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Favorite authorsMartin Amis, Louis Auchincloss, W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, David Brooks, Bill Bryson, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Gibson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henry James, Pagan Kennedy, Anne Lamott, Sinclair Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov, Walker Percy, Eric S. Raymond, Philip Roth, William Shakespeare, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Wilson, Tom Wolfe (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstores57th Street Books, Book House, Books Kinokuniya - New York, City Lights Bookstore, Foyles, Golden Bough Bookstore, Good Books Cafe, Half Price Books - Cedar Rapids, Karl Marx Buchhandlung, Powell's - Hyde Park, Prairie Avenue Bookshop, Prairie Lights Books, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore, Strand Bookstore

Favorite librariesCedar Rapids (Ia.) Public Library, Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center, Furman Smith Law Library Mercer University, Hennepin County Library - Minneapolis Central Branch, Hennepin County Library - Walker Branch, Hennepin County Library - Washburn Branch, Jack Tarver Library - Mercer University, Kenton County Public Library - Erlanger Branch, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Salmon P. Chase College of Law Library - Northern Kentucky University, Stillwater Public Library, The Mercantile Library, Washington Memorial Library - Middle Georgia Regional Library System

Other favoritesGoethe-Institut Chicago, Alliance Française de Chicago, Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta, Alliance Française d'Atlanta, The Wren's Nest - Home of Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier Cottage

About meI'm a law school librarian, and I've been hoarding books since I was 8 (in 1970!)

About my libraryMy library's subject matter ranges from architecture to Zen Buddhism. I've had to weed some titles over the years, but I've schlepped most of my books through several interstate moves. I'm really enjoying cataloging on LibraryThing, but I keep asking myself: If I have so many books, why am I not smarter?! Well, many of the books that I own, I've not read - it's a work in progress!

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Environmental Justice : Law, Policy, and Regulation by Clifford Rechtschaffen

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Materials for a Basic Course in Civil Procedure by Richard H. Field

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Classic Cooking with Coca-Cola by Elizabeth Candler Graham

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Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

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The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West

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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Rendered into English Quatrains by Omar Khayyam

You never should have told me about this site. Now I have you to blame for not getting my work done.
-Melanie

posted by mbruchet at 12:19 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2009

It is always interesting to me to check on who else owns a book i have just added and see what we share. I am retired, and this is when you may have time to actually read from your collection. While my daughter keeps reminding me that I can just go to the library to find the books I am glad I kept them. They mark times in our lives...of the books we share
Tom Sawyer, which I read in the 5th grade, then reread with my grandchildren when it was in their freshman reading list.
Most recently Karmow's book on Vietnam has been a real eye opener, since I lived thorugh it through the television news. Why didn't I know the trutth I kept asking myself.
Now...Smartes Guys in the Room...again, why didn't I know.

And the boook on Nevis that brought me to your collection. A wonderful weekend actually visiting the island while I was in the Peace Corps.

I do not have shelving for my books so settled on boxes and have included the Box numer in my tags so I can go back and find them.

Enjoy your books.

posted by carterchristian1 at 5:28 am (EST) on Jul 18, 2009

There are alternate subtitles, but "grouch" is inaccurate. "geezer" and "curmudgeon" are the correct versions.

"Dewey" was a Mother's Day gift from Mairin to Shelli.

posted by DromJohn at 2:00 pm (EST) on May 13, 2009

Happiness
by: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

I asked the professors
who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives
who boss the work of thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though
I was trying to fool with them
And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along
the Desplaines river
And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with
their women and children
and a keg of beer and an accordion.

posted by theoldman at 12:11 pm (EST) on May 12, 2009

Hi Jim,

Thanks very much for the compliments on my collection.

I've got to change my profile info. I was in Europe during the Bookfair but ended up not going. Prague and Budapest were too strong a draw plus I had another meeting in Munich that started the day after the Bookfair. And there were only so many business related things that I could drag me friends too. Maybe this year.

I am going to New York in May for Book Expo.

Take care. Hope to hear from you soon.

Dan

posted by e-zReader at 9:17 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I'm flattered. We have a bunch of interesting titles in common.

What are you reading now? I'm finishing up The Torturer's Wife and starting Auden in Love.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Dan

posted by e-zReader at 7:03 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2009

Thank you for adding my library to your interesting library list. I have returned the favor.

posted by Chapinlibrary at 10:02 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2008

Thanks for adding our library to your 'Friends and 'Interesting Libraries' list. Looks like your house must as full of books as ours. But we daren't move, because we don't think we could afford a place big enough to hold them :-) !

posted by iannmag at 4:26 am (EST) on May 13, 2008

Hello Jim. Thank you for connecting with me. I see we both live in the same state! Be sure to check out my book signings around the Atlanta area in 2008. Let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely, Thomas

posted by sonshi at 8:17 pm (EST) on Apr 24, 2008

Hello,
I have just spotted that you have been kind enough to have added me to your 'Friends' and 'Interesting Libraries' lists.
I am delighted that you have done this as my collection has taken me many years and much pleasure to assemble. Although,a few years ago I had an extension to the house built so that they could all be housed there.this has not in fact worked and they have now spread to all rooms in the house except the kitchen and the bathroom.Oh well I must agree with Anthony Powell who called one of his novels "Books Do Furnish a Room" .
All the best

posted by devenish at 1:24 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2008

Private watch list is much better than friend.

posted by DromJohn at 4:57 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2008

Hello Walshga,
sorry for trouble you,
I'm very interested in book "Le nouveau sans frontieres"(2), that you have in your library.
Do you have maybe this book in electronic version?
I will be very thankful if you can share it with me.))

Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Lidia

posted by lifuby at 8:16 am (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

Hey, I just added a photo of The Boy Engineer, in case you'd like to do the same.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:10 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2007

Just dropped in because according to the zeitgeist you have the same-sized library as mine. As I suspected that item on the page is rarely updated - you have added at least another 20 books. I'm still plugging away at mine.

Gerald
Sintra, Portugal

posted by botanica at 11:31 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2007

Yes, Krochs and Brentanos was a great book store. I was very sad when the superstores drove it out of business - it deteriorated very badly at the end. But I also still have memories and some of my books have the K&B tag on the back. The Lakeview neighborhood is great (it still has a few good used bookstores, but their number is dwindling). Coincidentally one of the members of a book group I am in has a condo on Deming. Small world - JW

posted by jwhenderson at 5:57 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2007

Glad to hear from a former "Chicagoan". I've lived in Lakeview near Belmont Harbor for almost thirty years. During that time I've accumulated a few books, and I always thought I was being particular about what I bought and read! The authors you mentioned are among my favorites, at least some of their work. Most recently I read Fathers and Sons by Turgenev and would recommend it. - JW

posted by jwhenderson at 5:53 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

I used to have 2,575 books (mostly textbooks, especially math) as a Teenager. I was 17 when I last counted. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on whether you favor my back and friends, or favor love of books, I've gotten rid of most of them. I only saved some of the more collectable books, or books I needed for research. I was having too much troubles finding people willing to help me move, and no funds to have professionals move me. I'd recommend NOT doing what I did. I'd keep your books. Books are so worth it! I had a little room I used as a library. :D

posted by tpgames at 10:21 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2007

Thanks for selecting my library as one of your interesting libraries. You have some of my favorite books in your collection, both novels (e.g. The Leopard and The Radetzky March) and non-fiction (e.g. Seven Pillars of wisdom and James' Principles of Psychology). Like you I have not read many of the books that I own, and I keep looking for new favorites!

posted by jwhenderson at 1:30 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2007

The Shelster laughed at #201, "and wonders why it hasn't been lent to [her] husband."

Not that I would read it.

posted by DromJohn at 5:46 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2007

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