MemberSusieBookworm(she/her)
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- 18th Century British Literature, Archaeology, Arthurian Legends, Bloggers, Dear America, dystopia, Dystopian novels, Fairy Tales Retold, Feminist SF, Geeks who love the Classics, Historical Fiction, In Translation, Literary Snobs, North Carolina LT Group, Post-apocalyptic Literature, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Read YA Lit, Tattered but still lovely, Utopian Literature
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2007
- Real Name
- Susanna
- About My Library
- I have pretty eclectic tastes. Most of my library is children's/YA plus a lot of "classics" and other old(er) books. My current literary interests include pre-1950 sci-fi/fantasy novels, world fiction, and modern dystopias, utopias, and magical realism, as well as retellings, add-ons, etc. of classic stories and novels. And books for my fields of study and profession (folklife, Catholicism, communal societies, new religious movements, archaeology, etc.).
My ratings:
5 stars - great book, loved it, perfect
4 stars - pretty good book, decent read
3 stars - hated it (or children's books in a large series - i.e., Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, etc. - are often rated like this just because they're all basically the same) - About Me
Curator for a small heritage center of a religious community. Having recovered from completing a graduate degree in Folk Studies/Historic Preservation, I'm now back in grad school for Sustainable Food Systems. When I'm not working or studying, I'm dancing, gardening, or reading still more. My rate of acquiring books has not slowed to the same extent as my rate of actually reading said books, and alas, my TBR pile has become unmanageable at this point.
Currently I'm most interested in colonial/early America and religion, especially New Religious Movements and communal societies. Volunteering at a Shaker historic site and then being hired by a convent has only been enabling. :)
Book Count for 2009: 88
Book Count for 2010: 92
Book Count for 2011: 108
Book Count for 2012: 139
Book Count for 2013: 101
Book Count for 2014: 73
Book Count for 2015: 43
Book Count for 2016: 46
Book Count for 2017: 51
Book Count for 2018: 26
Book Count for 2019: 50
Book Count for 2020: 57
Book Count for 2021: 39Book Count for 2022: 25
Books read in 2023:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Sustainable Agroecosystem Management ed. Patrick J. Bohlen & Gar House
Under the Sky We Make by Kimberly Nicholas
Twelve by Twelve by William Powers
The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." Groucho MarxCreate your own visitor map!
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- Kentucky
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- http://susie-bookworm.blogspot.com
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- Favorite Authors
- Douglas Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Meg Cabot, Isobelle Carmody, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nancy Farmer, Henry Fielding, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karen Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Harper Lee, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, Jane Loudon, George MacDonald, Tamora Pierce, Philip Pullman, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut, H. G. Wells
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Bookstores: Coffee & A Good Book, Fireside Bookstore, Got Books, Literary BookPost
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