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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics) (v. 2) by Marcel Proust

What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations Of Philip K. Dick by Tim Powers

Freddy Rides Again by Walter R. Brooks

Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt

Gideon, Ahoy! by William Mayne

The Moffats by Eleanor Estes

King Of The Middle March (Horn Book Fanfare List (Awards)) by Kevin Crossley-Holland

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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.

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The Voyage of QV66 by Penelope Lively

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City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

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The Questing Knights of the Faerie Queen by Geraldine McCaughrean

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In A Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics) by Sheridan Le Fanu

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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

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