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CollectionsYour library (757), eBooks (439), Wishlist (62), Currently reading (4), To read (93), Read but unowned (230), Unread (32), Childrens (74), Rich's (37), All collections (1,182)

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Tagsfiction (677), nonfiction (272), science fiction (203), mystery (188), fantasy (118), romance (80), reference (73), @to-borrow (58), paranormal (55), southern (51) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jennifer Crusie, Charlaine Harris, Laurie R. King, Sharon Lee, Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Sheri S. Tepper, David Weber (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Newport News, Book Revue, Borders - Newport News, Paperbacks Ink, Strand Bookstore

Favorite librariesHampton Public Library - Main Library, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library - Woodlawn Heights Branch, Newport News Public Library System - Grissom Library, Newport News Public Library System - Main Street Library, Poquoson Public Library

About meLibrarians think I'm a computer geek.

Techies think I'm a bookworm.

And my last roommate called me a librarian with a tattoo, and I wasn't even a librarian then.

I'm a librarian at the New York Public Library, working in the Bronx (but a lovely neighborhood, really. It's like Little Dublin), and live in Westchester county outside NYC, with my husband and two cats, Hamlet and Miranda (no, sadly, not after Shakespeare. After the Algonquin Cat, one of my childhood favorites). My Hamlet is grey and white and missing one eye, like the cat on the cover (well, OK, the one on the book cover is winking, but the effect is the same).

About my libraryMy library consists primarily of books I've not only read, but that I enjoy reading over and over again. Well, in terms of fiction - non-fiction I like to have around as reference, and tends heavily toward language (thesauruses, style guides). As a librarian, I weed; if I no longer value a book, it goes (usually to a book-swapping site so I can obtain a new one). And I like to have my favorites in hardcover - right now I have an insane number of books wishlisted on two book-swapping sites, almost all of them books I already own in paperback, but want in hardback. I've also added books I don't own to my catalog as well (tagged as @read-not-owned). Mostly books borrowed from the library - only stuff I feel is memorable in some way, though.

My fiction tastes are varied: I read almost every genre, though I certainly lean toward fantasy and science fiction. I think I enjoy the speculative fiction genres because I appreciate the creativity that world-building entails. As such, I prefer the SF that takes place in worlds substantially different than our own, and especially if the cultures are different - that, I think, is even more difficult to create than a different physical world, and even more fascinating - one of my favorites, Sheri Tepper, is particularly good at both aspects of world-building.

I do have a little bit of a weakness for nice leatherbound classics just to have on display in my living room - they account for the @will-never-read tag.

And finally, for non-fiction, my interests are:
Bodyart (cultural aspects)
(Books about) books
Consumerism
Design
Education & culture
English language usage (humorous)
Etymology
Evolutionary psychology (my, what a run of Es!)
Fashion advice
Religion and sociology
Signs and symbols
Technology and sociology
Usability

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Real nameDeb Morrissey

LocationNewport News, VA

Emaildebmorrisseygmail.com

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Member sinceJul 3, 2006

Currently readingBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
The waters rising by Sheri S. Tepper
Packing for Mars : the curious science of life in the void by Mary Roach