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Reload by Warren Ellis
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
The Woman's Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life by Jennifer Louden
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
Bandit: Dossier of a Dangerous Dog by Vicki Hearne
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Favorite authorsAllyson Beatrice, Walter Benjamin, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman, Paul Graham, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Neil Lazarus, Harold McGee, Donald A. Norman, Naomi Novik, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sarah Waters (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Brier Creek Commons, Duke University Gothic Bookshop, Internationalist Books & Community Center, Nice Price Books, The Regulator Bookshop, White Rabbit Books
Favorite librariesDuke University Libraries - Perkins Library (Main Branch), Wake County Public Libraries - Holly Springs Library
About meEqual parts book geek and geek geek. Luckily for me, by day I get to mess around with the computers in a damned fine library. By night, I'm an information science grad student. But if I said any more I'd have to kill you...
Tag combining minimalist, work combining maximalist.
Profile pic is an actual photo. No, really.
Please note: I've suspended work on the combiners' Greasemonkey script -- the old version shouldn't do any harm, but please disable it if you're having trouble. If you want to work on something similar for new-style work pages, I'd be happy to bounce ideas around, but I'm not currently planning to do it myself, as the distinction between (new) works and debris pages has changed my workflow too much.
Either way, I'm glad I learned a bit about GM. It's a fun system to play with, and if you're new to it, there are a ton of examples at userscripts.org.
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The best thing I've ever read about love is the lead essay in Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. It's all about the fact that passion is a fine thing, but you know you're really in it for the long haul on the day you finally combine libraries. We started to mix when we realized we'd never keep track of whose books lived on which shelf, but we didn't go whole hog until we got the Cuecat.
The LT account is in my name because I'm the house dork by a very slim margin, but the books here are all utterly ours. Except for the really weird stuff. Ask the spouse about those...
Interests include comics, cookbooks, code, swords.
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* Books that make me go "huh": Included In The Present Classification.
* About the screen name: Thwack!.
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2.) Release to Contact Me - in my comments on this page regarding any errors you find in my Library (Combiners - THIS MEANS YOU!). Feel free also to contact me via comments if you disagree with any combining/separating I have done on LT, or any Common Knowledge contributions I've made.
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There's been a recent mini-outbreak of haiku on the topic of "Waiting for Collections" -- I thought, since you contributed a haiku in the past, you might want to join in the fun... Check out this thread and, of course, the LibraryThing Haikus page.
Silent
posted by SilentInAWay at 7:38 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2009
http://www.librarything.com/work/5336958...
Enjoy!
posted by retropelocin at 8:39 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2008
posted by belleyang at 8:23 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2008
posted by Sunni3 at 10:40 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2008
posted by ceili_woman at 8:51 am (EST) on Apr 11, 2008
Ciao bella,
Mateo
P.S. If you're curious, I have another LibraryThing account for the Preservation Trust of Springfield (Massachusetts) which is committed to promoting, protecting, and preserving the built architecture of Springfield (which has a wonderful housing stock of 1870-11910 Victorians). Our user name is "Preservationtrust".
posted by NEOBookClub at 4:02 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2008
dk_nj
posted by dk_nj at 5:29 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2008
I've started a second batch of bacon and have added 1/2 a cup of maple syrup and a few shots of Jack Daniels for extra flavor.
If you're buying a whole pork belly, you'll probably ask, "self, what else can I make with this pork belly?" (other than the 43 other obvious things from Charcuterie). We tried this recipe:
http://cheateat.typepad.com/blog/2005/07...
Incredibly good - we ended up subbing cilantro stems because our grocery didn't have fresh coriander. This stuff is fantastic but very rich.
I'm thinking about trying some pancetta next...
posted by stephmo at 4:18 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2008
We share The Complete Guide to Sewing (so amazing for Readers Digest book) and The Eyre Affair, which makes me happy.
posted by sonyagreen at 10:54 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008
I noticed you had a tag "needs cover" - you might want to check out this topic:
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...
Tim came up with a rough search that finds the books for you without having to tag them.
=)
posted by stephmo at 6:03 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2008
posted by belleyang at 8:25 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2007
Curses! That's encouraging! Another daydream now... :)
When I was at Tulane, the prof leading the fencing club was in his late fifties, BUT. He was on the Hungarian Olympic team in his yute, and certainly never took sabbaticals a couple decades long. Ironically, I was then in my twenties and already felt desperately aged and ossified--back home, even when I started at fifteen the trainers were muttering about lost opportunities, forfeited flexibility. Ideally, they'd get you at 8-9.
Oh, well.
posted by LolaWalser at 9:03 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2007
You should get back to it sometime!
Too hard on the knees... I'm nearly 20 years away from the last time I swashbuckled. But I do get fleeting regrets. Do you train actively? Would you advise an old lady of 38 to reapproach the piste?
posted by LolaWalser at 11:47 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007
I fenced when I was in high school (though not high-school related--we don't have school sports' teams).
posted by LolaWalser at 4:09 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2007
Yes, I'll see what shape these old, old books are in when I go home in September--I wouldn't be surprised if most disintegrate on touch. In the meantime, I found another way to entertain myself--upload the library of a dead man here on LT!
See you around!
posted by LolaWalser at 5:46 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2007