Member: DWWilkin

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About meSpent a lot of this lifetime being educated.
A top notch High School, taking AP courses. UCSC, and UCLA
a certificate in my professional field at CSUDH, then an MBA also.

Used my diplomas to go from working in the field of law, which I didn't like, to computers, then computer accounting, which led to manufacturing, in the world of woodworking. Which led to more progressive jobs on the manufacturing track, to finally owning a company.

About my libraryScience Fiction was probably not my first genre that I read. It was probably Dr. Suess and Charlie Brown. But Science Fiction and Fantasy is the cornerstone of my library. From that has grown an interest in historical novels and mysteries. Fiction, and then a large section of NonFiction works to make a collection a real library.

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Groups18th-19th Century Britain, Almack's, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Caid, English History - Tudor through Edwardian, FantasyFans, Group Reads - Sci-Fi, Hall of Servants, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries —show all groups, Hobnob with Authors, Military Fiction, Richard III, Science Fiction Fans, Shot and Sail, Steampunk, The Green Dragon, The Last Cavalier, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds, Turtledove Troop, Victoriana

Favorite authorsRobert Adams, Isaac Asimov, Robert Asprin, Jane Austen, Emma Bull, Broos Campbell, Tom Clancy, Charles Dickens, David Drake, David Eddings, Raymond E. Feist, C. S. Forester, Robert A. Heinlein, Georgette Heyer, Robert Jordan, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Mindy L. Klasky, Sharon Lee, David Liss, Steve Miller, Sharon Kay Penman, H. Beam Piper, Christine Pope, Dudley Pope, Jerry Pournelle, Brandon Sanderson, Melinda Sherbring, Michael A. Stackpole, J. R. R. Tolkien, Harry Turtledove, David Weber, David Wilkin, D. W. Wilkin, Janny Wurts (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBorders - Brea, Borders - La Habra

Favorite librariesOrange County Public Library - La Habra Library

Homepagehttp://thethingsthatcatchmyeye.wordpress.com/

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Member sinceOct 22, 2008

Currently readingThe War of Wars: The Great European Conflict 1793 - 1815 by Robert Harvey
The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War by David Gates
Wellington's Military Machine by Philip J. Haythornethwaite
Wellington's Rifles: Six Years to Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
TALES FROM THE RIFLE BRIGADE: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade Random Shots From a Rifleman by Captain Kincaid
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
Wellington's Army 1809-1814 by Charles Oman
French Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792-1815 (Elite) by Paddy Griffith
British Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792-1815 (Elite) by Philip Haythornthwaite
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Corunna 1809: Sir John Moore's Fighting Retreat (Praeger Illustrated Military History) by Philip Haythornthwaite
Last Argument of Kings (First Law: Book Three) by Joe Abercrombie
Time Commanders: Great Battles of the Ancient World by Peter Harrison
The Painter X Wow! Book by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Copyediting & Proofreading For Dummies (For Dummies (Language & Literature)) by Suzanne Gilad
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped by Paul Strathern
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