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Ruby

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Multnomah County Library

Favorite books and authors

I just read Manstealing for Fat Girls by Michelle Embree and loved it! Some of my old favorites are:

• the Carlos Tejada series (mysteries set in 1940s Spain) by Rebecca Pawel
• Greg Rucka's Queen & Country comics
• anything by John Le Carre, Raymond Chandler, Robert Hellenga, Amanda Cross, Margaret Atwood, or Julian Rathbone.

But that's just fiction -- I also love to read nonfiction, and some of my recent favorites are:

• The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian Fagan
• Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Lyndall Gordon
• The World of the Kalapuya: A Native People of Northwestern Oregon, by Judy Rycraft Juntunen et al.
• Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, by Melanie Rehak
• Making Stuff and Doing Things: A Collection of DIY Guides to Doing Just About Everything, by Kyle Bravo.

Favorite websites

• Library Thing — organize your books, and share your library with other people!
• Word on the Street — an exhibit of broadsides (street posters) from 17th to early 20th century Scotland
• Sold in Oregon — an exhibit of Oregon trademark images and product packaging, from the Oregon State Library
• Zines: Multnomah County Library
— info about zines at Multnomah County Library, including lots of free events for zinesters and zine readers!

About me
I love being a librarian — one thing I like to say about my job is that libraries are about sharing, and it's great to be able to share information using L-net and chat!