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Understanding the Neolithic by Julian Thomas
Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle by Tom Sharpe
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (The Penguin American Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers - with an introduction by John Masefield by Alexander Young
Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) by Stella Gibbons
Black Marina by Emma Tennant
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Favorite authorsKate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, John Banville, Jonathan Coe, J. M. Coetzee, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Andreï Makine, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anthony Trollope, Anne Tyler (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAthena's Boekhandel van der Velde, Museumwinkel Groninger Museum
About meI have been an avid reader since age six. Most other women find it hard to desist from buying clothes and shoes, I can't resist buying books. Whenever I travel somewhere by train (even if is's just the ten minute commute to work) I have to have a book with me. My house is slowly filling up with bookcases; they are in nearly every room now and I love it.
Apart from reading I also love long distance running, classical music, traveling to weird countries and mountain hiking. I earn my living as a lawyer (my Eng lit degree proved to be pretty useless on the job market), but as soon as I win those couple of millions in the lottery I am going to quit at once and really dig into my huge tbr pile.
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About my libraryI read mostly English literature, but I am interested in science, history, archaeology and philosophy, too, and I also like literature in translation.
At the moment I am still in the process of adding books. Most books I have read and own have been catalogued, excepting the crime and mystery novels that I read purely for relaxation and forget about as soon I have finished them. I have also decided (for the time being) not to add all those books I did not really like that much.
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Currently readingIn Search of Lost Time: Vol. 1 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg
How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
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I'm a few chapters in and so far it's a very slow and difficult read. I was expecting romance and adventure and strife but for now it just sort of drags on...
posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 10:09 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2009
Is The Hunger Games really that good? I keep on seeing consistently good reviews for it
PS. I'm beginning to think my English degree is useless too. I should've just opted for a 9 to 5 job at an office or something.
Yuliya
posted by Assumpta_Rainer at 11:03 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2009
Ik mis het oude Vredenburg ook wel, de noodoplossing is toch wat minder qua geluid, de concerten zijn wel top. Grappig, Vianen is wel een leuke plaats, heb er nog een blauwe maandag gewerkt. Ik ga je bibliotheek in de gaten houden. Die van mij vergt nog wat onderhoud, wordt aan gewerkt.
groeten,
Koen
posted by Koen1 at 12:44 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2009
Cheers
posted by paruline at 8:03 am (EST) on Oct 3, 2009
http://christophertusa.com/
Thanks,
Chris
posted by cmtusa at 9:58 pm (EST) on May 19, 2009
Thanks for th response, Tom
posted by homefield at 3:00 am (EST) on Apr 29, 2009
posted by Weirdbeard at 1:31 pm (EST) on Apr 28, 2009
Thank you for commenting on my blog. I left a reply there but also decided to post here. I'm so glad you liked The Idea of Perfection. It's on my 2008 top 5 list. I understand Grenville has a new book out, but I don't think it's available in the US ye (and I'm not sure about availability in Europe).
Happy New Year!
Laura
posted by lindsacl at 8:03 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2008
Michael
posted by michaelbartley at 1:17 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2008
Dank je, insgelijks. Ik ben nog steeds aan het invoeren, een leuk en niet leuk werkje.
Henk
posted by HenkEllermann at 11:21 am (EST) on Nov 18, 2008
Terri
posted by teelgee at 1:21 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008
Ik heb Nederlands eenmal gestudeerd maar nu alle vergeten!
I really shouldn't do that, it hurts me although it probably makes you chuckle! It makes me despair (lightly) - I once read Couperus in the original! I have the English translation of Het stille Kracht lined up for a reread next year.
Lovely meeting you in blog/librarything land and thanks for your kind comments re the blog.
LizzySiddal
posted by LizzySiddal at 1:45 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2008
I am sure that you will enjoy Antal Szerb's novel Journey by Moonlight - it really is very good.
Tom
posted by homefield at 2:55 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2008