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About meI have a background in Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies. I don't work in those fields anymore, but they still color my world view. I run a baby boutique that sells cloth diapers, baby carriers, old fashioned wooden toys, and natural products for the whole family. I'm a birth doula and thinking about starting certification classes to teach childbirth education.

I read everything that crosses my path. I read classics, and children's lit, and popular novels, and textbooks, and crap (which I usually don't know is crap until I start, and then I just can't stop in case there is one redeeming moment). Most books that I really like, I read over and over and over. I hate it when people write in books... that's what book journals are for.

Favorite genres:
dark humor
light fantasy
children's lit
social sciences
series

About my libraryI used to try to hold onto every book that came my way since I was a kid, but that has changed. Now, I am trying to keep only books that really mean something to me, that I know I will reread, or that I want to have to share with kids. I've been sending lots and lots of books off to new homes and trying to find nice, hardback editions of the books I want to keep. I'm still failing miserably at diminishing the number of unread books I own, but I am getting much better at making realistic decisions about books I'm obviously NEVER going to get around to.

GroupsBoard for Extreme Thing Advances, Children's Fiction, Children's Literature, Cookbookers, Fairy Tales Retold, Fforde Ffans, Flash-Mob Cataloging, LibraryThing Singles Group, Penguin Classics, Serious Series Lovers

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Alan Bradley, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jasper Fforde, Neil Gaiman, Ernest Hemingway, Hugh Howey, John Irving, Gregory Maguire, Christopher Moore, Naomi Novik, Elizabeth Peters, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Catherynne M. Valente, Brian K. Vaughan, Evelyn Waugh, Bill Willingham, P. G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)