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Hi, thanks for the invite Erin. I'm a physical chemist and I also teach chemistry at university level. I read mainly non-fic science and history, also some SF and fantasy. And anything else that sounds great.
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I tend to read mainly non-fiction (science, parenting, discovery), science fiction (heavy on time travel, post-apocalyptic, and alien first encounter), and classics. I also moderate the Time Travel and Thomas Hardy groups on GoodReads, so some of the books I'm reading for those groups will cross over here.
I'm the executive director of a history museum, which is seriously cutting into my reading time. I read a lot of YA, historical things, with the occasional professional book club.I also have a sadly neglected blog: www.kidlithistory.com
Hi, I manage a veterinary hospital. I will read about anything...just not into non-fiction. I like science fiction,fantasy,PA, I have been know to read a romance novel, historical fiction, steam punk/urban fantasy, I like horror novels as well. So kinda all over the place. I have 3 cats that help me read. :)
Hi!!! I am an accountant with a university parking office...so you know, TONS OF FUN (insert ALL THE SARCASM). I LOVE to read, and I'm getting my 6 year old into the awesomeness that are books as well. Heaven for me would be a never ending library with all the time to read EVERYTHING. IRL, I think I'll be dead before I finish my TBR list, so, there's that. :)Also, Melissa, I will have to learn more about your job because it sounds AWESOME. I am currently thinking about going to grad school for Library Science, but I like learning about other way cool jobs, like yours!
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I got a hooked on phonics app for my 4-year-old, and she's ridiculously excited by the words she's able to read after just a couple of days. My husband and both want her to be as crazy about books as we are. She was thrilled yesterday to find that she could read the cover of the book her aunt got her: Batman versus Man Bat. Gotta start somewhere, right?
My husband actually just finished library science school a year ago in hopes of a law library directorship down the road (he's had the law degree & worked as a law librarian for years). Everyone I know whose taken those classes has thought they were mainly a pile of steaming you-know-what. I think the main problem is that the library profession is going technical and digital and many of the grad programs aren't keeping up with the modernization of the profession because the professors aren't IN the field or they refuse to see what's happening. If you can find a program that has modernized itself and is heavy on the technical side of librarianship, I think you'd find yourself more marketable because the profession is changing at an alarming rate.
A lot of the programs I have been looking into are all ALA accredited (which is that good or not anymore??) and a few of them seem tech focused (University of Michigan really does! lol) it's funny though, because I would love to be a librarian but I would REALLY love to be one that specializes in rare books and archives and such. Whenever I read books that have characters who do that (like The DaVinci Code, A Discovery of Witches are a couple) I just get SO EXCITED!!! I'm also a history major, so there's that. LOL!
How funny, when I wanted to be a librarian as well. That's long past of happening now. As a child I used to check books out to myself. I still have a few that I wrote the cards in. You know where the dates for check out and in were stamped. Now I go to the library and we have bar code scanners. Cool. But I kinda miss the "old ways". ")
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Ha. I still have a stack of library envelopes and cards that I keep in my desk at work for when people borrow books from me. I do miss those at the regular library because you could always see who read it before you and feel some sort of kinship to them. My hometown library still has those, and we had to go by for my husband to use their wi-fi last summer when we were in town, so I took the book off the shelf that I was currently reading and found my high school best friend's mom's name in it. Then I picked up another I was planning to read and found her name there as well. Ah, we could have been the best of friends had I stuck around my hometown.
That's so neat! I liked those as well. I've been thinking about buying one of those "personal library kits" but....no one borrows books from me. Because all of my friends are lame. Lol
Lupe wrote: "That's so neat! I liked those as well. I've been thinking about buying one of those "personal library kits" but....no one borrows books from me. Because all of my friends are lame. Lol"They have no idea what they are missing!
Hi all. My name is Ken, and I'm a web developer. I mainly read sci-fi, horror, poetry, and "literary" fiction, but I've been getting into urban fantasy and some YA recently. Thanks for the invite, Amy!
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Thanks for the invite..."
You're welcome. I'm glad you joined us.
Thanks for the invite! My name is Zeke. I like cheese and clean laundry. I also like to read, but I don't stick to one particular genre. Woo!
Thanks for the invite! My name is Zeke. I like cheese and clean laundry. I also like to read, but I don't stick to one particular genre. Woo!
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There's a poem in there somewhere ... or perhaps a lymeric.
There once was a guy named Zeke
Who liked clean laundry and cheese.
He liked to read
Everything that he see'd,
So now he reads cheese to the bees.
Hey :)Thank you for the invite.
My name is Sarah and I work as a dispensary assistant in a large chain of pharmacys.
Reading is how I unwind after a long day at work and I'll give almost any genre a go but I must admit I'm not a fan of lovey dovey romance stuff.
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