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CollectionsYour library (1,145)

Reviews20 reviews

Tagscartoons (81), popcorn (46), teaching (43), unread (30), memoir (26), misunderstood bloodsuckers (26), metabooks (18), why is he a nutbar? (14), writing (12), fencing (12) — see all tags

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GroupsCrambo!, The Green Dragon

Favorite bookstoresSmith Family Bookstore - Campus

Favorite librariesUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Main Stacks

Other favoritesFriends of the Oak Park Public Library Annual Book Fair

About meI wish I had more time to read novels. One day I will buy a house with a room I can make into a library and get built-in wall-to-wall shelves installed. Sigh.

About my library"And the case even of private libraries is becoming, nay, has become, very serious for all who are possessed by the inexorable spirit of collection, but whose ardor is perplexed and qualified, or even baffled, by considerations springing from the balance-sheet."
-- William Ewart Gladstone, from On Books and the Housing of Them

This is the stuff I own. Mostly I'm too lazy to rate it, but if it were terrible I'd have gotten rid of it. Five (5) stars means I think everyone should read it, and support the authors (if alive) because those books are just so good. I'm probably missing a few of the books that are in my office.

My TBR pile has about 35 books in it (counting library- and other borrowed books).
My wishlist has about 80 books on it.

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Member sinceJul 3, 2007