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Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester
The Sea Warriors by Richard Woodman
Horn Crown by Andre Norton
Intermediate accounting, standard volume by Harry Simons
Lake Superior Circle Tour Travel Guide: Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, 1996/97 by Jack Mallon
Survival (Species Imperative #1) by Julie E. Czerneda
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Member: jowo
Library3,384 books — see library
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Tagsbaseball (1,277), fiction (636), joan (630), reference (493), minor league (462), history (370), science fiction (330), midwest league (278), yearbook (276), statistics (251) — see all tags
GroupsHMS Surprise, SABR Members, Say Yes to Michigan, Too Obscure
Favorite authorsJohn Brunner, C.J. Cherryh, E. E. Cummings, David Drake, Bill James, Peter Morris, Patrick O'Brian, Tim O'Brien, Mark L. Thompson, John Varley, Richard Woodman (Shared favorites)
About me Prone to enthusiasms....
I grew up in Kalamazoo, am a Vietnam vet, graduated from Macalester College, and have spent my adult life as a government bureaucrat. I've lived in our small town for nearly two decades. I'm the author/webmaster of A Fan's Guide to the Midwest League, which gets more or less daily maintenance, and the keeper of A Dabbler's Journal, to which I occasionally post stuff.
The photograph? The mysterious cairn below Empire Bluff @ Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.
About my library There's a ton (possibly literally) of baseball reference material, many books devoted to Great Lakes history and tourism, computer books in various flavors, and a lot of science fiction. There are remnants of what once were fairly serious railroadiana and bicycling bookshelves. And I collect novels that resemble the Horatio Hornblower series. I tend to buy heavily on specific topics as things strike my fancy. Those infatuations, too, show here.
About twenty percent of these are Joan's (hers run to nature guides, mysteries, Tom Clancy-like books, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Feynman; they are tagged Joan). I inherited some of my parents' books; those have Mom in the tags. Likewise, a few of my sister's have sneaked in (labeled Debbie) and one or two of m' brother's (Richard). While there's some system to my tags, I'd never be mistaken for a systematic tagger.
My book count peaked at 3,414 entries on August 22, 2008, and was briefly the 506th largest library on LT. I'm aging, and the house is small, so I've taken to selling books on eBay and Amazon. The decline resulting from those sales should outpace any purchases I'll make over the next few years.
Homepagehttp://mwlguide.com
Real nameJoel Dinda
LocationMulliken, Michigan
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posted by rocketjk at 7:04 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2008
posted by donkelly68 at 12:13 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2008
Thanks for the connect! Kent Mathewson was a friend of mine during the time he and his wife lived in Austin.
The Regionalist Papers remain one of the benchmark writings on Regional Planning in the United States.
I am ready for the baseball season! Cheers! -- Don Kelly
posted by donkelly68 at 4:37 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2008
In your list of Nautical fiction authors, I miss the names of Isaac Biddlecomb (James L. Nelson) and Alan Lewrie (Dewey Lambdin), but I assume that's because you got tired of typing :-) Also, Bernard Cornwell, although he writes more often of foot soldiers (Richard Sharpe / Sharpe's Rifles) has also written a couple of Sharpe novels with a nautical bias: "Sharpe's Trafalgar" and "Sharpe's Devil" I also have one novel by V. A. Stuart featuring Philip Horatio Hazard, called "Hazard's Command" I read it way back in 1987, but can't recall much about it. It was Vol. Three in the series.
-- Dick Vile, in Dexter, MI USA
posted by hashiru at 7:16 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2008