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Favorite authorsWilliam Harrison Ainsworth, Alexander Dumas, Aphra Behn, R. D. Blackmore, M.E. Braddon, Anne Brontë, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Fanny Burney, George C. Chesbro, Wilkie Collins, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maria Edgeworth, Sheridan Le Fanu, Elizabeth Gaskell, H. Rider Haggard, Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, Richard Laymon, Florence Marryat, Charles Robert Maturin, Robert McCammon, Richard Montanari, Joyce Porter, Alexander Pushkin, Ann Radcliffe, Clara Reeve, John Ridley, Rafael Sabatini, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Karin Slaughter, Aleksandr Soljenitsin, Bram Stoker, R.S. Surtees, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Nigel Tranter, Anthony Trollope, Frances Trollope, Elaine Viets, R. D. Wingfield, Mrs. Henry Wood, Charlotte M. Yonge (Shared favorites)

About meI have been collecting books all my life. Started witn the Ace paperback Edgar Rice Burroughs series. Finished my paper route, cut the neighbors grass, went to the variety store, gave him .35, .40 cents, and took my treasures home. Still got 'em. (along with every Country Joe and the Fish album.) The kids panic when I tell them, someday this will all be yours.

Started my first job as a page for The Cleveland Public Library. Fell in love with the place. Used to take my lunch and breaks up in the stacks. Row after row of old and sometime forgotten books. It was like being in a special church. I still remember the sights, the smells and how quiet it was.
I wish now that I had gone to college to study literature but life happened and I didn't. I'm not complaining, just wish I had more formal education.
I lead two mystery book groups, one for our public library and one for an independent bookstore.
I'm an aging vegan hippie who lives with my wife, two rescue dogs, and two rescue cats. I have moved to a log home in the middle of forty acres in a very rural area. I left the city and the century home behind. My books now live in the pole barn, but I visit them everyday. oh yea, Now have a new cat, move in under the porch. So thats now three cats. Don't tell my kids, cause they said one more animal and they will put me in a home.

I'm running out of space to put books! If only my wife would get rid of her royal doulton collection, I could put a nice set of Sir Walter Scott in their place.
Started another book group for my local library. It's called 'Gaslight Classics". So far we read, Fanny Burney, Anne Bronte, Sir Walter, Anthony Trollope. Future reads I hope to do, Gissing, Thackeray, Orczy. If anyone has a suggestion of a book to read for either the mystery or classics groups, let me know.
ps. make that four cats now. A wounded kitten made its way to the front door. After repeated trips to the vet and feeding her anitbiotics we were able to save her paw.

About my libraryLove Victorian Literature, 18th century literature, all types of literature. Read alot of mysteries, and really like discovering new mystery authors.

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Currently readingManfroné; or, The One-Handed Monk (Gothic Classics) by Mary Anne Radcliffe
Voracious by Alice Henderson
The Abbot & The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott