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Jan 12, 2008
About My Library
Your Library here includes only books I own, with a small exception listed below.* I find the cataloging functions of LT primarily useful to me for managing and working with my actual library, and to connect me to others with similar books and interests. I do not see any use in tracking whether I have read or am reading a book. I do find it useful to track which of my books are top priorities for future reading (TBR). I have no category for books read but not owned, nor do I maintain wishlists on the site.

My Connections are generated from most of my library, minus science fiction and fiction, as these books were skewing MWYB too much.

*I have included in my library a small number of books I have read as audio books in the car from the library. There are also a handful tagged as "unowned", usually books I've borrowed, read, and returned

My interests as they relate to books:

I love books, love learning, love scholarship. I have a deep and abiding curiosity about the universe and about the miracle of our existence in it. I love impossible questions like “Why is there something rather than nothing?” I am deeply grateful for the capacity for awe and wonder.

What do I like to read? Fiction and nonfiction. Poetry and drama. I cut my teeth on science fiction and classics, but I have always read voraciously and widely.

I am obsessed with history in general, but am a hungry consumer of science, history of science, physics and biology in particular, psychology, geology, anthropology, human evolution, paleobiology, cosmology, biography. I love art and I love the creative process, mine and that of other people! I have never yet known more than momentary boredom.

Somehow, all of the above is reflected in my library.
About Me

Link to my most recent YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/fdeWhH8HOg4?si=4xZqn06dBryvKqad

My Reading Thread

Earliest piece of moral instruction recalled: "Books are our friends!"

Earliest memories of deep emotional attachment to books:
1) Crying inconsolably at "The Ugly Duckling", age 3
2) A beloved painting of early childhood-- a triptych-- from the old Leary's Book Store in Philadelphia. It featured a young boy in pajamas, carrying a candle, circa 1850. First panel has him creeping downstairs in the dark of night. The second has him huddled over a precious tome. In the third, he sneaks back upstairs before he can be caught.

If anyone can identify this painting, kindly let me know. I've been looking for a long time!

UPDATE: Triptych found, and now serves as my profile picture above


Cherished attitude about one's library as expressed in fiction:
"My books stand as guarantors of an extended life -- a life that is far more interesting and meaningful than the one I am forced to lead daily." -- roughly recalled from memory of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man

Feelings about the Tag Cloud: A 21st century snapshot of one's mind and one's interests. Complements traditional modes of self-definition.



Authors Good Enough to Place Among My Least Favorite Authors: Iain M Banks, Cormac McCarthy, Don Delillo



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Kirjakauppoja: Bramble Books, Bruised Apple Books and Music, Towne Book Center, Village Bookstore, Wellington Square Bookshop, Westsider Used and Rare Books

Kirjastoja: Briarcliff Manor Public Library, Chappaqua Library

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