Member: AbigailAdams26

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About meI am the newest member of the LibraryThing team, working on special projects and member support. I run the Early Reviewers program, manage our social media accounts, and write LibraryThing's newsletter, State of the Thing.

A sincere stumbler after truth, with no shortage of opinions, and a strong desire to do right, I believe in reasoned and respectful discourse. With more areas of interest than time to pursue them - not to mention a nature more given to enthusiasm than prone to discipline - I suspect that my list of books to-read will always outstrip my list of books already read.

About my libraryAfter twenty+ years working at various bookstores, my personal library is eclectic in the extreme, although my long-standing interest in children's literature means that juvenile titles predominate. As for my online library, which includes those books I have borrowed from libraries all over the country (Inter-Library Loan being a wondrous thing!), it ranges from obscure American children's novels from the early twentieth century, to the latest blockbuster picture-books.

GroupsBug Collectors, Children's Literature, Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing, Frequently Asked Questions, List of the Month, Member Giveaways, Name that Book, Newbery Challenge, Picture books, Reviews of Early Reviewers Books —show all groups, Tattered but still lovely, TinyCat

Favorite authorsJoan Aiken, Ruth M. Arthur, L. M. Boston, Joseph Bruchac, Georgette Heyer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Diana Wynne Jones, Margaret Mahy, Robin McKinley, L. M. Montgomery, Daniel Pinkwater, Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBooks of Wonder (Downtown), Chapters Bookstore, Dubray Books - Grafton Street, Eason's, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis, McNally Jackson - Seaport, MindFair, Strand Bookstore, Ulysses Rare Books

Favorite librariesNew York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Oberlin College Library, Oberlin Public Library, The Morgan Library & Museum, Trinity College Library Dublin, White Plains Public Library, Woodbridge Public Library - Henry Inman Branch Library

MembershipLitsy. User AbigailAdams26
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Real nameAbigail Adams Moller

LocationNew Jersey

Account typepublic

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Member sinceMar 30, 2013

Currently readingThe Redheads by Josephine Elder
The Thursday Kidnapping by Antonia Forest
The Encyclopaedia of Girls' School Stories: Volume One by Sue Sims
Mohawk Valley by Ronald Welch