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Doorstop fantasy only. If it does not have a map I am not interested.

Reads too closely, argues in margins, teaches eighteenth-century prose to people who would rather be elsewhere. Currently working through everything I pretended to have read in 2011.

Life is short and the pile is long. I stop, and I say why.

Pencil, ruler, sticky tabs in four colours. I have a system and it is not up for discussion.

Thirty-one years behind a school library desk, now reading whatever I like without having to justify it on a form. I keep a card index of everything I finish, which my daughter finds hilarious.

I write about books for a small newsletter nobody asked for. Nonfiction, mostly. Memoir when it earns it.

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

sf, cognitive science, anything with a decent index

Yes, that is my real first name. No, I have not read all of them.