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CollectionsLot Sale 2013 (477), Your library (1,449), Gave Away (164), All collections (2,085)

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Tagslotsale2013 (475), psychology (164), given away (162), languages (159), memoir (146), children's books (111), travel (91), history (89), novel (82), missions (66) — see all tags

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About meIn sixth grade I spent most of my allowance on books from the Scholastic Book Club. It was "Buy 4, Get 1 Free!" so I bought 40 books at about 50 cents a piece and got 10 free that year! I used to lug my current favorites to school with me in a corrugated box with handles that had held some Girl Scout cookies I'd sold. As I'm cataloging, I'm finding some of these with Dewey numbers stuck on the spines written in green Bic pen on adhesive tape.

The one and only time I went dumpster diving was after one of the neighborhood kids found a bunch of books in the big blue bin behind the carpet warehouse across the street. I got a really cool Hagaddah that way.

Then when I was living in the sticks during high school I discovered Dover books. I can still remember the thrill of getting a couple of dozen books from Dover delivered all at once to our rural route mailbox.

In 2006 I finished my masters degree in counseling and while I have an undergraduate degree in psychology, my previous occupations have been in bookselling and law library technical services on K Street. I work as a clinician for community corrections.

About my libraryI only catalogue books that I can see on the shelves and not e-books or recorded books (with the exception of language learning materials). I have also thrown some maps into the mix.

When it comes to fiction, I'm not too big on novels; I'm more likely to venture into poetry or short stories and kid's books.

Many of these volumes spent six years cooped up in two different storage units and most survived surprisingly well, I'm happy to report. A lot of the Christian books, travel books, the coolest maps, and many language books came from my stints in specialty bookselling, though I'd probably have nearly as many anyway.

I'm a language hobbyist, having only studied German formally, many moons ago. Now I am hoping to conquer Dutch, actually a much more difficult language to pronounce than Mandarin Chinese, if you ask me.

Though I am a committed Christian (bumbling & growing), I like to read about and understand other expressions of spiritual practice, particularly personal experiences with Zen.

If I could do it all over I'd probably study sociology. I like to understand American subcultures, and I try to do more than read about social justice.

I picked up most of the DID/MPD (and SRA) books when I was helping a friend with some related issues, although I retain an active interest in the treatment of trauma, child abuse and neglect, and dissociative disorders.

I'm also very interested in how people get involved in cults or closed organizations (or churches for that matter) which pivot around guru excess or controlling leadership. A related topic of interest is how people recognize and manage boundary issues, including power dynamics and transference.

Peace.

GroupsAll Books Africa, Central Virginians, Genealogy@LT, Historic Peace Churches, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Maps and Atlases, Memoirs and autobiographies, PalmThing for LibraryThing, Photography, Progressive Criminal Justiceshow all groups

Favorite authorsRobert Farrar Capon, Sean Condon, Hermann Hesse, bell hooks, Jon Krakauer, Brian D. McLaren, Erwin Raphael McManus, A. A. Milne, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Chaim Potok, Mark Salzman, Upton Sinclair, Marsha Sinetar (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresAthenaeum Boekhandel, Book People, Borders - Richmond, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, Logos Bookstore - Richmond

Favorite librariesChesterfield County Library - Central Branch, Henrico County Public Library - Dumbarton Area Library, Henrico County Public Library - Tuckahoe Area Branch, Richard Bland College Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences (VCU)

Other favoritesCafe Gutenberg, Deventer Boekenmarkt, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Museum, Shop, and Library)

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Real nameSandi

LocationRichmond, Virginia

Emailswigginscopper.net

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/wahig (profile)
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Member sinceMar 17, 2006

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Hey - love your story of the dumpster and of the buy four get one free deal! As Bakari says, nice of you to pop by my library too (sadly I'm all but too busy to read at the moment) - I'm not sure it's that interesting, just pretentious I suspect!
Since you have my book of translations, Cleaned The Crocodile's Teeth, and you like memoir, I thought you might like to know that I've published my tenth book, a memoir, called Black Glasses Like Clark Kent. It's about my uncle who committed suicide after leaving tapes about his service as an MP in an American stockade in postwar Japan. Excerpts are posted on the National Book Critic Circle's blog, Critical Mass.

MacArthur's rule--talk about controlling leadership!
Leuke foto's uit Deventer, een stad waar ik vroeger veel gekomen ben.
Hoe die boekhandelaar in Virginia aan dat Nederlandse boek gekomen is, zal wel altijd een raadsel blijven. Een Nederlandse immigrant?
Groeten,
Jan Willem
Hi wahig,
Wij hebben een boek in het Nederlands gemeenschappelijk. Daarom, en omdat je Nederlands leert zoals ik zie, mijn hartelijke groet uit het oude Europa.
Happy reading!
Thanks for your greetings. I had been busy. hence the delay in replying. Nice to know we have common interests in Maths & Physics. BTW What were you searching under 'Marathi'. I have a huge personal collection. What I have updated so far is just a fraction of it. So you may please visit my collection after a month or two.
I too was a Scholastic Book Club frequent buyer. :) I've been wondering what happened to all of them--maybe they're hiding in my attic...
I was pleased to see you mention Scholastic Book Club. How I would look over the selection of books from the four page newletter and try to pick out the perfect book on my meager allowance many, many moons ago. I manage to get quite a collection going and am grateful for the teacher who had to hassle with collecting the money and so forth. How I wish I had saved those paperbacks if only to see what had caught my fantasy back then.
Keep up the collecting.
No, nobody has answered my questions about buying used books, nor has anyone answered my question about scanning. Thanks for checking.

Peace,
Tim
Thank you for checking out my library. Wow, we have close to 50 books in common.
thanks for stopping by
peace to you also :0)
We have many of the same books on DID and I looked through your catalog and found some I don't have. I'm going to start looking for them. Thanks
I haven't tried co-housing yet, but my husband and I hope to at some point. We're moving to Portland, OR at the end of this month and don't have a place to live yet, so we may end up doing that! Thank you for commenting!
Thanks for the compliment on the Mennonite collection. It's small still, but growing--I pick up relevant pieces whenever I can find them. What's your connection to that community? Fascinating collection by the way. Quite diverse!
Hi, I'm replying to your comment about the Cohousing book. I did like it and went to a live presentation by the authors a few years ago. Although I've decided that style of living is probably not to my taste right now, I think the concept is excellent and much needed in today's times.
Ruckshau und Fortschritt may be one of the books that has kicked around in my collection the longest--I think I picked it up, cheap somewhere, or maybe free--at some point in grade school when I was interested in learning German...
Hi, thanks for stopping by and checking out my collection. Yours is interesting likewise. You sound like–and your collection seems to hint–that you're a progressive Christian? Keep in touch.
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