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About meWhat can I say, I guess I'm a renaissance guy... I'm equally at home rebuilding an engine and then installing it, spending hours lost amongst the shelves at The Strand, canning a batch of home made jam or hot sauce, installing a boiler, rolling out the hardware and software for a new website, hiking the Appalachian trail, or scouting out the best bowl of pho in Manhattan ! And I've just scratched the surface...

About my libraryThat's a tough one. I have a hard time letting books go, so I still have a lot of the ones i read 30 years ago! Plus a decent assortment I've been picking up here and there over the last few years. I tend to like non-fiction or literature best, but have found myself indulging in a lot of memoirs and fiction lately. Although I'm "banned" from bringing more books home (out of shelf space) I still manage to sneak a few new additions in every week!

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Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World by Gary Hirshberg

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Famous Fathers and Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff

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112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science by Burton Feldman

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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living: A Novel by Carrie Tiffany

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Yes!: 50 secrets from the science of persuasion by Noah Goldstein

When I checked my page, I saw you had a copy of my Book: "A Counselor Looks at the Big Book". I'd really be interested in knowing what you think about it. I'm an old retired Field Artillery NCO now working a second career and this is my first book.

posted by RickRhodes at 10:00 am (EST) on Nov 6, 2009

You may have already forgotten about the review you wrote about Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, but I wanted to respond to what you said about eating. When I lived in China, one of the first things I noticed was the padlock on the kitchen door in my apartment built for the Asian Games (1990). Later I remember being on a river cruise in Guangzhou when the buffet was opened for the passengers--an indescribable mob scene. I think that we Americans have no idea what it's like to be hungry, perhaps even starving. I've also read accounts about family life with Holocaust survivors in which their children talk about obsessive tendencies about food in their parents. So maybe this explains a bit about the food in TFRY!

I've just joined a week ago. I notice we share Escape from Freedom. I'd guess there might be others! I'll go read your review right now.

posted by bridgitshearth at 11:07 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2009

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