobic, though my friends insist it's a selective kind of agoraphobia -- for instance, it vanishes completely when I feel the need to visit a favorite bookshop.

I read and read and read and sometimes try my hand at writing (which quickly sends me scurrying back to the work of the true writers). I'm not very knowledgeable about computers so it may be awhile before I can take full advantage of your lovely website.

I look nothing like Emily Dickinson (though we may have the same hairdresser) but I've loved her since I memorized "If I can stop one heart from breaking . . . " in second grade, so I hope she won't mind if I use her picture.

About my libraryThere is no great plan for my library -- it just seems to grow. Books lead me to other books, authors to other authors. I think of my books as old friends -- we've been through so much together.

Novels and short story collections make up the largest section of my library. Other interests: art, biography/memoir, children's literature, music, architecture, theology, photography, poetry, film, stage, history and geography.

Favorites A to Z:

Annie Dunne
Bird Artist, The
Catherwood
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Eva Moves the Furniture
Feather on the Breath of God, A
Grief
Homestead
In Country
Jim the Boy
Kate Vaiden
Last Night at the Lobster
Make Way for Ducklings
Nothing To Do But Stay
Opposite the Cross Keys
Periodic Table, The
Queenie Peavy
Regeneration
So Long, See You Tomorrow
Time and Again
Uncle Tungsten
Visit to Don Otavio, A
Whitewater
X-it Lines (Exit Lines)
Year of Magical Thinking, The
JaZZ

Yes, I have a thing for alphabetical order; yes, I cheated a bit on X and Z; yes, the list will change from time to time -- I have many, many favorites.

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Member sinceJul 26, 2009