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A high-school history teacher in my earlier life, I live in suburban Philadelphia with my husband and 2 sons and have been a magazine and web editor for the past 20 years.
About my libraryEclectic but heavy on historical fiction and non-fiction. I'm fortunate to have a library in my home but have only found the time to catalog about 55% of my books. So this in an ongoing hobby. Luckily I've also become addicted to LT.
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I've read all of the Thomas/Charlotte Pitt series (finished 'Buckingham Palace Gardens" in Aug. '09), most of the Monk series (need to Find/Read the most recent Monk), and all five of her WWI series. I've also read a couple of her Christmas/Holiday short novels featuring secondary characters from the Monk series).
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It was nice seeing you at the party yesterday.
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Thanks,
Chris
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posted by MEENIEREADS at 3:31 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2009
Thanks for the heads up about Outlander. I've always been a fairly liberal reader (and person), but I have been a teacher for so long that anything that is potentially offensive sets off alarm bells for me. Not sure how I feel about that. Perhaps it's a self-protective mechanism against possible reactions from parents? Do you have that experience? Still, I look forward to the Outlander books. Thanks so much for your input!
Anne
posted by AMQS at 11:54 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2009
miz honey
posted by MEENIEREADS at 6:49 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2009
Thank you for noticing my library - it is all the flattering as you are obviously a lady who knows her books.
posted by Ductor at 3:57 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009
Anne
posted by AMQS at 1:42 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009
I see we have a few favorites in common ~ although not on my official LT favorite authors list, I also love the Anne Perry series (both) and think Doris Kearns Goodwin's "A Team of Rivals" is amazing. Another similarity between us is the way we grew up loving books. Your evocative description of 2-year old you stacking your Golden Books brought up an image of myself at around the same age sitting in the corner of my grandma's kitchen where my "library" of Golden Books was the bottom shelf of the cart that held the electric roaster. I loved those books, and still have some of them ~ the ones that didn't fall apart from over-handling. :)
Just a quick note on "Guernsey." If you still haven't read it, I think you will like it a lot. I loved it.
Happy reading!
posted by Storeetllr at 2:20 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2009
There's a new ETTA Facebook page!
Maybe you could start the discussion!
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Thanks,
GK
posted by gkolpan at 12:00 am (EST) on Jan 28, 2009
Thanks for adding me to the list of your interesting libraries. Quite flattering!
I see we share a passion for Charlotte and Thomas Pitt. What about William Monk? I like this series even more, as the mysteries are more complicated even though at times more disturbing. It will be interesting to hear your opinion.
In the meantime, happy reading!!
Paola :-))
posted by aluvalibri at 10:00 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2008
I actually haven't had a chance to read "Guernsey" either! Actually for the same reason you haven't- I have a bunch of ARCs to read through. I recently bought "Guernsey" but it's sitting in my giant TBR pile. I've heard it's amazing though!
Sidenote- that's awesome that you're an editor. That's one of the things I'm considering I want to be in the future.
posted by Kegsoccer at 2:16 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2008
Best,
David
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