Random books from nmoira's library

The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker

Confessions of a Crap Artist (Vintage) by Philip K. Dick

The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson

Astro Boy, Vol. 20 by Osamu Tezuka

Gallimaufry: A Hodge-Podge of Words Vanishing from Our Vocabulary by Michael Quinion

Death in Zanzibar by M. Kaye, M.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Yearling Books) by Madeleine L'Engle

Members with nmoira's books

Member connections

Friends: abjb, alharris, cinnamon67, EdwardEinhorn, meandmybooks, muttix3, OliviaBrooks123, Saille, scrappyhappymama

Interesting libraries: abjb, amira, cinnamon67, CoreFoundations, latinitas, livinglighthouse, meandmybooks, Rose_D, Sharonkay, triviumacademy

LibraryThing authors: K.P. Bath (Cantling), Eric Berlin (EricBerlin), Sharon Kay Penman (Sharonkay), Jonathon Green (abecedary), Andrew Matthews (andrewbm), Chitra Divakaruni (chitradivakaruni), Andrew Campbell (latinitas), Trevor Corson (trevor_corson)

RSS feeds

Recently-added books

nmoira's reviews

Reviews of nmoira's books, not including nmoira's

Member: nmoira

CollectionsYour library (2,345)

ReviewsNone

Tagschildren (1,692), fiction (1,477), fantasy (592), series (456), humour (347), homeschool (327), England (307), nonfiction (285), British author (240), history (223) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

GroupsAncient History, British & Irish Children's Fiction, Canadian History for Canadian Kids, Children's Fiction, Children's Literature, Fairy Tale Readers, Homeschool Home Libraries, Homeschoolers, Homeschoolers who LibraryThing, INTPs — show all groups

Favorite bookstoresMultnomah County Library - Title Wave Used Books, Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Powell's City of Books

Favorite librariesMultnomah County Library - Albina Branch

About my libraryI am an avid collector of children's literature. My oldest is a voracious reader and it is difficult to keep ahead of her.

Also onFacebook

LocationPortland, Oregon

Favorite authorsNone

Account typepublic, lifetime

Connection NewsConnection News

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

Common KnowledgeSeries (401), Awards (356), Characters (4503), Places (753)

Member sinceSep 7, 2006

Most recent activity

nmoira added:
The Wind Eye by Robert Westall

nmoira added:
The Ogress and the Snake and Other Stories from Somalia (Folktales from Around the World) by Elizabeth Laird

nmoira added:
The Magic Walking Stick (Kelpies) by John Buchan

nmoira added:
A Seal Flies By by R. H. Pearson

nmoira added:
The Young Alexander the Great (Young Biographies) by Naomi Mitchison

nmoira added:
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume III by Diana Wynne Jones

Hi! Glad we're friends!

posted by OliviaBrooks123 at 10:31 pm (EST) on Jun 7, 2009

You have a wonderful collection of children's books! And we're the only two LTers who own Prefabulous Animiles!

posted by miss_read at 1:36 pm (EST) on May 1, 2007

Heh. Done and ordered. The CN Tower's on the front cover; makes it impossible to miss.

posted by alharris at 9:34 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2007

Thanks; will check it out right away.

posted by alharris at 9:21 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2007

ROM scifi -- are you thinking of Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God? There's a vampire novel that takes place partly in and around the ROM: Tanya Huff's Blood Lines (1993). I'll check out the Dennis Lee right away.

posted by alharris at 2:20 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2007

Hmm ... haven't read Stiff; since switching gears I've been reading mostly about the living. But if you know any scifi set in Toronto, I'll be happy to hear about it (got Robert Sawyer, Guy Gavriel Kay, Cory Doctorow down pat, but not much else). I'm doing research right now on long forgotten Toronto women writers such as Phyllis Brett Young (The Torontonians (1960); Psyche (1959)) and Joyce Marshall Lovers and Strangers (1957)). Nobody seems to remember their work, which is very hard to find; and yet it clearly foregrounds / forecasts the rise of the subsequent generation(s) of women's writers including Margaret Atwood who, starting out in the early 1960s, could not have helped but be very aware of their predecessors' work.

Should we get around to procreating, I'll look forward to pillaging your library titles. And if you come across any good children's books set in Toronto (beyond Bernice Thurman Hunter and Gordon Korman), I'll add them as well.

As for total library size, I think people tend to exaggerate how many books they've got. I did a spine-by-spine count a couple of years ago for insurance purposes and came up with slightly fewer than 5000 titles. How disappointing! I would guess we're at about 6000 now (especially as I've gotten better at balancing intake with culling titles we'll never make use of), but the house (which is big enough) is coming close to capacity (not that this means we'll stop anytime soon). LibraryThing becomes a kind of truth test ... Heh.

posted by alharris at 8:17 am (EST) on Mar 11, 2007

Hey Moira;

Thanks to your suggestion last fall, I've finally gotten around to putting my own Librarything catalogue together. They should pay you a commission here for referrals.

Amy

posted by alharris at 10:04 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2007

Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /