Member: drmarymccormack
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About meMy love of reading has a lot to do with my Irish heritage, not because I was introduced to great Irish literature or anything of the kind. When I was a kid, my parents made me take Irish dancing class on Saturday mornings. The last thing in the universe a kid wants to do on the weekend is wake up early and be forced to listen and dance to that awful music. I think my parents left Ireland because the music is so bad! The teacher had a stack of comic books ("boy's" stuff from her sons) that I read in a corner trying to avoid participating. Then when I was nine, my father brought us to Ireland where I experienced absolute culture shock. Television was horrible(it only had RTE and that only came on two or three hours a day with pitiful programs) and we were on a farm. Thank God my cousins had a waist high stack of old Bunty comic books!! Now when I read those old Bunty books I can't believe how simple they were but they were my salvation and I wanted to be Bunty! Two years later, our sixth grade teacher made us read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. That was the end of me, I have been an addict ever since.
About my libraryI like everything as long as it's good, but my favorite thing in the world is biography. I'm a sucker for history too, I can't get enough! I also want recommendations, it's the best way to find those great books that I've missed.
Groups75 Books Challenge for 2011, American Civil War, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Birds, Birding & Books, Cats, books, life is good., Chicagoans, Christianity, Club Read 2011, Folio Society devotees, Girlybooks —show all groups, Happy Heathens, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, Le Salon des Amateurs de la Langue, Legacy Libraries, Let's Talk Religion, Literary Snobs, Made into a Movie, Magazines!!!!! New Yorker, Science, Atlantic, Mad......, Monthly Author Reads, New York Review Books, Non-Fiction Readers, NPR Listeners, Other People's Libraries, Persephone Readers, ravelry, Second World War History, Virago Modern Classics, What Are You Reading Now?
Favorite authorsWilliam Manchester, Nancy Mitford, Barbara W. Tuchman, Mark Twain, William Butler Yeats (Shared favorites)
MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway
Real nameMary Ellen McCormack
LocationChicago
Account typepublic, lifetime
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Member sinceDec 14, 2010
