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Favorite authorsMihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Sigmund Freud, Douglas R. Hofstadter, John Irving, Carl Jung, Milan Kundera, Joseph LeDoux, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert M. Pirsig, Robert C. Solomon (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresA Novel Idea, Inc., Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Cary, McKay Used Books and CDs

Favorite librariesUNC University Libraries, Wake County Public Libraries - Cary Public Library

About meI'm interested in a little of everything. I began full-time studies in Fall 2008 for a Masters in Library Science. I'm currently a cataloging intern at an Environmental Protection Agency library. My undergraduate degree was in chemistry, and that's how I've made most of my lifetime earnings, but most of my reading for pleasure has been in psychology and philosophy. In 2008 I had surgery for alternating strabismus; nothing will underscore the importance of perspective/point of view like eye surgery...let me tell you! I value both science and art, thinking and feeling, and my library reflects that. I believe in the maxim that one should become what one is, and that books are just one way to nourish that growth of self-potential.

About my libraryIt's mostly nonfiction, with significant collections in philosophy and psychology. You'll find tidbits of everything from African literature to Instrumental Analysis represented here, however. My book habit has been limited by budget, so the collection is significant but not huge. Books in my possession are listed, not books read or books wanted, with the very few exceptions in the read but not owned collection. I am slowly adding reviews, although for a lot of books it's been so long since they were read that I don't feel it fair to write one.

A side note: I will use the friend feature specifically to keep up with folks I know outside of LT. I have no issue with someone listing my library as interesting; I don't feel stalked. :) I don't think I'll have time to keep up with other "interesting libraries," though, so I probably won't form a list of those. There have been libraries I've found interesting here and visited more than once; I'm just not going to make a list and then feel bad for not keeping up. This is no way reflects negatively on anyone.

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Member sinceNov 23, 2005

Currently readingContextual design : defining customer-centered systems by Hugh Beyer