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About My Library

My books are scattered between two offices and various rooms in my home, and they are not in any particular order. I know where to find each of them though. I am however running out of shelf space. I actually got rid of some books a while back, but now I'm trying to figure out if I could get bigger cases to hold more books in our already existing space...

I've bought these books over the years, new and used, at book sales, at book stores big and small, here and abroad, at garage sales, online. Some were gifts, most are books I bought myself. I'm slowly but surely inputting all my books into LibraryThing, plus all my maps, plus I just found out you can put in CDs as well. I've finished inputting all the books in the house (well, except for cookbooks and lots of kids books), but still have tons of books at work to do one of these days...

Over the past ten years I've sporadically kept track of what I was reading, for those books I kept track of, I've included when I read them: {read in 1998-99} (referring to Sep 1998 - Aug 1999); or for the past year or so, {read in 2006}. But except for those books going forward, these tags are not complete.

I own almost all of the items I've listed here; for my own benefit I am also including some books that I have read but do not own (tagged {library}). Books tagged {friend} were written by friends of mine. (Note: I use {} to tag so these tags show up at the end of my tag list and tag cloud, "{" coming after lower-case z in the ascii coding.)

About Me

I love reading, though I suppose that's a prerequisite for this site. Despite efforts to clear the floor next to my bed by putting shelves there, the books continue to pile up on the floor. All of my bookshelves are full. I especially love reading novels. My interest in nonfiction waxes and wanes.

Location

Finger Lakes, NY

Memberships

TinyCat

Currently Reading

Fear : the history of a political idea by Corey Robin

A perfect mess : the hidden benefits of disorder : How crammed closets, cluttered offices, and on-the-fly planning make by Eric Abrahamson

The democracy makers : human rights & international order by Nicolas Guilhot

The Reluctant Spy by John Goodwin

The Nonconformists : Culture, politics, and nationalism in a Serbian intellectual circle, 1944-1991 by Nick Miller

Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake

Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America by Kristina Bross

Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy by Gabriel Kuhn

Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity, and Religion in Israel, 1925-2005 by Nadav G. Shelef

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Vintage) by Brian Greene

Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia by Patrick Hyder Patterson

Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith

Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal by Gerard Toal

Sacred Aid: Faith and Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett

Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community by Max Bergholz

Sin and Fear: The Emergence of the Western Guilt Culture, 13Th-18th Centuries by Jean Delumeau

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

Show time : the logic and power of violent display by Lee Ann Fujii

The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (New Cold War History) by Chris Miller

Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare by Seth G. Jones

The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth by Thomas M. Bohn

Favorite Authors

Rilla Askew, Peter Carey, David Mitchell

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Buffalo Street Books, Strand Bookstore, The Bookery

Libraries: Cornell University - Olin Library, New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Member Connections

Friends

skatulaBOOKS2

Interesting Library

Kunikov, PhoenixTerran