aye yes...Eclectic..
I believe in being well read,LOL
As a librarian,you understand this better than most.
It is not as important as watching CNN or reading your daily paper.
When in opening conversations,after the weather and sports are discussed ,what then?
If you have a keen interest on many subjects,you ask questions and find you have more to discuss than you origianlly thought.And if by chance the person to whom you are speaking to shares a passion,you were unaware of ..OHHH JOY!
Something to research when you go home. LOL

Do not let my library fool you though,I do not spend ALL my time with my nose in a book. I enjoy the outdoors a wee bit more..LOL

Nice place to reside (chesapeak Bay)
I am in northeast ohio, Up by the lake...

Celtic Folklore ,that one caught my eye ....If I may ask . Research reasons or heraldry ? or neither...LOL

For this chick,it was research and heraldry. My GGRandmother resided in Mann.
Interesting stuff about "little People" and leaving sweet cake and milk out your back stoop for them.

Take care...

posted by RealmReader at 9:36 pm (EST) on May 16, 2008

Always great to discover another Doc Savage fan and fellow bibliophile.

I'd love to have browsed those 30,000 volumes of yours prior to their re-release into the wild.

If only I had that much room to expand my collection. As is, most of my books are in storage, which makes me sad and it is so difficult to read in the dark in the boxes (sounds like a lost Dr. Seuss tale). But, for some reason, my wife doesn't believe books make great decorations for every rooom, plus since my kids were born priorities have shifted to the latest and greatest toys. So much plastic and so little time to digest it all!

Cheers,

Thomas

posted by kurvanas at 11:55 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2008

I'm a bit of a hippie myself, and upon stalking your myspace, discovered we live in the same state ;) Was happy to find that I wasn't the only one in the area. I'm not as outdoorsy as I used to be - have fallen farther into geekdom these days - but still dream of retiring on Crater Lake ;)

posted by sangretu at 4:22 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2008

!! an outdoor-loving ex monk hippie

ah, the stories you could tell.
i would love to get comfortable, green tea in hand, and read these tales-

cheers,
mary

posted by aznstarlette at 10:11 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2007

After reading your last comment I'm convinced that you talk like a poet. It must be all that reading you get to do (I don't still sound bitter, do I?)...

Your advice is good, of course. Taking several minutes for quality reading each day certainly makes the day go by easier. The truth is, my problem is discipline. It's difficult for me to read for only "several minutes" when I love reading for hours. I end up MAKING time for pleasure reading (like a couple hours time) so I don't go insane from just reading textbooks.

Tina

posted by TinazReading at 12:12 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2007

I'd like to state, for the record, that I'm very jealous of the fact that you read more than me. Childish, but true. My bibliophilic (is that a word?) tendencies urge me to make time for reading even if I have an exam the next day. Not good. In order to make good grades in college, I've attempted to cut down my reading time. That said, I recently finished reading Passage by Connie Willis as well as Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley. I started reading the latter today and finished it in one sitting. I'm still pondering what really happened to the main character at the end.

Tina (The jealous one)

posted by TinazReading at 12:06 am (EST) on Sep 15, 2007

Hi Track,

Your library really is interesting. As for your status as a bibliophile...rest assured, it is quite obvious :) Funny that you mentioned Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. It's been on my TBR list (not for college, just pleasure reading) for some time now. Read any good books lately?

Tina

posted by TinazReading at 9:56 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2007

So we are! I picked my copy up during a trip to Colonial Williamsburg. It seemed an interesting (and informative) souvenir at the time. What drew you to picking up a copy for yourself?

posted by bookwoman84 at 1:22 am (EST) on Sep 6, 2007

Thanks for joining the Stamps group! I know very little about American stamps. I wouldn't know that mint 65c Zeppelin was worth anything - I'm from England.

posted by fluteflute at 5:01 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2007

Thanks for the note. Yes, I am an odd mix to my friends. An interest of mine is military history and wilderness survival, which is where the SAS books come from. I am afraid that I am addicted to books, especially old religious books. I have the 4-volume, English Office and I've been praying it for going on three years now. I'm currently discerning my vocation (which is where Joy of Priesthood comes in), so hopefully will continue for a good long time.

Good stuff, books. Much better than TV.

-Brian

posted by bdouglass at 9:26 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2007

Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it! Thanks also for the recommendation. I have read Calvin's "A Brief History of the Mind" and will take a look at this one. Another book on that topic you might enjoy is "The Runaway Brain" by Wills.

posted by mkuijsten at 2:22 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2007

I'm from far north of you-- Shreveport. Those cajun folktales (and other kinds of folktales, too) have always been special to me.

Glad to hear about your religious and ancient language UCC pastor. I love languages, and I'm finally starting to learn Greek this fall!

posted by ecoody at 8:51 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2007

LibraryThing does not do a great job of cataloging sets. I think there are about a dozen of us here with the Thorndike. You're the second person to connect through it. You can't even get a single volume used these days for what the whole set cost new back in the day.

I'll look forward to your getting the rest of your library online.

posted by MMcM at 10:03 am (EST) on Jun 29, 2007

It is indeed interesting, and especially on the fact that we are on opposite sides of the country!...I have about 1400 of my 3 or 4,000 that I still have physically. At one time I had about 12,000 volumes, mainly esoteric and metaphysical studies and a lot of very old fiction but did manage to find a couple of private collectors who bought the bulk of my collection a few years ago. While I do not miss the selling of them, there is not a week that goes by that I do not have a need for one or more titles...alas...to be independently wealthy and with limitless shelf space!

I hope that the surgery went well and all are back onto the road to healing. I have worked in libraries since the age of 8 and am now working my way to 57...so I have always seemed to have worked around books...and I think I shall be there for quite a few more years.

Will have to try Davenport, and I continue to go back and reread Proust, although most consider it dry and boring or too tiresome, I find a certain degree of comfort in how he writes...I seem to be able to enmensh myself within the storyline...there is something comforting in settling down with a glass of absinthe before the fire with a good book and a close friend, and wander about the halls of conversation and retrospection.

Well, until some other time...

I remain your bibliophilic companion in the aethereal halls of cyberspace......

track aka oldmanriver

posted by oldmanriver1951 at 9:35 pm (EST) on May 13, 2007

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner, but my partner had surgery on the day you posted--and this is really the first time I have been at LibraryThing for more than a week. We do have similar interests in reading--on opposite coasts! I am a retired librarian and bibliophile, who has only put one room completely into LibraryThing (and it has the two smallest bookcases!) Am slowly working on three other rooms, with two to go after that. The "bibliographic" collection is a rough one, as much of it must be entered manually--not even one complete bookcase out of five. All my gay stuff is in, though a friend is sending about forty titles this week. I am really into reading Guy Davenport at the moment, and after reading Aciman's "Call me by your name" will give Proust another try, and eventually Joyce. I get through about ten books a month and only in maturity have come to understand more of what I read. Enough! curtwalt

posted by curtwalt at 12:45 pm (EST) on May 13, 2007