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Member: JonathanGorman

CollectionsYour library (160), Wishlist (22), Currently reading (5), To read (33), Read but unowned (258), All collections (435)

Reviews141 reviews

Tagsbeer (9), recipes (6), brewing (5), programming (5), horror (3), humor (3), cookbook (3), cooking (3), rpg (2), comics (2) — see all tags

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GroupsComics, Cookbookers, Food History, GSLISers @ UofI, Librarians who LibraryThing, Purely Programmers, Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night

Favorite authorsRay Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresHalf Price Books - Countryside, Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Powell's City of Books, Powell's Technical Books, The Book Bin, Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore

Favorite librariesThe Urbana Free Library

About meI'm a programmer/librarian hybrid, working for the U of I.

I love games of all types, although lately I've been focusing on "gamers" board games and card games.

On the culinary front, lately I've been getting into sausage making and hoping to get more into beer making. The sausage making stems mostly from the fact I really like a wide variety of sausage and just can't find many good ones locally.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, by far. If I ever got more money and time than I knew what to do with I suspect I'd be one of those people who end up creating elaborate boobytraps and the like to terrify trick-or-treaters.

I having been reading more comic books, sci-fi, and fantasy the past few years instead of "serious literature." Not that I don't like serious literature, I just tend to notice the other stuff more.

About my libraryI'm still adding books. I was using LivingSocial's Visual Bookshelf for a while till they started messing with their site and restricting usage. In the past few months have got out of the habit of tracking my reading. I've copied over most of what was there and will hopefully get a chance to add my actual library (some books on cooking, programming, comic books and then random other stuff).

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Real nameJon Gorman

LocationChampaign IL

Emailjonathan.gormangmail.com

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Member sinceFeb 19, 2007

Currently readingBeautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Andy Oram
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones by Anthony Bourdain
Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Federico Biancuzzi
Four-Season Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 by Alan Moore