Andi K

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Sometimes it is pictures of me and my love, or me and my daughter. Sometimes its just me.

"Attempts at description are stupid: who can all at once describe a human being? even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of... more »

Sometimes my Avatar art is courtesy of Bryan Collins. Visit bryandrinkscoffee.com to see more.
Sometimes it is pictures of me and my love, or me and my daughter. Sometimes its just me.

"Attempts at description are stupid: who can all at once describe a human being? even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances." - from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Even so, I shall try...

I believe that:
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity." - P. Fitzgerald's The Bookshop

One of my favorite literary moments ever:
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen's Persuasion

I am a wife (I have a fantastic husband who I proudly claim as the sexiest man alive), a mother (my beautiful daughter's name is Ayla Zepharyn), a dog lover (I have a beagle named Geoffrey Chaucer and two siberian huskey/pitt bull crossbreeds named Anyanka and Winnifred), a bookseller (I am the inventory merchandiser for the best used bookstore company in the world), a third degree black belt (in Northern Shaolin Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu), aspiring gardener, a Christian, a sister, an aunt (to six bright eyed booklovers), a college graduate (I have a BBA in Marketing and Management: Entrepreneurship), a hope-to-be author, a movie making enthusiast (was a set designer for Something Electric Films, but got married and moved away), oh yeah... and a bibliomaniac.

I am also the admin for two fabulous groups: JARS and Classical Re-Education. Please feel free to hop in on discussions and/or join the groups! I'd love to have you.

Please bury me in the library
In the clean, well-lighted stacks
Of Novels, History, Poetry
Right next to the Paperbacks.

Where the Kids' Books dance
With True Romance
And the Dictionary dozes,
Please bury me in the library
With a dozen long-stemmed proses.

Way back by a rack of Magazines,
I won't be sad too often
If they bury me in the library
With Bookworms in my coffin.

-- J. Patrick Lewis

My ratings:
1 star - A blight upon the face of the earth. (borrowed this phrase from Tinky)
2 stars - We had a failure to communicate. (also borrowed this phrase from Tinky)
3 stars - I was feeling quite neutral or it just wasn't splendid enough to be special... read the review for specifics.
4 stars - Something special.
5 stars - How did I ever live without it? « less