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About meI am back in Australia after three years and eight months teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in Japan. During my time in Japan I managed to accumulate a ridiculously large library all of which I boxed up and shipped home. Subsequently, I am now in deperate need to buy some bookcases.

I have a double degree from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Creative Industries and Business Communication but have been biten by the teaching bug while in Japan and am heading back to school to get my Diploma of Education.

Also, I am a nerdfighter.

About my libraryThis library is transitioning. Not long ago, it listed all the books that I owned and had read while living in Japan. Now, it also includes books that I own but haven't yet read. Physically, the library is currently residing in (or around) cardboard boxes as well as split between numerous bookcases and cubpoards at my parents' house.

My mission, should I choose to accept it is to restore some semblance of order to my library, issolating it from all the the other books belonging to other family memebers; remove the Japanese portion from their cardboard boxes and; enter the Australian couterparts in LT.

I can't garantuee I'm going to accept the above mission, nor do I anticipate it being completed in a very timely fashion.

Straying away form the physical library and focusing more on content...

I became a comic book nerd while living in Japan, thanks in large part to Joss Whedon's Fray. I am also a fan of young adult fiction (but don't like to draw attention to that fact given I am pushing 30) and apparently, after having read some Tanya Huff, I also like fantasy novels. Albeit my fantasy genre experience has thus far been limited to novels featuring rather attractive vampires, and/or highly amusing, internal monologuing, pop culture referencing, gay Canadian television production assistants.

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YERRRRR ANDREA!!!!!!

i have read the first like 4 chapters of the boyfriend list and it's really funny.....looking forward to finsihing it!!!!! my plan is to read at least 5 books in the holidays :P

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posted by emdog at 5:16 am (EST) on Jun 8, 2009

Hi Anne D.
I think that you would enjoy other books by George A.Birmingham just as much as those you have read.He was a very prolific writer.I have read a number of his books other than those listed ,some of which may be around somewhere, but not yet catalogued.Incidentally I remember reading an interview with Graham Greene in which he mentioned Birmingham as one of his favourite authors.
I have two copies of 'The Bad Times'and would be happy to send one on to you.

posted by langston at 1:14 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2009

I haven't been to Northern Japan yet. I have visited Yokohama and lived a little bit in Okinawa.

posted by selkie_girl at 8:45 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2009

Joss Whedon was the main reason I picked up the first one. I'm a die hard Firefly fan and I've been hooked on his work ever since. Plus, Runaways has a great cast and enough twists in it to keep readers interested and on their toes.

posted by selkie_girl at 2:57 pm (EST) on Mar 18, 2009

Thanks. It's called Girl in a Green Dress by a Polish painter named Tamara de Lempicka.

They say genuises pick green, although, I'm pretty sure I just heard that on a movie once. :)

posted by frogbelly at 12:31 am (EST) on Dec 15, 2008

Hello! See you got Paper Towns and enjoyed it. I like your new picture too. Go nerdfighters.

posted by kelleykl at 6:05 pm (EST) on Oct 26, 2008

Thanks for your comments on my review of the Tomorrow Series, they were wonderful reads, and as I said in my review easily the best "series" I read this year, as for your friend being 40 and enjoying them, nothing wrong with that, I'm firmly of the belief the best YA stuff is wasted on the target market anyway! ;o)

posted by bart154ce at 2:27 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2008

Anne –

Thanks for letting me know you liked THINKING STRAIGHT! I love getting reader comments.

I can’t say that I had either adults or teens specifically in mind when I wrote it, to try and answer your question. I read about a teen whose parents were putting him into an “ex-gay” center, the director of which was quoted something along the lines of what I have Dr. Strickland in the book say: that he’d rather lose a teen to suicide than homosexuality. I sat down and started to write.

I’m hoping that people of all ages will read it, because the message is for everyone. But in particular, I hope gay teens read it and begin to get that they are okay, even with God (if that’s part of their philosophy). Gay teen suicides lead the way in our society, in terms of percentages, and that’s a tragedy I’d love to help abate. But if adults don’t read it too, the kids will still be on their own.

Kensington marketed it to the adult gay reader, but I get almost as much e-mail from teens.

This is a great question for the October discussion; I hope you log in and ask!

Thanks again –
-Robin

posted by RobinReardon at 3:15 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2008

Same thing happened with my copy of Breaking Dawn. I was not happy as I could have had it in hand August 2nd. Oh well. I'm half way through it now! Hope you're reading something good in the meantime!

posted by kelleykl at 11:49 pm (EST) on Aug 10, 2008

That's so funny. I got it by posting almost the exact same comment on another person's LT page. She sent it to me after getting it at a library convention. I have to finish _Breaking Dawn_ before I can even start it, plus I have an Early Reviewer book to review. I will let you know when I finish. If I you haven't gotten it yet, I will send it your way! (It may be awhile... School starts this coming week too.) DFTBA!

posted by kelleykl at 11:10 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. I wanted to tell you that you MUST read John Green's An Abundance of Katherines. It was the best YA novel I read last year. Much funnier than Alask. Also, the best novel that I read this summer was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, an Australian. You should pick it up (or order or whatever you do in Japan. It's powerful.
posted by kelleykl at 7:35 pm (EST) on Jul 24, 2008

I will look into the Marsden books. I haven't read anything by him.

Where are you in Japan? I was there in 2001 (just after the 9/11 attacks in New York city) and met some Aussie's teaching English on my trip. Spent most of my time in Tokyo, but also visited Mishima. I was there with the Fulbright Teachers program. All the Aussies were all very gracious, gave us great tips on where to eat, and translated what they could for us!!

I sent you a friend request!
posted by kelleykl at 7:30 pm (EST) on Jul 24, 2008

Go nerdfighters!
posted by kelleykl at 6:04 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2008

Hey -- thanks for adding me to your list of authors, and for putting me into your Intersting Libraries list!

I see your library includes THINKING STRAIGHT, my second novel. I'll be hosting a discussion of this book in the Author Chat group, starting on October 6. Hope to see you there!
posted by RobinReardon at 5:15 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2008