Random books from trebro's library

Dinosaur vs. Robot #2 by Ainsley Yeager

Castle Waiting by Linda Medley

Two Treatises of Government by John Locke

A nation on trial: America and the War of 1812 by Patrick Cecil Telfer White

Swell Part One: Openfaced Sandwich by Juliacks

Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry During the Civil War by Chester G. Hearn

InuYasha, Vol. 6 by Rumiko Takahashi

Members with trebro's books

Member connections

Friends: davenportavenger, ginskye, jessicajames

Interesting libraries: civilwarlibrarian, CWPT, davenportavenger, Keleyat, paxtonville, Railsplitter, reapergirl, simside, sk4p, valancy

LibraryThing authors: Eric Peterson (eptcb126), Bryan Lee O'Malley (radiomaru), G. Willow Wilson (thisiswill)

RSS feeds

Recently-added books

trebro's reviews

Reviews of trebro's books, not including trebro's

Member: trebro

CollectionsYour library (2,261)

Reviews62 reviews

Tagscivil war (247), trade paperbacks (217), zines (199), hardcover (174), marvel (146), anthologies (105), manga (100), spx 2009 (89), cookbooks (78), graphic novels (71) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

GroupsAmerican Civil War, Comics, Cookbookers, Manga!, Mark Twain, Unread Support Group, Writer-readers

About meYeehaw! 2,000 books!! Book #2000 is "Veeps" by Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger.

This is the collected library of Rob and Erica, two people with entirely too many books and probably just about the the right number of cats. We live in Pittsburgh and are working on a rather large collection of comics, both of the cape and cowl and indie kind.

We are working on rebuilding Erica's zine library as well.

Book #1,000 of the collection: The Volume Library, by Educators Association, 1931, from the few remaining books that belonged to Rob's grandfather. Very excited that our 1K book was a meaningful one!

We're constantly working on making our collection more specific to our needs, weeding out things that aren't the type of books (or comics) we like to read. So the total books are apt to fluctuate over time.

Favorites:

Author: Mark Twain, Philip K. Dick

Line from an Introduction: "1984 may not arrive on time, but there's always 1985."--Walter Cronkite, from his intro to 1984

Homepagehttp://panelpatter.blogspot.com/

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

Real nameRob and Erica

LocationPittsburgh, PA

Favorite authorsNone

Account typepublic, lifetime

Connection NewsConnection News

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebro (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/trebro (library)

Common KnowledgeSeries (387), Awards (200), Characters (2666), Places (520)

Member sinceNov 10, 2006

Most recent activity

trebro added:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

trebro added:
DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture by Amy Spencer

trebro added:
The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac

trebro added:
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An introduction by J.D. Salinger

trebro added:
The Magic Christian (Terry Southern) by Terry Southern

trebro added:
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Thanks for the information; I had no idea that Dan Savage worked on a comic with Fantagraphics. :-) Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 9:15 am (EST) on Dec 21, 2008

Hello, I noticed that you have a book called Savage Love #2 in your library by Dan Savage. Is this a second Savage Love book? If so, I haven't heard of it yet and will have to look out for it. Thanks, and Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 12:26 pm (EST) on Dec 18, 2008

Hello, you asked about recommendations for overlooked series. It kind of depends on what you like to read, but there are plenty of series that I think more people probably need to read. I'll break it up by genre.

Horror:
- "Panorama of Hell" (Hideshi Hino, 1 vol)
- "Red Snake" (Hideshi Hino, 1 vol)
- "Mermaid Saga" (Rumiko Takahashi, 4 vol)
- "Bride of Deimos" (Ashibe/Ikeda, 7 vol in English) - a girlier horror series
- "Dragon Head" (Minetaro Mochizuki, 10 vol) - may not actually be that overlooked, still good

Action:
- "Law of Ueki" (Tsubasa Fukuchi, 16 vol)
- "From Eroica With Love" (Yasuko Aoike, 34+ vol) - one of my absolute favorites, on the girlier side of action, extremely overlooked, first volume is terrible though, especially the mostly unrelated first chapter.

Romance (aimed at boys):
"Flowers and Bees" (Moyoko Anno, 7 vol)

Romance (aimed at girls):
- "DVD" (Korean, Kye Yong Chon, 6 vol) - isn't really a romance, kind of weird
- "Guru Guru Pon-chan" (Satomi Ikezawa, 9 vol) - more for little girls, but has some of the best characters I've ever read... I'm ashamed to like it, but it's really really good
- Tomoko Taniguchi one-shots, especially "Call Me Princess," "Aquarium," and the 2-volume "Just a Girl."

Drama (for girls):
- "Swan" (Kyoko Ariyoshi, 21 vol) - girly. seriously girly, but also quite good and has fantastic page composition

Not great, but not getting the attention they deserve:
- Knights of the Zodiac (Masami Kuromada, 28 vol) - action. manly.
- +Anima (Natsumi Mukai, 10 vol) - adventure/fantasy

Also, "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" is a really popular series in Japan, and I think a lot of people have heard of it, but I don't think anyone's reading it in English (it got moved to a quarterly schedule, which I assume means it sold poorly). It's literally one of the most insane action series I've ever read, and it's baffling that it's not finding more of an audience among English comic fans, because it's got all the right ingredients.

posted by simside at 2:04 am (EST) on May 31, 2007

Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /