so, i'll tell you something funny about me. not ha-ha funny, just odd funny.

i used to be a librarian. i started as a children's librarian and when i moved to the city, i also moved to the rare books department. i've read stories, performed plays, mastered the dewy decimal system (yes, i am old), restored and preserved and photographed countless manuscripts (including an original shakespeare we kept in a cage). i now work as a computer programmer but i long for the solace, and solitude, of the rare books room.

by anecdotal count, i believe i have read over 1500 books for fun. you know, shits and grins. the halibut. i own many and have lost and given away even more. when i joined the book exchange, my husband asked me, "what do you think the odds are of you getting a book you haven't read?" i thought, pretty good, considering how many millions of books there are out there already and new ones coming around every day.

and, LOW AND BEHOLD, my fellow redditor has delivered- sending me not one, but TWO books i have never read!

many thanks, skankinj, from one bookworm to another.

i can't wait to try out "miss peregrine's home for peculiar children" (which i continue to be, despite my advancing age) and "the night circus"!