Member sleepyjim

Real Name

Jim Burk

About My Library

My favorite reading is crime and mystery. I live in such a small apartment that most of my books are in bags and boxes. Since I Joined LibraryThing, I have discovered some old friends.

About Me

Well, before I go much further I should introduce myself. I am Seventy-one, born 9-11-1936. Being a high school drop-out my writing skills should be excused. My First memory of reading I was five years old, living in a hotel in San Diego. My First reading material was Little Golden Books and comic books. I don't know that I will ever stop.

Location

San Diego, Ca.

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

The Americans by Robert Frank

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Atmosphere Peterson Field Guide by Vincent J. Schaefer

Essays and English Traits Harvard Classics/Collectors Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well by McIntosh

Feiffer on civil rights by Jules Feiffer

Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg

Secret Mystic Rites - The Art of Todd Schorr by Todd Schorr

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane

Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole) by Robert Crais

The Serpents Trail by Sue Henry

Favorite Authors

Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Earl Derr Biggers, Lawrence Block, Edna Buchanan, John Buchan, Charles Bukowski, James Lee Burke, Rex Burns, Erskine Caldwell, Italo Calvino, John Dickson Carr, Janet Evanovich, George P. Pelecanos, Robert Anton Wilson

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Bluestocking Books, Footnote Books, KB Books - City College, On Comic Ground, Wahrenbrock’s Book House

Member Connections

Friends

edlynskey

Interesting Library

LouBriccant