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Livrarias favoritasThe Dusty Bookshelf

Bibliotecas favoritasLawrence Public Library - Lawrence, KS

Outros favoritosUniversity of Kansas

Sobre mimI just spent last night (9/24/2009) bar hopping with China Mieville...the height of my literary career thus far :)

I'm working on my M.A. in English Literature at the University of Kansas. I spec'lize in Victorian literature and scientific discourse, especially evolution in all its forms and its formative effects on literature. I hate that they make us pick, though; I also love modernism, post-modernism, medieval lit, gender theory, theory of medicine and the body...oh, and sci-fi. James Gunn teaches at my school! :)
I teach comp classes and am happily teaching my first fiction class in the fall. It is now no longer a question if I want to be a librarian or a professor, as I am now (a lackey to, but in training to be) both.
Like H.P. Lovecraft, I enjoy cats and ice cream, but unlike him, I rather enjoy women and foreigners, so I guess we're really not alike at all.

I also love me some computer games (even console games I play on an emulator), geocaching, scrapbooking, writing stories on the seacoast, gathering family stories, making jewelry, crushes on comic book characters, monopolizing used book stores, playing D&D with my grad school friends, and going to bars and talking eagerly about the pros and cons of post-structuralism vs historical materialism with the friends who aren't interested in D&D, and listening to as much progressive metal as is humanly possible.

I know I have a billion "interesting libraries," but what can I say? You're all interesting. Plus I use you for recommendations, so for purely selfish reasons, it's in my best interest to have a large collection of interesting booklists.

Reading: Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill

Read in 2009:
Under the Dome, Stephen King
The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society, Augusta Trobaugh
Ptolemy's Gate, Jonathan Stroud
The Golem's Eye, Jonathan Stroud
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies, Ed. James R. Simmons Jr.
A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park
The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud
Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli
Earth, David Brin
The Coral Thief, Rebecca Stott
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie
After You, Julie Buxbaum
Succubus Heat, Richelle Mead
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery
The Great SF Stories v. 1, ed. Isaac Asimov
Last Night, James Salter
Dreaming in French, Megan McAndrews
Starman Jones, Robert Heinlein
The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination, Harriet Ritvo
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Wilfred L. Guerin, Earle Labor, etc, etc, etc
Beautiful Children, Charles Bock
Blankets, Craig Thompson
Battlestar Galactica: Echoes of New Caprica, Emily Salzfass, Richard Hatch, Mike Wellman
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Hotel de Dream, Edmund White
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Arctic Fox: Life at the Top of the World, Garry Hamilton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Carter Clay, Elizabeth Evans
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Paradise, Donald Barthelme
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (re-read)
End of the Century, Chris Roberson
The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan
Augustus, John Williams
The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan
Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization, Ken McAlpine
The Titan's Curse, Rick Riordan
The Unruly Queen, Flora Fraser
The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan
Day, A.L. Kennedy
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Grand Complication, Allen Kurzweil
Cherokee Thoughts: Honest & Uncensored, Robert J. Conley
Last Last Chance, Fiona Maazel
Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop, Joseph Levyveld
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection
Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould
Great Expectations: The Graphic Novel, Charles Dickens
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, Padgett Powell
Vathek, William Beckford
Fatal Light, Richard Currey
The Cube Root of Uncertainty, Robert Silverberg
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry, edd. James Chandler & Maureen N. McLane
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Year is '42, Nella Bielski
The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
Gogol's Wife & Other Stories, Tommaso Landolfi
The Night Battles, M.F. Bloxam
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town, Warren St. John
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll
Waverley, Sir Walter Scott
Ennui, Maria Edgeworth
The Golems of Gotham, Thane Rosenbaum
Summer Pony, Jean Slaughter Doty
The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, Nicholas Shrady
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
The Old Manor House, Charlotte Smith
Paul & Virginia, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Villages, John Updike
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene
The House of Storms, Ian R. MacLeod
Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel, Mary Shelley
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst

My favorite last 5 books:
Ptolemy's Gate, Jonathan Stroud
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park

2008 total: 120
Top 10 of 2008 (no particular order):

1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
3. The New Weird, Eds. Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
4. The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
5. Baltasar and Blimunda, Jose Saramago
6. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
7. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
8.The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. The Wall, John Hersey
10. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, Lawrence Weschler

Sobre a minha bibliotecaLOTS and LOTS of fiction of various stripes--usually pretty quality stuff. Including, of course, quality science fiction, fantasy, and horror. I appreciate across all genres. I have a pretty generous selection of history, as well, as well as various dramas and poetry. And I owns them all!
I have a considerable helping of philosophy and psychology, which comes from being married to a philosopher. I've only read, oh, 1/25 of these, though. I'm workin' on 'em.
I've told various people I own between 1,000 and 3,000 books, but my most accurate guess would be about 2,500. Only time and data entry shall tell!
I think I've doubled my book collection since I've moved to Lawrence, which is no small feat.

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