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Luminous Art: Hanukkah Menorahs of The Jewish Museum by Susan L. Braunstein
Tamara de Lempicka by Alain Blondel
Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960 by Ross Wetzsteon
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter
Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) by Morihiro Ogawa
Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection by Toby Faber
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
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Favorite authorsStephen E. Ambrose, Mark Bittman, Bill Bryson, Andrei Cherny, Bernard Cornwell, Jonathan Fenby, David Hackett Fischer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pete Hamill, Harold Holzer, Susan Jacoby, Lisa Jardine, Ross King, Erik Larson, John McPhee, Lynne Olson, Ruth Reichl, N. A. M. Rodger, Russell Shorto, Dava Sobel (Shared favorites)
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Favorite librariesNew York Society Library, The Morgan Library & Museum
About meI read, there for I am. A life without books is just unthinkable.
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About my libraryMy library includes books about New York City (the center of the known intelligent universe IMHO), history of technology, railroads, maritime history, the Napoleanic Wars and everyone's favorite subject - food. I started adding art monographs to my library a few years ago for the joy of it and the fact I'll never be hanging any Rothko's or Sorolla's on my wall. I've bought a few books from Ursus Books in NY, who specialize in art books and prints, and the rest on-line from Amazon, Abebooks, Buy.com and a few other online sellers. Its amazing to me how the value of some of these books has gone up over the last few years. Anyway my focus is on figurative painters, Impressionism, the early Modernists and Abstract Expressionism.
So, slowly but steadily my books are taking over more and more space in my modest apartment. Getting close to buying another bookshelf but for me that's like putting another lane on a crowded highway. Traffic just expands to take over the available space. It's the same with books and bookshelves I think. To keep things from getting out of hand I do recycle much of my fiction reading at the Strand on Broadway. A few keepers but I've always been more attached to my non-fiction.
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Currently readingCommon Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Miro by Jacques Dupin
Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships by Stephen Fox
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
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posted by muddypaws845 at 3:05 pm (EST) on Apr 13, 2009
BTW--Volney passed through NYC in 1798 during his return from the American west. He had dinner there with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton. Also, there's a famous apartment building in NYC named The Volney. Dorthy Parker died there (search Google). Also, just east of Buffalo you can find the small town of Volney, NY. I presume it's named after him.
posted by ThomasCWilliams at 11:54 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2009
posted by Garp83 at 9:17 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2009
posted by stellarexplorer at 12:37 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2008
I wish LT had some way to make a "wish list" because I don't want to catalog anything I don't have in my library, yet there are certain books I really want to read. I guess I'll go to amazon.com & add it to my wish list there.
posted by MtnSk8tr at 1:05 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2008
We still have quite a few climbing books to be cataloged, esp. the technical/ instructional ones, and guidebooks (a Sisyphean task, at best!). I really enjoy seeing what books others are cataloging.
posted by MtnSk8tr at 11:47 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2008