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The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection by Wendy Northcutt

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes **2 Volumes** The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Emblems of the Mind by Edward Rothstein

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill (Volume 2) the Dramatic Years 1895-1921 by Ralph G. Martin

The Case of the Etruscan Treasure by Robert Newman

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Member: radiokid81

Library1,078 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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TagsFiction (663), Children's (284), Series (277), Illustrated (207), History (204), Brit Lit (179), Adventure (137), Humor (111), Military History (83) — see all tags

Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, Baker Street and Beyond, Book Care and Repair, Christianity, Graduate Students, Inklings, Medicine, PaperBackSwap, Reformed Theology, Tea! — show all groups

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, Edmund Crispin, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jasper Fforde, C.S. Forester, Edward Gorey, H. Rider Haggard, Herge, M. R. James, Walt Kelly, Rudyard Kipling, C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, Frederick Marryat, A. A. Milne, E. Nesbit, Patrick O'Brian, Beatrix Potter, Howard Pyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rex Stout, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, P.G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresThe Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc.

Favorite librariesHoward County Library - Miller Branch

About me I believe that Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract. I love Jesus Christ, tea, music, the fine arts, science, literature, history, nature, snow, wood-burning fireplaces, slow food, old-time radio, people, solitude, knitting, dogs, and Scottish country dance.

"You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
– C.S. Lewis

About my library The Book Sale Finder is a useful site for avoiding new books in favor of used.

My Wish List:
1776 (David McCullough)
A History of the American People (Paul Johnson)
Adventures of Tintin books (Herge)
Amphigorey (Edward Gorey)
Cautionary Tales for Children (Hilaire Belloc)
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Daniel Deronda (George Eliot)
Dead Ned (John Masefield)
Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization (Diana West)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Lynne Truss)
Farmer Giles of Ham (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
How to be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!! (Neil Zawacki)
Jerry Todd series (Leo Edwards)
John Adams (David McCullough)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Live and Kicking Ned (John Masefield)
Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio (Randal H. Hall)
Men of Iron (Howard Pyle)
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, A Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt (David McCullough)
On Being Presbyterian (Sean Michael Lucas)
On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (John Dunning)
Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story (Jack Benny)
Sir Nigel (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Surprised By Joy (C.S. Lewis)
Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years with Pogo (Walt Kelly)
The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bronze Bow (Elizabeth George Speare)
The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New: A Simple Repair Manual for Book Lovers (Margot Rosenberg, Bern Marcowitz)
The Children of Hurin (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Children of the New Forest (Frederick Marryat)
The Clouds (Aristophanes)
The Dark Tower and Other Stories (C.S. Lewis)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Heart of Princess Osra (Anthony Hope)
The Histories (Herodotus)
The House of Sixty Fathers (Meindert Dejong)
The Ionian Mission (Patrick O'Brian)
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (Susanna Clarke)
The Linnet's Tale (Dale C. Willard)
The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (E.D. Hirsch)
The Not So Big House (Susan Susanka)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Reverse of the Medal (Patrick O'Brian)
The Story of English: Third Revised Edition (William McCrum, Robert McNeil, William Cran)
Their Finest Hour (Winston S. Churchill)
First Among Sequels (Jasper Fforde)

Anything I don't already have by Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Edmund Crispin, P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy Sayers

LocationOld Line State

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/radiokid81 (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/radiokid81 (library)

Member sinceSep 15, 2007

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Hi, radiokid, I just wanted to say your library sounds a lot like mine. As for radio, do you own any Bob and Ray tapes/CDs? The funniest men EVER in radio, for my money. Due to somewhat cramped living space, I have had to dispose of some of my personal library, but there's lots left. I have kept a number of classics, just about all my C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, Ray Bradbury, and J.R.R. Tolkien, to name a few. I've kept all the books I have every intention of reading again, and again, and again. I love reading works of Christian apologetics, SOME Christian fiction (Ted Dekker's novels, for instance, and Francine Rivers, and now, oh glorious, the Christ novels of Anne Rice), history, children's fiction (I'm a children's librarian), fine art books, some self-help books, etc. etc. I'm also a big Henry James fan; there aren't as many of us as there should be. So far, nearly every time I check my list of books against other people's here, we're ALL fans of Tolkien, Jane Austen, and J. K. Rowling. This is a fascinating place. All the best!

makeshifter (alias L. S. Potts)

posted by makeshifter at 11:20 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2008

Hello radiokid! I haven't seen you around before, but after reading your profile page I think we have a LOT in common! I have lots of books on your wishlist (have you ever heard of www.bookmooch.com? wonderful place to give away books you don't want — and get books you do, all for the cost of postage!). Unfortunately I happen to love our overlapped books and I'm not giving them away... but I'll let you know if I come across extra copies :-). I visit a lot of library booksales and thrift stores and I love used books too!

I'm a beliver in Reformed theology as well (actually I discovered that group through your profile — thanks!). John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul, and J.I. Packer are the primary theologians I've read on the subject, though my husband is working through Lorraine Boettner's classic defense of the doctrine. Having come from an Arminian background, we are very enthusiastic about the truths of God's amazing and sovereign grace. It is so freeing and hopeful — and I no longer have to gloss over all those uncomfortable verses in Ephesians and Romans :-)

Anyhow, I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I look forward to talking more with you!

~ww

posted by wisewoman at 2:22 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2007

Thanks for joining tbe 20-Something LibraryThingers group!

posted by LheaJLove at 8:10 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2007

Thank you. I have always loved that C.S Lewis quote (I say, as I sip my third large mug of tea). However, the older I get, and the more finite my time on Earth appears to be, the more I am afraid of long books. They tend to keep you from reading more shorter ones. And the darn things--whether they are mysteries, science fiction novels, etc.--seem to be getting longer and longer these days, for no good reason, as far as I can tell.

I am also with you on the "used" comment. I am way too extravagent when it comes to spending money on books. But it grates on me to spend $15 for some trade paperback reissue of a classic novel when one can buy a much cheaper used version--usually with a cooler cover-for $3 or less.

Cheers!

posted by oakesspalding at 7:05 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2007

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