Medlemkarenmarie

Riktigt namn

Karen

Om mitt bibliotek

Except for 19 books that I keep in LT to keep the Early Reviewer Gods happy but don't physically own, every book in my library is somewhere on a shelf in my house. I only use this LT account for my cataloged library.

So. What I own is eclectic. Shabby, brand new. Big, little. Straight, gay. Kid books, grown up books. Fiction, nonfiction, reference, old family Bibles, self-published books of poetry by friends of the family, and my grandmother's records book. I've also been known to rescue a book I have no intention of reading but which deserves a place on a shelf instead of being pulped. See my current profile pic, Oldtown Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1869.

My collection is a combination of what I love to read and books I've inherited from family members. Some books I look at and say "Where did YOU come from?" Maybe they just migrate in.

I'm fortunate to have a husband who knows how important books are to me. The Library is 2 walls of floor to ceiling books. There are shelves upstairs in the parlour, shelves in the sunroom, shelves in daughter's former rec room/currently Karen's Retreat. And I just co-opted one bookshelf in my husband's moribund Media Room. Being surrounded by books is very important to me. In addition to being a bibliophile, I am a bibliomaniac.

Om mig

The older I get, the more I try to hide from the extroverts.

One of my biggest pleasures in life is opening a new book.

I live in the sticks on 8 acres with my husband, our 29-year old daughter, our 15-year old kitty Inara Starbuck and 'new' kitties Zoe Rose, 4, and Washburne Ryder, 3.

I retired on January 29, 2016. I'm not bored yet and don't plan on being any time soon. Too many books, too many fun things to do. I'll be ending a third term as President of the local Friends of the Library next June and am still on the book sort team.

And, finally, it's not a day if I haven't had a chance to read. I am always looking for new authors and areas of interest.

Book rating system:

Masterpiece
Stunning
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Average
Bad
Very Bad
Don't Bother
Anathema

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Vistelseort

Pittsboro North Carolina

Medlemskap

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

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Favoritförfattare

Jane Austen, Rita Mae Brown, Bill Bryson, Agatha Christie, Michael Connelly, E. E. Cummings, Joseph J. Ellis, Sue Grafton, Georgette Heyer, Michael Malone, J. K. Rowling, J. D. Salinger, Dorothy L. Sayers, Kurt Vonnegut, Simon Winchester

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Book Riot's 100 must-read works of Jewish Fiction, Cheesy pleasures and odd lots!

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