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About meI am lover of independent bookstores and interesting libraries, and a regular bibliophile.

Currently, I live in Ottawa, Canada and buy most of my books from a small independent bookstore called Perfect Books, and some French books from Librarie du Soleil.

About my libraryThe books catalogued here are only those that I own and do not include books borrowed from the library. I use LibraryThing to catalogue my personal library, not to track what I have read.

When it comes to reading, I enjoy just about anything: sci-fi, poli. sci., historical fiction, social studies, fantasy, technical reference, classic cookbooks, and so on. My big three are Tolkien, Orwell and Jacobs. I have read everything ever published by these authors.

I have blatantly stolen my rating guidelines from aulsmith, which are as follows:

* - No one should have to read this book.
** - This book has minor redeeming features such as being an author's early work, having some useful information, or being funny.
*** - I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but it's not worth reading again (or I enjoyed it when I was twelve, but it didn't stand up to my adult expectations).
**** - It's good. Given world enough and time, I would probably read it again.
***** - It changed my life or it changed my thinking or I loved it so much I'll definitely try to read it again.

GroupsBoard for Extreme Thing Advances, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Canadian Bookworms, ConferenceThing, Cookbookers, Librarians who LibraryThing, LibraryThing Coffeehouse, Tea!, THE ANYTHING CULINARY BOOK GROUP, Unglue.it Fans

Favorite authorsJane Jacobs, George Orwell, Ahmed Rashid, Craig Thompson, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresHaslam's Book Store, Librarie du Soleil, Octopus Books, Perfect Books

Favorite librariesBodleian Library, Oxford University - Radcliffe Camera, Library of Parliament - Centre Block, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Ottawa Public Library - Cumberland Branch, Ottawa Public Library - Main Library, Ottawa Public Library - Orléans Branch

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Real nameWarren

LocationOttawa, Ontario

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Member sinceAug 28, 2006

Currently readingThe Spanish Civil War: Revised Edition by Hugh Thomas