Member: Mantra

CollectionsYour library (4,573), Abandoned (2), Currently reading (39), To read (2), Read but unowned (150), Favorites (5), All collections (4,576)

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About meWell, obviously, that's not my picture! But I just love it.
I'm 50-something and single. I'm a software developer until I win the lottery, recently moved from .NET to Java. I have a teen son who just got his license, so bear with me if I seem scattered! We both love baseball, as you can probably guess from my library.

About my libraryThe biggest section of my library is devoted to baseball. I have in the neighborhood of 1,000 books, roughly 800 non-fiction and 200 fiction. I also have a lot of private eye/detective fiction. Then just a little bit of everything.

Groups9/11 Truth, A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Arthurian Legends, Arthurian Tales, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Awful Lit., Banned Books, Baseball, BookCrossers, Comics —show all groups, Covers, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, DFW LibraryThingers, Discordia, Dystopian novels, Early Reviewers, Erotica, Everything Illustration and Comic Art!, Facebook Users, Fairy Tales Retold, Flashman and Fraser, Frequently Asked Questions, Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction, Humor, James Bond: Double-0 Heaven, Japanese Culture, LibraryThing in Plano, Mensans of LibraryThing, Name that Book, New Wave Science Fiction and Fantasy, PalmThing for LibraryThing, Private Eyes, Pulp Fiction, Recommend Site Improvements, Romance - from historical to contemporary, SABR Members, Science Fiction Fans, Secret Masters, SF, horror and Fantasy Romance, Spies & Spy Fiction, Taggers!, Tai Chi, Texans Who LibraryThing, Time Travel, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds, Uber Readers, Used Books, Vampire Fiction

Favorite authorsRobert Crais, Dean Koontz, Dennis Lehane (Shared favorites)

Homepagehttp://www.kypris.com

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Real nameDan Nichols

LocationFlower Mound TX

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceJul 18, 2006

Currently readingThe Politics of Glory, How the Baseball Hall of Fame Really Works by Bill James
The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Business Stupidity in the 21st Century by Scott Adams
Mutual Dreaming by Linda Lane Magallon
I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin
The Psychology of Baseball: Inside the Mental Game of the Major League Player by Mike Stadler
Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book That Changes Lives (Millman, Dan) by Dan Millman
Par Bowling: The Challenge by Thomas C. Kouros
The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies by Mark Booth
Reversal by Hugh Bowen
Elementary Hindi by Richard Delacy
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda by Swami Vivekananda
After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn
The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read by Tim C. Leedom
Acharya's Religion 101 for Seekers by Acharya S
What is Hinduism? by Editors of Hinduism Today
How to Become a Hindu by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
1Q84: 3 Volume Boxed Set (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami
Peanuts and Crackerjacks: A Baseball Novel by M. Z. Ribalow
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: The Definitive, Updated 2nd Edition by Betty Edwards
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
Hellbox (Nameless Detective Mysteries) by Bill Pronzini
Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day by Daniel G. Amen M.D.
Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury by Stephan Pastis
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
In One Person: A Novel by John Irving
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
bOObs: A Guide to Your Girls by Elisabeth Squires
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Mastering Online Genealogy (Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy) by W. Daniel Quillen
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Shaken, Not Stirred (The Secret Files of I__ F______, Code Designate 17F) by Aaron Cooley
Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence by Clifford A. Pickover
The Bulletproof Diet: Lose up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life by Dave Asprey
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