Lidlgoldstein

My library is really in two parts - my professional library and my non-professional one. I generally buy hardback books because I like to reread things. If I read a mystery writer, I read everything by them and own all books. Lately, I have been using an iPad and Kindle, and this is changing my library a bit, but I still make sure to have hard copies of books that are important to me.

I am an archaeologist and a university professor. Much of my library is anthropology and archaeology, especially U.S. My non-professional reading tends to mysteries, but only of a certain type. I love Rex Stout, Dashiel Hammet, John D MacDonald, as well as Patricia Cornwall, Marcia Muller, and Barbara Cleverly. I don't like mysteries where there is something kept from you that you need to know to solve the mystery.