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No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym

Feng Shui Your Life by Jayme Barrett

The Taxi That Hurried (Family Storytime) by Irma Simonton Black

Great Children's Stories: Classic Volland by Frederick Richardson

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin

Rabbit and his friends by Richard Scarry

Heidi (Children's Classics) by Johanna Spyri

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Member: msggoat

Library1,079 books — see library

Reviews8 reviews — see reviews

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Tagschildren's (415), picturebook (279), golden (165), read (163), pb (157), favorite (148), fiction (146), lgb (134), illustrated (117), dj (111) — see all tags

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, Blank Generation, Book Arts, Book Collectors, Book Fiend, Book Lovers Who Love Fountain Pens, Book Organizers, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, BookCrossers, BookMooching — show all groups

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Woody Allen, Marie Angel, Karen Armstrong, Jane Austen, Nicholson Baker, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jan Brett, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Wendy Cope, Demi, T. S. Eliot, Eloise Wilkin, E. M. Forster, Tibor Gergely, Edward Gorey, Thomas Hardy, Patricia Highsmith, Lillian Hoban, Elizabeth Orton Jones, Maud Hart Lovelace, Diana L. Paxson, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Beatrix Potter, Anne Rice, Feodor Rojankovsky, Robert Sabuda, Richard Scarry, Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, Maurice Sendak, Jon Stewart, Gustaf Tenggren, Tasha Tudor, Anne Tyler, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eloise Wilkin, Garth Williams, Kit Williams (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAtomic Books, Borders - Timonium, Daedalus Books & Music - Columbia, Daedalus Books and Music - Belvedere Square, Drusilla's Books, Gramp's Attic Books, Normals, The Children's Bookstore, The Children\'s Bookstore, Inc., The Ivy Bookshop, The Kelmscott Bookshop

Other favoritesBaltimore Book Festival, Johns Hopkins - Homewood Campus, The Walters Art Museum

About me See my LiveJournal, MySpace, and Amazon profiles. I'm also on Facebook.

I have a web site that features some interesting information about/images of children's books. I haven't updated it in ages, but it's still fun.

About my library

I've just moved 30 boxes of my books (the secondary tier of my library) into my apartment in the suburbs, including my Little Golden Books! Now the "meat" of the collection is all in-house and there's a lot to catalog. A southern "annex" of my library (the tertiary tier?) resides at my parents' house in Baltimore. I'm including many books that my mother owns (mostly classics and British lit in multiple copies, and theology) because we share a lot and I can borrow what I like. *My* books at my parents' consist of discards from the local branch of the public library a few blocks away, art and calligraphy books, college texts, thrift store finds, other things that won't fit in my apartment, Golden Book records and "Books of Knowledge", and stuff to give away or sell.

Homepagehttp://www.myspace.com/msggoat

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Real nameLaurie A

LocationTimonium, Maryland

Emailmsgoatgoatwebs.com

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Member sinceAug 18, 2007

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Well, it's more than just the covers of Asbury's books that are lurid. I can't really shelve his stuff with "history," it's more like "creative journalism." I tag his stuff as "low life" (in honor of the Luc Sante book of that title which is subtitled "Lures and Snares of Old New York," and which covers much of the same ground) and "underworld." This latter is a wider-ranging tag that covers a plethora of subcultural books I own. Take a look at that tag to see some of the strange stuff I have picked up here and there.

Please forgive the lateness of this reply. I go through periods of intense activity here on librarything, punctuated by long periods of dormancy. Same with wikipedia and last.fm.

posted by theoldanarchist at 12:23 am (EST) on Sep 20, 2007

Thanks for adding me to your "interesting libraries."

Even more interesting is that I grew up in Lutherville!

posted by superfastreader at 8:54 am (EST) on Sep 11, 2007

Hi, Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list! It looks like we have several books in common. Take care,
bookie

posted by bookiemonster81 at 12:50 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2007

Hi Laurie,

I was just browsing your myspace blog and I see we also have similar interests in films. Have you seen
the Brother's Quay film 'Institute Benjamenta'? It's available on Netflix of all places. I haven't watched it
yet, although it's been in my que for months!

I also see that you attended Vassar. It was a school I longed to attend but life led me elsewhere.
Tell me more about your time there, if you'd like to.

Cate

posted by bleuroses at 9:05 pm (EST) on Aug 25, 2007

Hello Laurie!

Thanks for adding my library to your watch list! That's so cool!
Was it the A.S.Byatt favourites? Which titles have you read?

Her quartet beginning with "Virgin in the Garden" are my
desert island reads. I've read the first two "Virgin in the Garden" & "Still Life"
3 times, "Babel Tower" twice - and (I'm afraid) zero for "The Whistling Women".

I see that we both admire redredshoes' library too!

Cate

posted by bleuroses at 5:28 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Asbury wrote a whole series of books, all of which were republished after the Scorcese film under similar titles: Gangs of Chicago, Gangs of New Orleans, etc. If you like Gangs of New York, you should check out Luc Sante's Low Life---but, also read Nick Tosches' King of the Jews, which corrects a number of errors Sante made. The Tosches book is interesting just for its own sake, though.

posted by theoldanarchist at 12:31 am (EST) on Aug 22, 2007

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