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About my libraryThere are four big sections: young adult books, fantasy, history, and fiber arts. The YA comes from about eight years of working in indie bookstores specializing in kids' lit. I've mostly gotten over fantasy as a genre...but not completely. The history (mostly early modern Caribbean history) is left over from college, but I get back to it occasionally. And I am a happily obsessive knitter and spinner.

I've recently gone through a series of library purges--got rid of about 400 books in the last two years.

GroupsFeminist SF

Favorite authorsSherman Alexie, Kristin Cashore, Junot Díaz, Lynn Flewelling, Neil Gaiman, Steve Kluger, Christopher Moore, Gerald Morris, Nnedi Okorafor, Tamora Pierce, Neal Stephenson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Megan Whalen Turner, Bill Watterson (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresBorderlands Books, Copperfield's Books - Sebastopol, Moe's Books, Powell's Books on Hawthorne

Favorite librariesNew York Public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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Member sinceAug 16, 2006

Currently readingThe Scar by China Mieville
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea by Barbara Sjoholm
House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition by Mark Z. Danielewski
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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer

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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

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American Gods: Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman

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Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John

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Knit to Flatter: The only instructions you'll ever need to knit sweaters that make you look good and feel great! by Amy Herzog

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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra

re: porn & coconuts

There's this blogger -- now inactive, sadly -- that I love, Bitchy Jones. She wrote mostly about feminism and kink. She had a tag for stuff that could be found in normal, mundane media that, looked at a little different, could be considered kinky porn. I use the tag to indicate books that have snippets of erotica in them.

posted by rowmyboat at 1:39 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2012

really like your tags, funny and make me curious.
Kind regards
wandaX

posted by Pixelinchen at 5:04 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

I love that one of your tags is "passes the Bechdel test"!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 4:31 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2009

P.P.S. The Sharing Knife. Read it.

posted by infiniteletters at 7:19 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2008

Re: doomed stripped paperbacks

Join Bookmooch! Or another book trading site. :)
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Comparison_of_Book_Swapping_Websites

P.S. Dooooom

posted by infiniteletters at 6:34 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2008

oh, so true. i made sure to set all the covers to the right version!

posted by oquellesrimes at 3:25 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2008

The Scar, Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
Crystal Rain - Tobias Buckell
Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
Restoration , Revelation, Transformation - Carol Berg
Echo, Ecstasia, the Hanged Man, Primavera - Francesca Lia Block
Elsewhere, Nevernever - Will Shetterly
Melusine, the Virtu - Sarah Monette
those Blue Moon books
those Dhampir books
those Ukiah Oregon books

and if any of these are parts of series, the rest of them too!

(okay, this is a lot...maybe I can't afford all of this shipping. but! maybe some of them are already at school, or you'd be bringing them anyway. and of course if it is too much, I trust you to pick the best ones!)

posted by fullbloom at 7:22 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2008

I am definitely sure! I am working on the list as we speak.

posted by fullbloom at 7:03 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2008

In adding all of my books, I'm realizing that most of the fantasy I've read is not very good. I know it's hard to bring lots of books from CA, but I will pay for media mailings of books that I need to be reading!

posted by fullbloom at 5:20 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2008

May be I'll be a better tagger now that you have inspired me.

posted by Nikkles at 6:23 pm (EST) on Jun 17, 2008

Hi, I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your tags, they are much more creative then mine. :)

posted by Nikkles at 10:26 am (EST) on Jun 14, 2008

Emma, I too alphabetize my books. And my art books are arranged first chronologically by period, then alphabetically by artist for monographs. We do this because we are *awesome*.

posted by fullbloom at 9:12 pm (EST) on May 28, 2008

hi piratequeen

i saw we shared some favourites - lorna freeman and megan whalen turner - & i was wondering whether you know of any good pirate fantasy? I've just read 'Inda' & 'The Fox' by Sherwood Smith - possibly my favourite books of 2007...

posted by puddleshark at 11:10 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2008

yep :)

posted by naseemga at 10:09 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2008

hello :)
my aunt illustrated the book "tales of two canines:the adventures of a wolf and a dog"
yep thats all...oh and i love pirates too (im considering being one when i grow up but i have no boat and no money but could always resort to stealing one, after all thats what pirates do.

posted by naseemga at 4:51 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2007

HA
I found you ♥

posted by fullbloom at 2:57 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2007

Kittah!!! *glomps the kittah* That picture is so cute. ^_^ Just needed to let you know, which I'm sure you do already. :P

posted by Hershey249 at 11:52 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2007

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