Hi, my name is Dawn and I am a librarian and the host of Toronto Public Library’s online book club: Book Buzz and a fellow LibraryThing member.

This month we are reading Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson. I noticed that you include Thunderstruck in your library and I’d just like to invite you to visit us and share your thoughts about Larson’s book. I enjoyed reading your review - so I thought I'd drop you a line.

Anyway, it’s a friendly easy-going book club with over 400 members and we are always looking for new points of view.

If you are interested, visit us at http://bookbuzz.torontopubliclibrary.ca .

Thank-you for your time,
Dawn
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Book...

posted by BookBuzz at 6:33 pm (EST) on Sep 12, 2007

We finally visited your favorite bookstore. Thanks for the tip.

posted by Othniel at 12:36 am (EST) on Mar 1, 2007

My whole catalog is just books I have read. I love books, (I work in a library) I don't hang on to them. I want to share them. My library is always changing. Thanks for the reply.

posted by dara85 at 12:35 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2006

dara85,

I have been thinking about doing that--I think you mean books I have read but do not own? I guess I would use the comment section to differentiate between them? I still don't have all my owned books entered either--just got two new huge bookcases and have been shifting books around (and sneezing and being sore from bending, stooping, reaching etc--shows how out of shape I am).

posted by sharonk21 at 12:59 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

Dear Sharonk21,

I hope that you will include some of the books you have read. Then we would share even more books!

posted by dara85 at 1:58 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2006

My father used to say that I would march down the aisle reading a book. He was not far off. My grandfather taught me to read before I went to school and I've been doing it, eclectically (indiscriminately?), ever since. I'm a 63-year-old Texas woman and my library reflects several phases of my career or education (historian, epidemiologist, social sciences, psychology, and ethology). It also reflects my dominant trait: curiosity. Hence my love of mystery and true crime. Also my love of diaries, journals, memoirs. Like most avid readers I often find an author I like and then wallow in that author's books. Additionally, I often, quite by accident, happen upon a topic that unexpectedly strikes my fancy and I will seek out 3 to 6 more books on the topic before the fascination with the subject is satiated: two that come to mind are 'The Bloomsbury Group' and 'Asperger's Syndrome.' Of course, my library fails to reflect the fact that there is a limit to the amount of books I can keep and my omnivorous approach to reading that determines I read also library books, friend's books, cereal boxes, etc.

posted by sharonk21 at 11:33 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2006