Member: tapestry100
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About meWell, I think it's a given that like everybody on here, I like books. And reading. And just about anything that involves a combination of either of those. Yay books! And Doctor Who. I'm wild about Doctor Who. Oh, what I wouldn't give to hear the sound of the TARDIS in real life!
I live in Lansing MI with my dog, Sky, and my two kitties, Pride and Sophie. Sky is a new addition to our little household, and I'm not 100% certain the cats have forgiven me for bringing her home. They want nothing to do with her; she wants nothing more than to play with them... it makes for a slightly stressful living situation sometimes, but we make do.
I'm a graphic designer and I work for a small, independently owned telephone book publishing company as product manager and will be celebrating my 16th anniversary with the company in 2013! I think that's a fairly healthy achievement.
About my libraryMy library grows at a far more accelerated rate than it is read. It seems that I either can't stop myself from going into the local bookstores on a regular basis, or can't stop myself from buying at least one volume while I'm there. Both scenarios seem to present a problem, as I live up the road from a Schuler Books, and my friends and I still frequent the local Barnes & Noble so much that the employees know us all by name (it's like Cheers!).
As far as my library, it's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I usually find either a subject or an author that catches my interest, and start focusing on buying books in that particular genre or by that particular author. Nothing like a little self-diagnosed OCD to make life fun!
As mentioned, I buy more books than I can read at any given point, and for awhile tried to keep a stack of books by the bed of what I wanted to read next, but when that stack grew into three, I decided that might not be the best idea. Sometimes I think I need to reduce my library or at least buy less, but as my good friend Sarah says, "One can never have too many books."
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Favorite authorsPiers Anthony, Meg Waite Clayton, James Dashner, John DeChancie, Patrick Dennis, J. F. Englert, Fannie Flagg, Penelope Przekop, Anne Rice, Brandon Sanderson, May Sarton, Sharon Shinn, Janny Wurts (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites | Visited
Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Lansing Mall, Nicola's Books, Schuler Books & Music, Schuler Books & Music - Eastwood, Schuler Books & Music - Okemos, The Green Hand Bookshop
Favorite librariesDelta Township District Library
Homepagehttp://www.frommybookshelf.com/
MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers
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Real nameDavid
LocationLansing, MI
Account typepublic
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Member sinceSep 8, 2006
Currently readingBlood Rubies by Michael McDowell
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A. F. Steadman
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