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About meI'm an avid reader of fiction, especially the kind that can make me both think and laugh. I try to keep up with some of the current titles while at the same time chiseling away at the pile of classics I'm embarrassed not to have already read. Non-fiction interests tend toward biography and memoir, cooking, travel writing, science, and cultural studies. I work as a librarian so my to-be-read list grows exponentially. I normally have two books going at a time: one for myself, and one for out-loud with my daughter, who has clearly inherited the book gene.

About my libraryI descend from a long line of packrats and bibliophiles. Those ancestors having now entered that great archive in the sky, I am the lucky inheritor of their collected volumes as well as their bookish proclivities. Hence there are a lot of books around here. I'm not sure I want to read them all, but it's my lot to at least organize and dust them for future generations. I am a casual collector of modern first editions, particularly mysteries and children's books. My facilitating (read: co-dependent) husband used to buy me a new bookcase for Christmas every year until there was no more room for bookcases. I really have no sense of how many volumes there are - I am going to guess 3000 and will see how close I come.

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Currently readingCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Family Happiness: A Novel (Perennial Fiction Library) by Laurie Colwin
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novel by Irvine Welsh
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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Worlds beyond the horizon by Joachim G. Leithäuser

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Hammond's Historical atlas by C.S. Hammond & Company.

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Hammond's American history atlas by C.S. Hammond & Company.,

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Antique radios : restoration and price guide by David Johnson

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Nothing to fear; the selected addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932-1945 by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Sew it yourself by Marylis Muhlhauser

we share 18 book entries of my 200ish, and you gave me three of them. it would be more if you'd gotten the children's books in, i think.

posted by aldoesntreadenough at 7:14 pm (EST) on May 19, 2009

Hi, I just joined this site. I noticed that you're a poetry fan. Have you read Unexpected Light? Here's a link: http://www.cechaffin.com

posted by CraigChaffin123 at 10:19 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I'm adding you also. I had a nice browse through your library this morning. I especially enjoyed your old children's books.

posted by lesliecp at 11:38 am (EST) on Jul 31, 2008

Good morning to you as well! It's a pleasure to meet another home-grown (if out-of-state) Californian. We are getting to be pretty rare birds. My son is a native as well, born in San Francisco, but his sister is very much a New Yorker! I was so pleased to see the Children of Many Lands books in your history. I very much recall Little Rose of the Mesa and Little Jeanne of France, even though I read them many years ago. I, too, have inherited libraries (my great-grandmother was a founder of the Hollywood Browning Society and I have her books, plus my parents' childhood libraries). I went to Los Angeles High, which is Bradbury's alma mater as well as David Brin's (he was in my class and a good friend), and I just can't seem to stop reading in all. I don't dare add the books I want to read or I plan to read, so I just find writers or lists I'm intrigued with or whatever my reading group is into this month. We're going to celebrate Harry Potter's birthday in July, so it should be a lively meeting.

posted by Prop2gether at 12:20 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2008

Hiya! You are one of only 3 of us who have "The Tiger in the Teapot" in their library. It was one of my favorites as a child, so I like to say "hello" to anyone who has also read it.

Have a great day!! J. Bower

posted by jbeth at 5:18 am (EST) on May 27, 2008

One of a kind is rather an understatement, I think. Incredibly eccentric, wildly funny, and always kind, thoughtful, and human.

On the last day of class I got him to sign it. He wrote, "To ---, with deepest condolences that she has to read it."

posted by istartedthejoke at 5:34 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2008

Thanks! The author was actually my favorite college professor.

posted by istartedthejoke at 5:11 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2008

Hello,
Thanks for putting me on your 'Interesting Libraries' list. I am always pleased when someone does this as it shows that I am doing something right with the way I'm putting me collection together.
I do like your comment about Bookcases,and believe me I understand perfectly. I wouldn't like to think of the number of cases that we have here.
Anyway nice to hear from you and all the best from the UK.

posted by devenish at 3:18 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2008

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