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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, Joss Whedon (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Yonkers, Borders - Scarsdale, Strand Bookstore, Womrath Bookshop

Favorite librariesBronxville Public Library, New Rochelle Public Library, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library - Woodlawn Heights Branch

About me Librarians 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

I've also added my DVD library (and my husband's) to my catalog, because no DVD-specific site out there had nearly the features of LT. Most wanted you to specify exactly which version you had, which I really could not have cared less about. IMDb at least had the "work" concept, but didn't handle TV shows very well, since you couldn't specify seasons. LT actually handles videos pretty well, if you just import them from one of the public library sources, and mark them as such so they don't get combined with books (I usually put [videorecording] in the title, as a good librarian automatically would).

And if anyone is trying to figure out how I got the images to the right of the text: you can insert a style into the IMG tag, by putting style="float: right;" between IMG and SRC. In other words, your full tag will be:

<img style="float: right;" src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg">

It makes the text wrap around the picture. Obviously, you can do left, too.

By all means, if you see an error in my catalog data, please feel free to leave a comment and tell me so. I want good data.

Homepagehttp://timepiece.nfshost.com/

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Real nameDeb Morrissey

LocationBronxville, NY

Emaildebmorrisseygmail.com

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Member sinceJul 3, 2006