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Diving into the wreck; poems, 1971-1972 by Adrienne Cecile Rich

The Illuminated Manuscript by Janet Backhouse

The happy table of Eugene Walter : Southern spirits in food and drink : an ardent survey of Southern beverages and a grand selection of Southern dishes employing spiritous flavorings by Donald Goodman

Voyages of discovery : three centuries of natural history exploration by A. L. Rice

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CollectionsYour library (4,990), ebooks (3), arcs (476), audio (5), articles (1), Wishlist (2,823), All collections (8,295)

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Favorite authorsPeter Ackroyd, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, John Banville, Pat Barker, Doris Betts, William Blake, Roberto Bolaño, Emily Brontë, Albert Camus, John le Carré, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, Susanna Clarke, Mary Daly, Samuel R. Delany, Emily Dickinson, Philip K. Dick, Annie Dillard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dorothy Dunnett, Gerald Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Umberto Eco, Nawal El-Saadawi, Carolyn Forché, Shirley Hazzard, Homer, Zora Neale Hurston, Tove Jansson, Sébastien Japrisot, Rudyard Kipling, Naguib Mahfouz, Andreï Makine, W. Somerset Maugham, John McPhee, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Adrienne Rich, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Simon Schama, Olive Schreiner, Freya Stark, Wallace Stevens, John Thorne, J. R. R. Tolkien, Barry Unsworth, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, Alec Wilkinson, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBlue Elephant Book Shop, Bookshop by the Lakes, Country Bookshop Inc., Dee Gee's Gifts & Books, Pomegranate Books, Quarter Moon Books, The Fountain Bookstore, Inc., Two Sisters Bookery

Favorite librariesNew Hanover County Public Libraries - Main Library, New Hanover County Public Library - Law Library, New Hanover County Public Library - Northeast Branch, Pender County Public Library - Hampstead Branch, Pender County Public Library-Central Library, Randall Library, UNC Wilmington

Favorite publishersNYRB Classics

About meI've been a bookseller for over twenty years and I'm really good for nothing else.

About my libraryIt has a life of it's own. I'm sorry to say that everything in the "your library collection" is also in the house. I had to move once because the weight of the books cause the floor of my house to drop about four inches below the adjoining walls.

The collections in my catalog:

Your library: my actual library of my actual books. All present and accounted for and taking up a ridiculous amount of space.

Arcs: Galleys, advanced review copies, bound manuscripts, and otherwise not-quite-finished.

Audio Books on tape, CD, iTunes--and because The Arkangel Shakespeare deserved it's own special place.

Wishlist: This is more of a "I might be interested" list than a "I want that" list. I add books as they capture my attention from reviews or recommendations. I also use this list to keep track of the entire list of published books by authors I am interested in. I take a completist view towards my favorite authors, so I like to know which books I might still be missing from my real world library.

Here's a video tour of the library, where it is distressingly obvious how little housekeeping I do.

Library Tour from Nicki Leone on Vimeo.

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Real nameNicki Leone

LocationWilmington, North Carolina

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Member sinceMay 1, 2007

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southernbooklady added:
The book club cookbook : recipes and food for thought from your book club's favoritebooks and authors by Judy Gelman

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The book lover by Maryann McFadden

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Why read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick (read review)

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Juliette Gordon Low : the remarkable founder of the Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery

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The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff

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Civil war by Lucan

I'm (slowly... most are in storage) getting my books listed. I have to say I like the consonance between what I have listed, and yours. I get a lot of people who have just the cookbooks, or just the McPhee, or just the Gould, or just the O'Brian. It's always interesting to see a more than one-note-charlie congruence.

posted by Pecunium at 5:16 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2011

... i know what you mean by "being a bookseller for over twenty years...(so) really being good for nothing else"...
When my 20-yr bookstore crashed I just naturally got another bookstore job, although this doesn't keep me supplied with ARCs...

posted by Crypto-Willobie at 1:27 pm (EST) on May 8, 2011

Nicki,
I chanced upon your profile and see your a bookseller. My collection is getting too big and unwieldy. Plus, my bank account is drastically low. What is the best way to start selling them for best return? Abes? E-bay? Alibris?
Thanks,
Steven

posted by eugenegant at 11:08 am (EST) on May 6, 2011

tim the founder of this Library Thing says I can alphabetize my library by author by hitting author somewhere or in the ABCDE thingie. I can not find a way to do this. could you take a moment out and tell me precisely how I can list my books by author on this site, using language you would use to a child in order to get him to eat his liquid spinach. please.

posted by andyray at 9:32 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2011

Thanks for the thanks, both on my page and for the gracious note in the thread. You sounded believably pleased, which pleases me absurdly. I'm a lawyer now, but my heart is in helping people find books to read.

The Apuleius has been a favorite of mine since encountering it in a comic lit course in college, ages ago.

I've gotten two of three books now, and expect the third will arive today or tomorrow. Sorry we didn't get the books to you by your birthday (to judge from your comments below.)

posted by Capybara_99 at 2:33 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2011

Happy Birthday, Nicki...

posted by Jesse_wiedinmyer at 4:32 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2011

Thanks for accepting my friend request. You have such great taste in books and it is always such a shocking surprise to see LT readers who overlap with my eclectic taste and addiction to foreign titles. BTW I have a goddaughter in Wilmington. I think she works on OAk Island.

posted by authorknows at 8:01 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2011

Thanks for the friendly comment on the Santa Thing thread. I did indeed end up picking out the books you presumably will someday get (but I also had another giftee, and it was his books I was referring to with the fluctuating prices).
I'm entirely jealous of your library and because of that I imagine I'm entirely jealous of your life as well.

posted by Capybara_99 at 7:12 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2011

Thank you so much for my Secret Santa books - what good choices! I'm particularly pleased with the Margaret Kennedy. I recently read The Ladies of Lyndon and enjoyed it, and The Constant Nymph was next on my mental list to acquire and read. It's a long time since I read Shirley Hazzard - Transit of Venus - so The Bay of Noon will probably be a like reading a new author for me.

I see we have quite a lot of books in common - 233 including duplicate copies - and I thought I had seen your name in the Virago group but I see that, despite having many Viragos, you're not a member.

Thank you again, and I hope your Secret Santa book(s) were a pleasure too.

Kerry

posted by CDVicarage at 11:31 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2010

"From Egypt to Babylon" is not for those with no familiarity of the Bronze Age, but it does a nice job of weaving together the major players into the global relationships that were prevalent. I liked the fact that there was appropriate coverage of the Mittani, which usually are overlooked in these studies. Let me know what you think when you read it.

We have 150 books in common!

posted by Garp83 at 7:42 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2010

Did you read "From Egypt to Babylon"? I loved it ...

posted by Garp83 at 6:36 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2010

Hola, great review on the book of Manguel about Homer and his books, I’m Reading it right now and is true sometimes Alberto just wonder around other things but at least for me the book is amazing trip on the subject of the history, stories, influence of the Iliad and the odyssey. I think many people experienced the same thing with this book, you know the story either because you see a movie or read about it in other books, but not many have read the books, I bought a cheap copy some years ago thinking that in a weekend I could reading but I couldn’t pass by the 3rd book it was very difficult to read. I also have the War that killed Achilles but I won’t be reading in the near future, this past years I been reading a lot of non-fiction books so this 2011 would be the fiction challenge. Looking forward to your next reviews. saludos. Eduardo

posted by EduardoT at 10:50 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2010