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I'm an avid bibliophile, and the books are taking over my house! My two daughters are also readers, so we share our books. I have read most types of fiction, but try to stay away from most non-fiction. Reading is my way to relax and escape everyday life! I have worked in early childhood and elementary classrooms for 21 years, so I have read a...more »
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  • JC

    jc says

    Notice from your group: Dean Koontz
    Octobers group book we will be Reviewing/ Discussing is “ Darkfall”

    posted 6 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Puddin' Pocket

    puddin' pocket says

    I love fantasy stuff, but also love a good mystery. I just finished reading the Artemis Fowl series and I loved it. I am very attracted to things that are Irish ( I am Irish on both sides of my family) so that is what drew me into Artemis since he is an Irish boy genius, but once I started reading the first chapter of the first book, I was hooked. Do you have a favorite author or book? I am like you, I LOVE reading. So do my kids. On my friends list are my oldest daughter (Kay R), my youngest daughter(Shannon S) and my step daughter (Ms Sisco) and they are big readers.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Puddin' Pocket

    puddin' pocket says

    I looked thru your book shelf and you have read some really interesting books. Your shelf gave me ideas for reading. I am so glad this club came along and has brought people like you who give people like me IDEAS!!!

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Davin K

    davin k says

    Clive Barker writes horror but he also has stories that I suppose could be considered Fantasy, although you won't find a single Dragon, Elf or Wizard. He wrote a novella called The Hellbound Heart which is what the Hellraiser Mythos is based on. And yes there is an entire mythology designed around this one short book. Start with The Hellbound Heart, The Great and Secret Show, which is the first book "of the art", or Abarat, which is the first part of a great story about a young girl from middle america.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • T F

    t f says

    Hi,

    I read your bio and we sound like peas in a pod. I read voraciously, anything and everything and appreciate the ideas for my next trip to the "9 Lives" Bookstore.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Marissa M

    marissa m says

    Thanks for letting me browse your shelves, I got alot of ideas. Aslo you should check out Laurell K Hamilton. Here Anita Blake series and Merry Gentry series is what brought me to the world of fantasy. thanks again

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • racethom

    racethom says

    LOL! Just a little huh?

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Marissa M

    marissa m says

    HI!! Thanks for letting me browse through your shelves, I got alot of ideas!! I must say I never thought to add my kids books. I want to suggest Laurell K. Hamilton ( I didn't see her on you list). Her Anita Blake series and Merry Gentry series is what brought me in the fantasy world. Thanks again

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • racethom

    racethom says

    Your family sounds like fun :)

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • racethom

    racethom says

    Out of curiosity, how old are your daughters? I also share some books with my daughter but she is 17 and has a much more broad reading base than I do. I read mostly the escapist fiction literature (popular fiction). She reads EVERYTHING. I used to read some of the more "heavy hitting" literature (classics, Pulitzer Prize winners, etc.) but am have not been in the mood for them in a while. My dad, though, has the broadest reading base out of anyone I'd ever met. You name it, he's read something about it or in it or something ...

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • racethom

    racethom says

    According to Shelfari, our shelves have 196 books in common ... if I remembered the number correctly. I suspect, from what you just wrote to me, that we actually have WAY more than that in common. The McCaffrey, Norton, Evanovich, Koontz, Briggs, and Harris books alone would account for a lot of that number. BTW: one of my other Shelfari friends says that you can get on someone else's shelf, find books that you've also read, and add it to your shelf that way. It supposedly is a faster way of loading your Shelfari shelf than the hunt and find method.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • racethom

    racethom says

    Wow! We should have a TON of books in common then. I'll have to go look at your shelf. Be back in a minute ...

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • racethom

    racethom says

    I'm just snooping around in people's accounts. I noticed the Pern book on your "random books from my shelf". I probably have close if not all of the books in that series and started collecting them when I was a kid. That's saying something considering the fact I'm now 50.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • The_Stuffy

    the_stuffy says

    Come join me in the all new Patricia Briggs Fans Shelfari group! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/27793/about

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Maggie T

    maggie t says

    I just started reading the Stephanie Plum series a couple of months ago and just finished the latest. Love the fun and frivolity of the characters. Since I am out of Plum, I have thought of reading other Janet E's books. Love Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb also and my favorites are the Three Sisters Island trilogy. Refuse to read the vampire series though. I'll check out your shelf to see if something catches my eye. Always on the lookout for good books. Have you read any of the FBI series by Catherine Coulter? She's another favorite author of mine.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Je_R_K

    je_r_k says

    I hope all is well and that the summer is giving you many reasons to smile. How is Faerie Path coming along? I read a trully great book I think you and your daughters will enjoy it is called "The Magic Thief" by Sarah Prineas. May your reading bring a smile to your face and your smile light the pages and the words you read.
    Je_R_K

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • gul

    gul says

    which 10 books you will name,the ones that left a mark on u?

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kelly B

    kelly b says

    Not yet. The last one I read was Brother Odd. I have yet to get Odd Hours, but sure I will. I have a bunch of his books and my first one was Phantoms and remains my fav.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Je_R_K

    je_r_k says

    the Dragon Keeper is so far a trilogy I am at the end of the third book now I should be finished tonight, hopefully it wont end, but the second book is called "The Garden of the Purple Dragon" .... I would humbly accept your invitation to your group but I would like your okay to do so for I do not have a job in teaching children nor do I work with them per say

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Karen J

    karen j says

    Sorry,EC for Ellora's Cave.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )


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