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About My Library
Shared bfrank and edn: [collections:] Christmas, novels, family reading, pop-ups, ABC's. . . . [esp bfn] Americana, esp. regional history from 1930s on; contemporary poetry; reader response criticism; Edwin Way Teale, Harnett Kane, books that feel right in my hand. . . . [esp edn:] Rumer Godden, Tolstoy, Brontes, Alcott, dolls, childhood rdng . . . . [general:] literature, religion, history, biography, children's & adolescent literature, mythology, art, reference

just a word about some of the tags: fave=bfn favorites, books that I remember for engrossing reading experiences or books of poetry, art, and wisdom that I return to again and again: BenTen=models of their type, favorites that I recommend with a rating of 10+; edu.ex=excellent professional books for me as an educator, incl. textbooks and books about teaching and learning; cf4-14=childhood favorites from the time I was four to fourteen (most in my original copies)
About Me
bfrank=Professor emeritus, English and Education; editor, book reviewer; packrat, worrier, scribbler, Gator, Taurus, rat (in Chinese restaurants), "senior citizen," Campbellite, Democrat

edn=retired English teacher, full-time grandmother, eternal optimist, likes to sew, scribble, do projects; Virgo, dragon (in Chinese restaurants), "senior citizen" but 16-year-old at heart; Campbellite, Democrat

[My LT reviews, by the way, are hardly conventional reviews. They are comments on books that have been significant in my reading history. Some of them I have not reread for years and years. You might think of my reviews as notes for a reader's memoir.]
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