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Acerca de míThe 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 almost-14-year old kitty Inara Starbuck and new kitties Zoe Rose, 2 1/2, and Washburne Ryder, 1 1/2. Sad to report - Freddie Mercury the Betta Fish went to fish heaven on April 15, 2021 but is buried in the garden near the Tiger Grass.

Our 27-year old daughter lives in Wilmington NC. She got her AA degree in Business Administration in May - what a time to graduate! - and so far has landed a part-time tutoring job with the school.

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.

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:

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a new normal with lots of books, current thread

karenmarie ROOTs around her shelves, current thread

Acerca de mi bibliotecaExcept 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.

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.

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Autores favoritosJane 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 (Favoritos compartidos)

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

MembresíaER. Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing/Sorteo entre Miembros

También enBookMooch

Nombre verdaderoKaren

UbicaciónPittsboro North Carolina

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Miembro desdeOct 1, 2007