Member: melannen
CollectionsYour library (7,042), Fiction (1,689), Nonfiction (2,323), Comics and picture books (859), AY (249), not f or nf (222), ephemera (645), Sheet Music (224), Nature Guidebooks (273), Cookery (224), Mom's books (524), Stored (524), Not On Shelf (148), No longer owned (873), Wishlist (132), All collections (9,056)
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Tags_read (2,778), ~oldadmin:no where from (1,865), sf (1,736), ~oldadmin:moved (1,661), _not to read (1,351), _paperback (1,269), ~oldadmin:wrong cover (1,125), ~oldadmin:series (1,057), ~oldadmin:zzyzz (978), @parascience (821) — see all tags
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About meA simple thirty something doing her best to avoid Real Life. Books have always been my drug of choice.
ETA: Friending policy (alas for the days when this was one site that didn't need one!) I like friends, but I am a fairly introverted person, and I'm much more likely to reply to a friend request if I know why you want to be friends - if I've never met you (or don't know you by your lt name) it's probably not a bad idea to leave me a comment saying hi while you're at it. Feel free to add me to watch lists or interesting libraries whenever you like, though! That takes no effort on my part. :D
About my libraryThis house is full of books. I personally rarely buy one that costs more than $.50, but considering the number of flea markets, used book sales, and thrift stores I frequent, that doesn't actually limit the number. Books with the SF or YA tag are actually in my and my sister's combined collection; someday Mom will get sick of having it in her house and we will have to split it up. We'll probably need to hire a divorce lawyer. Books with the Uncles tag were duplicate copies given to us by our uncles, who have even more ridiculously large SF collections than we do, but don't waste nearly as much time online. Books with the 'parascience' tag are in my library of occult/folklore/paranormal/mystical/anomalist/mythology/pseudoscience/religion/etc volumes. The others should be self-explanatory.
c. 2017 I am in the middle of a major inventory/weeding project so am discovering all sorts of new capabilities on LT. Also I am letting people on the internet vote on what to read next off my unread fiction pile, which you can do every week under the fmk tag.
Skstarwars, currently working on outgrowing its free account, tracks my sister's and my ongoing attempt to own every Star Wars book ever published. (Ten years ago we tried to do that with Star Trek, but quit and passed the collection on to our mother.)
Groups1013, Arthurian Legends, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Bestsellers over the Years, Boats and Sailing, Book Arts, Book Care and Repair, Book Sales, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Books Compared —show all groups, Bookshelf of the Damned, Broke!, Bug Collectors, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Comics, Discarded, Favorite Bookstores, Hymnbooks, LC Classification Challenge, Librarians who LibraryThing, LibraryThing Challenges, Librarything Series, LibraryThing-ers Anonymous, Livejournalers, Lutheran Group, Maps and Atlases, Maryland Librarythingers, Music to read by, National Book Festival, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), Needlearts, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Science & Mystery Adventure Series for Children, Science Fiction Fans, Secret Masters, Skeptic's book club, SlashThing, Star Trek Books, The Diogenes Club, The Last Cavalier, Used Books, Vintage children's and young adult books, X-Files
Favorite authorsPauline Ashwell, Jane Austen, Richard Bach, Elizabeth Boyer, Katharine Mary Briggs, L. Sprague de Camp, Diane Carey, Lewis Carroll, Daniel Cohen, Diane Duane, Alan Dean Foster, Stephen Jay Gould, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thom Gunn, E. W. Hildick, Laura Lee Hope, Molly Ivins, Diana Wynne Jones, Astrid Lindgren, Patricia A. McKillip, Daniel Pinkwater, H. Beam Piper, Elizabeth Marie Pope, Stephen Potter, Terry Pratchett, Joel Rosenberg, Eric Frank Russell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Odell Shepard, L. Neil Smith, Caroline Stevermer, Rosemary Sutcliff, G. B. Trudeau, Elizabeth Willey, Patricia C. Wrede, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites | Visited
Favorite bookstoresTwilite Zone Comics
Favorite librariesAnne Arundel County Public Library - Odenton Regional Library, Anne Arundel County Public Library - Severn Community Library
Other favoritesNational Book Festival, Goodwill - Millersville, Ann Arrundell County Historical Society Book Sale, Capclave 2009, Baltimore Comic-Con 2008, Blue Ridge Hospice Purcellville Thrift Shop, Natural History Society of Maryland
Homepagehttp://melannen.dreamwidth.org.
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Member sinceOct 8, 2005
Currently readingHow to SKETCH Sea, Town, and Country by Len A. Doust
Wicked Words by Hugh Rawson
Units of physical quantities and their dimensions by L. A Sena
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fantasists on Fantasy: A collection of Critical Reflections by Eighteen Masters of the Art by Robert H. Boyer
Glass and man by Anne Huether
Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
New lands (The Garland library of science fiction) by Charles Fort
The History of the Kings of Britain (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Salt Book: Lobstering, Sea Moss Pudding, Stone Walls, Rum Running, Maple Syrup, Snowshoes, and Other Yankee Doings by Pamela Wood
Maps and their makers: an introduction to the history of cartography by G. R. Crone
The A.P.R.O Bulletin, 1966-1971 by Aerial Phenomena Research Organization Inc.
Sea Beach at Ebb Tide by Augusta Foote Arnold
Magical and Mystical Sites: Europe and the British Isles by Elizabeth Pepper
Coping with mild traumatic brain injury by Diane Roberts Stoler
Batman Chronicles, Vol. 3 by Bob Kane
Gender in cross-cultural perspective by Caroline Brettell
The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century : essays on Anglo-American society by David Ammerman
The Mind's eye : readings from Scientific American by Jeremy M. Wolfe
Walking to Fitness by Seth Bauer
The Chrysalids (New York Review Books Classics) by John Wyndham
Ranma 1/2, Vol. 8 by Rumiko Takahashi
Mysteries of the Hopewell: Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands (Ohio History and Culture) by William F. Romain
Nine Ways God Always Speaks: * Offer Only Available In Certain States by Mark Herringshaw
Edible plants and animals : unusual foods from aardvark to zamia by A. D. Livingston
Esoteric Orders and Their Work by Dion Fortune
Psychic detectives : the mysterious use of paranormal phenomena in solving true crimes by Jenny Randles
I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book by Iona Opie
Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology by Rosemary A. Joyce
Who's who in science fiction by Brian Ash
The power of who : you already know everyone you need to know by Bob Beaudine
More information than you require by John Hodgman
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