You have a wonderful collection of children's books! And we're the only two LTers who own Prefabulous Animiles!

Lähettänyt: miss_read 1:36 pm (EST) May 1, 2007

Heh. Done and ordered. The CN Tower's on the front cover; makes it impossible to miss.

Lähettänyt: alharris 9:34 pm (EST) Mar 11, 2007

Thanks; will check it out right away.

Lähettänyt: alharris 9:21 pm (EST) Mar 11, 2007

ROM scifi -- are you thinking of Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God? There's a vampire novel that takes place partly in and around the ROM: Tanya Huff's Blood Lines (1993). I'll check out the Dennis Lee right away.

Lähettänyt: alharris 2:20 pm (EST) Mar 11, 2007

Hmm ... haven't read Stiff; since switching gears I've been reading mostly about the living. But if you know any scifi set in Toronto, I'll be happy to hear about it (got Robert Sawyer, Guy Gavriel Kay, Cory Doctorow down pat, but not much else). I'm doing research right now on long forgotten Toronto women writers such as Phyllis Brett Young (The Torontonians (1960); Psyche (1959)) and Joyce Marshall Lovers and Strangers (1957)). Nobody seems to remember their work, which is very hard to find; and yet it clearly foregrounds / forecasts the rise of the subsequent generation(s) of women's writers including Margaret Atwood who, starting out in the early 1960s, could not have helped but be very aware of their predecessors' work.

Should we get around to procreating, I'll look forward to pillaging your library titles. And if you come across any good children's books set in Toronto (beyond Bernice Thurman Hunter and Gordon Korman), I'll add them as well.

As for total library size, I think people tend to exaggerate how many books they've got. I did a spine-by-spine count a couple of years ago for insurance purposes and came up with slightly fewer than 5000 titles. How disappointing! I would guess we're at about 6000 now (especially as I've gotten better at balancing intake with culling titles we'll never make use of), but the house (which is big enough) is coming close to capacity (not that this means we'll stop anytime soon). LibraryThing becomes a kind of truth test ... Heh.

Lähettänyt: alharris 8:17 am (EST) Mar 11, 2007

Hey Moira;

Thanks to your suggestion last fall, I've finally gotten around to putting my own Librarything catalogue together. They should pay you a commission here for referrals.

Amy

Lähettänyt: alharris 10:04 am (EST) Mar 7, 2007