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- Joined
- Jun 16, 2010
- Real Name
- Joan
- About My Library
- Non-fiction: pre-WWII reference books; wood block illustrated books; subject dictionaries; encyclopedias; books about books; language; vintage cookbooks; food writing; textiles; popular culture & society; Rockwell Kent-Illustrator; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam: editions, fine bindings, ephemera, variants, reference, criticism.
Fiction: illustrated novels; wordless books.
Wishlist: Serves as a handy guide for future purchases and books to investigate at a later date.
I use public libraries for leisure reading: mysteries, best sellers, character-driven novels, hard science fiction. - About Me
- Retired librarian. MLIS UC Berkeley. Unrepentant bibliophile.
- Location
- Santa Barbara, California
- Favorite Authors
- Chris Van Allsburg, Nick Bantock, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Lee Child, Agatha Christie, Paul Conrad, Elbert Hubbard, Richard P. Feynman, Ivan Goncharov, Baltasar Gracián, Carl Hiaasen, Tony Hillerman, Barbara Hodgson, J. A. Jance, Rockwell Kent, Omar Khayyám, Betty MacDonald, David Mamet, Harold McGee, Herman Melville, John Milton, Dorothy Parker, Dr. Seuss, William Shakespeare, Alexander McCall Smith, Raymond A. Sokolov, Edward R. Tufte, H. G. Wells, David Wiesner
- Local Favorites
Bookstores: Bookmans - Phoenix, Browsers' Bookstore (Corvallis), Chaucer's Books, COAS: My Bookstore, Powell's City of Books (Portland)
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