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About meI am a sometime-chef and perpetual student, hoping to soon attend graduate school for library and information science.

What you can probably tell by my library: I am a crafty feminist food-loving Buffy fanatic who has thought far too much about religious mythology in pop culture.

What you probably can't tell by my library: I am an oft-pierced Minnesota-born Anglophile with a physical urge to buy anything with a paisley pattern on it.

About my libraryAll of the books in my library I own, though technically a few of them were originally my significant other's (they're on my bookshelves, so they're MINE now! ;) ). Only 300 or so of them currently live with me; the others are in storage about 1500 miles away.

Also, I somehow managed to choose a major in university that ranks among the highest for quantities of required reading. Most of the theoretical and classic anthropology, religion, and gender books were originally purchased for a class (though they will never be parted with).

A note on tags: I only tagged books as "read" if I had read the book in its entirety recently enough to remember major plot points and how much I liked it (basically, after puberty). Those marked "TBR" are ones that I either haven't read at all, or if they were required for a university course, I either wasn't required to read all of it, or had to read it so quickly that I only remember vague ideas in it. "TBR" also means I do have the intention of reading the book sometime in the future. "Hread" means my significant other has read the book (he's decided he likes LT, too).

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Currently readingBuffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by James B. South
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling
Beyond Ava & Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby by Linda Rosenkrantz

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The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park by Jack Lynch

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Beyond Ava & Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby by Linda Rosenkrantz

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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (Phoenix Books) by Milton Mayer

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Field Guide to Produce: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fruit and Vegetable at the Market by Aliza Green

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Betty Crocker's New Chinese Cookbook by Betty Crocker Editors

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A Time to Kill by John Grisham

I want you to know that I literally laughed out loud when browsing through your "Repulsive" collection, I found [Porn for Women] directly next to [Praying Through Life's Problems].

posted by lilyfyrestorm at 12:08 am (EST) on Oct 11, 2009

no, I thought it was next weekend. Damn. Actually, my parents are cleaning out their house so all the kids books that were saved from when I was little came to live with me, and so entered my LibraryThing.

posted by lilyfyrestorm at 2:11 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2009

The Winds of Fate

(Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919)

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life;
'Tis the set of a soul
That decides it's goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

posted by theoldman at 12:02 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your Interesting Libraries. Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 9:17 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2008

I'm kind of extremely lazy about seeing Alaska. Ya-uh-huh, I've been to Fairbanks twice, in like 30 years. I didn't realize Fairbanks has a library or that its denizens could read. I always thought literacy faded out up north, more or less near Wasilla :D

We've got a terrific vista from our living room in Anchorage, looking west over Cook Inlet, at the sunsets over Mt. Susitna. The view takes care of the wilderness spiritual thing for me. Hiking and hunting (and bugs and bears and abandoned buses), no thanks man, I'm cool wit dat.

Ironic, because when I was a kid, in the Catskills, I practically lived in the woods, like a baby Thoreau, and fished almost every day. Frankly, I think the Catskills are much prettier than the Chugach mountain range. Maples trump spruce big time, and trout and black bass trump salmon.

Anchorage has a nice library, once you're inside it. From the outside, it's a typical 1970's Federal neocon-fortress. No doubt, it would be a good place from which to defend against zombies in an space pod plague Armageddon situation. There are several ledges that would be ideal for dropping boiling pots of oil on the attackers.

As you can see, if you have any more questions on Alaska, I'm your guy.

Peace,
Ganeshaka

posted by Ganeshaka at 12:53 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2008

You should bring your library and make it live closer to my library...
Also, I think it's hilarious that we both own "Beyond Jennifer and Jason."
Besos,
Em

posted by lilyfyrestorm at 12:30 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2008

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