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Member: melannen

CollectionsStar Trek (9), Mom's books (468), Collectible YA (80), parascience (322), Stored (738), No longer owned (723), Your library (2,140), Wishlist (1), Currently reading (22), All collections (3,743)

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Tagsmoved (2,011), read (1,534), sf (1,218), wrong cover (1,089), series (1,068), paperback (789), stored (741), nonfiction (540), _togoaway (484), mom's house (468) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsPauline Ashwell, Jane Austen, Richard David Bach, Elizabeth H. Boyer, Katharine Mary Briggs, Diane Carey, Lewis Carroll, Daniel Cohen, L. Sprague de Camp, Diane Duane, Alan Dean Foster, Stephen Jay Gould, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thom Gunn, E. W. Hildick, Laura Lee Hope, Molly Ivins, Diana Wynne Jones, Astrid Lindgren, Patricia A. McKillip, Daniel Pinkwater, H. Beam Piper, Elizabeth Marie Pope, Stephen Potter, Terry Pratchett, Joel Rosenberg, Eric Frank Russell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Odell Shepard, L. Neil Smith, Caroline Stevermer, Rosemary Sutcliff, G. B. Trudeau, Elizabeth Willey, Patricia C. Wrede, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBlue Ridge Hospice Purcellville Thrift Shop, Goodwill - Millersville, Twilite Zone Comics

Favorite librariesAnne Arundel County Public Library - West County Area Library

Other favoritesNational Book Festival, Ann Arrundell County Historical Society Book Sale, Capclave 2009, Baltimore Comic-Con 2008

About meA simple twentysomething doing her best to avoid Real Life. Books have always been my drug of choice.

ETA: Friending policy (alas for the days when this was one site that didn't need one!) I like friends, but I am a fairly introverted person, and I'm much more likely to reply to a friend request if I know why you want to be friends - if I've never met you (or don't know you by your lt name) it's probably not a bad idea to leave me a comment saying hi while you're at it. Feel free to add me to watch lists or interesting libraries whenever you like, though! That takes no effort on my part. :D

About my libraryThis house is full of books. I personally rarely buy one that costs more than $.50, but considering the number of flea markets, used book sales, and thrift stores I frequent, that doesn't actually limit the number. Books with the SF or YA tag are actually in my and my sister's combined collection; someday Mom will get sick of having it in her house and we will have to split it up. We'll probably need to hire a divorce lawyer. Books with the Uncles tag were duplicate copies given to us by our uncles, who have even more ridiculously large SF collections than we do, but don't waste nearly as much time online. Books with the 'parascience' tag are in my library of occult/folklore/paranormal/mystical/anom... volumes. The others should be self-explanatory.

Skstarwars, currently working on outgrowing its free account, tracks my sister's and my ongoing attempt to own every Star Wars book ever published. (Ten years ago we tried to do that with Star Trek, but quit and passed the collection on to our mother.)

I'm slowly working on adding books to this account by hand, since my old catalog uses LC numbers instead of ISBNs. Considering that my last estimate for books-in-house was in the ballpark of 3,000, that may take a while.

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Member sinceOct 8, 2005

Currently readingThe lore of the unicorn by Odell Shepard
The Mark of the Cat by Andre Norton
Seventeenth and eighteenth century painting (20,000 years of world painting) by Michael Levey
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. LeGuin
Fantasists on Fantasy: A collection of Critical Reflections by Eighteen Masters of the Art by Robert H. Boyer
Glass and man by Anne Huether
Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
The Empty Chair (Star Trek: Rihannsu, Book 5) by Diane Duane
The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air (Dover Books on Earth Sciences) by M. Minnaert
Maps and their makers: an introduction to the history of cartography by G. R. Crone
The A.P.R.O Bulletin, 1966-1971 by Aerial Phenomena Research Organization Inc.
Sea Beach at Ebb Tide by Augusta Foote Arnold
Magical and Mystical Sites: Europe and the British Isles by Elizabeth Pepper
The Mystery of the Wizard Clip by Raphael Brown
From Eroica with Love - Volume 1 (From Eroica With Love (Graphic Novels)) by Aoike Yasuko
Young Bess by Margaret Irwin
Lettering for Reproduction by David Gates
The legends and myths of Hawaii; the fables and folk-lore of a strange people by King of Hawaii David Kalakaua
Walking to Fitness by Seth Bauer
Digital Manga Workshop: An Artist's Guide To Creating Manga Illustrations On Your Computer by Jared Hodges
Nine Ways God Always Speaks: * Offer Only Available In Certain States by Mark Herringshaw
Edible plants and animals : unusual foods from aardvark to zamia by A. D. Livingston
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