Medlemarethusarose

Real Name

Susan

About My Library

I'm adding to this as I get the urge, which I seem to have quite a bit. I'll probably move to a paid account so I can add more of my books. I am surprised at how many connections I get - mostly for C.J. Cherryh and Robin Hobb. I've stopped adding other fantasy and started picking though my shelves for other material. I'll be interested to see just how much overlap my collection my show. I'm a little shocked myself. I never thought of myself as that much of a fantasy fan, but that seems to be what connects me to others on the site so far. There are many more books in my house.
Well, I did go to a lifetime account, and have been adding books, but no tags as yet. I've added a lot of fantasy and sf; i'm going to work on the mysteries and non-fiction. I found several duplicates in my collection; that may be one of the biggest values of this exercise for me, as I get rid of them and acquire more shelving space. I'm also fascinated at the titles only one or two other members own, and even more at those for which I am so far the only lister. Book gatherers are a varied lot.

About Me

I've been a life-long reader, since I was 5. Of course, since I have worked in a university library for many years I tend to read much more than I own. My collection of books are often gathered because the library did not have them; this accounts for some of the fantasy. I also have a few childhood books still around, and some that I bought because I wanted to have what I remembered from the small-town library of my childhood. I hoped to introduce my nieces to books I enjoyed, but our tastes, and certainly the cultural drives of my youth are different from those my nieces and great-niece feel.

Sted

Champaign

Hjemmeside

http://home.earthlink.net/~arethusarose

Memberships

TinyCat

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Also On

BookCrossing, Dreamwidth, Pandora

Er ved at læse

Housman Country: Into the Heart of England af Peter Parker

Ancestral Night af Elizabeth Bear

Yndlingsforfattere

Elizabeth Bear, Jack Bruce, Sarah Caudwell, C. J. Cherryh, Edmund Crispin, Peter Dickinson, Leon Garfield, Rudyard Kipling, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Karin Lowachee, Robin McKinley, Naomi Mitchison, Arthur Ransome, Steven Saylor, Rex Stout, Rosemary Sutcliff, Josephine Tey, P. G. Wodehouse, Ella Young

Local Favorites

Boghandlere: Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Champaign

Biblioteker: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Main Stacks

Member Connections

Venner

Aelith, Christina_E_Mitchell, DeepLiquid, Ghad, KarenIrelandPhillips, kokipy, laurelzito, LizzieD, madamc, MtnSk8tr, reading_fox, sokrayblue, stellarexplorer, ThePrib, Theta9

Interesting Library

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