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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.
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 those books I did not really like that much.

Homepagehttp://annavangelderen.blogspot.com

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Real nameAnna van Gelderen

LocationGroningen, the Netherlands

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/AnnavanGelderen (profile)
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Member sinceMar 21, 2008

Currently readingCharlemagne: The Great Adventure by Derek Wilson
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
Delete This at Your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails by Neil Forsyth
A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
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The Staffordshire Hoard by Kevin Leahy

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Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell

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Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst

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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

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Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

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The Pathfinder by James Fennimore Cooper

Beste Anna,
Bedankt om even mijn helpdesk te zijn geweest. Zoals vermoed werd, had ik een Word-tekst ingevoegd als reactie op jouw blog en dat werkt niet. Maar toch heb ik maar met Firefox als browser mijn reactie geplaatst. Ik ondervond ook al problemen met het invoegen van "touchstones" in reacties op LT-groepen. Ik mailde hierover met LT en vroeg of een recente Windows-7 update en de 9-versie van IE daarmee te maken zouden kunnen hebben. Hier volgt het antwoord dat ik vandaag van LT kreeg.

Almost certainly. There are lots of touchstone bugs with IE9,
unfortunately; we're hoping to have them cleared up soon, but it's
been a tricky switchover to manage (IE made a ton of changes between
versions, most of which threw off parts of LT!)
Best,
Jeremy

Hopelijk kan dit voor andere LT-gebruikers wat verduidelijking brengen. Met Firefox had ik ook deze problemen niet langer.
Groeten,
Ronny

posted by rvdm61 at 12:03 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2011

Beste Anna,
Bedankt voor de tip. Mijn browser (IE 9) kan bezwaarlijk verouderd genoemd worden. Maar jouw reactie indachtig heb ik dan toch maar even geprobeerd met Firefox en dan lukt het best om een tekst in te geven... maar nu krijg ik almaar foutmeldingen dat mijn reactie niet langer dan 3000 tekens mag zijn... en dat zelfs wanneer ik amper een paar woorden probeer te versturen. Ik weet het niet meer.
Ronny

posted by rvdm61 at 10:24 am (EST) on Jun 26, 2011

Anna,
Het wil maar niet lukken om een bericht te plaatsen op jouw blog. Ik krijg almaar foutmeldingen dat mijn reactie te kort is. Blijkbaar doe ik iets fout... maar wat?
Ronny

posted by rvdm61 at 6:35 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2011

Beste Anna,
Ik las op jouw blog de recensie van Versluiering, het nieuwe boek van Monaldi & Sorti. Dit is wel niet hun vierde boek. Ze schreven intussen ook al twee (middelmatige) schelmenromans rond de figuur van Salai, een leerling van Da Vinci. Zelf heb ik hun eerste drie boeken (Imprimatur, Secretum en Veritas) met veel plezier gelezen en wacht nu op de volgende drie delen zodat de latijnse spreuk die met alle zes titels kan worden gevormd volledig wordt. Hun mix van spanning, historische feiten en culturele achtergronden komt pas tot zijn recht in het bestek van een paar honderd pagina's. Blijkbaar werkt dit niet met een dun boekje zoals Versluiering. Toch kijk ik er naar uit maar ik ben nog niet toegetreden tot het e-book tijdperk. Bestaat dit boekje ook in klassieke papieren vorm?
Groeten,
Ronny

posted by rvdm61 at 12:21 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2011

Beste Anna,
Ik volg al een tijdje jouw avontuurlijke boekenblog en wil jouw librarythingpagina graag toevoegen aan mijn "interessante bibliotheken". Ik benijd graag anderen om hun boekenverzameling maar nog meer benijd ik anderen om de tijd die zij klaarblijkelijk kunnen vrijmaken om zoveel te lezen.
Vriendelijke groeten,
Ronny

posted by rvdm61 at 1:34 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2011

I have not been very attentive to librarything lately. Have you finished Proust? Our post Proust group is reading W.G. Sebald now which has gotten me tangled up in German lit. Very interesting man. Thank you for your suggestions. I read "Beyond Sleep:" started "Sorrows of Belgium, which I need to get out of the library again; and I am looking to find "The Darkroom of Damocles." Reading about Sebald has also led to some other German authors I had never heard of: Robert Walser, Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, and Thomas Bernard. I would highly recommend reading Sebald. He is a post World War II generation writer trying to deal with the Holocaust without writing about it directly. Memory is a theme in common with Proust, which is why he landed on our post Proust reading list.

Happy holidays

posted by AliceKathleen at 2:16 am (EST) on Dec 1, 2010

Dank je, tot schrijvens, Yvonne

posted by yvoseule at 9:45 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2010

Reading Proust a second time, I was reading a different book that I had on the first go. I wish I had had the Karpeles book earlier. It really brings the book to life. I have also found looking at the musical and literary references reveals and even larger world. I can see how readers become addicted to Proust.

posted by AliceKathleen at 7:13 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2010

Have you finished Proust yet? Our Proust group only met every two weeks which stretched our reading out over a goodly period of time. A few of us attended the "Paintings in Proust" seminar sponsored by UC Berkeley last week. Robert Haas, poet, introduced Eric Karpeles. He was a most gracious man. Proust seems to be an endless world of study.

posted by AliceKathleen at 6:35 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2010

Hi Anna. I look forward to checking out your titles as I see our tastes overlap. Best wishes from Canada!

posted by tgamble54 at 6:17 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2010

Thank you for the recommendations. I managed to find "Beyond Sleep" through an interlibrary loan. I also found another book, "The Sorrow of Belgium." SF Museum of Modern Art just opened an exhibit of Luc Tuymans, a Belgian artist. You on the European continent are probably more aware of him than I. I took my niece who is planning to go the art school next fall to see it. Enjoy is not a good word, but I will use it: It was a good exhibit, and we enjoyed it.

posted by AliceKathleen at 11:05 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2010

Thank you for the recommendations. I found your comment about Dutch writing interesting.

posted by AliceKathleen at 11:43 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2010

You might also check out Eric Karples' website. He is painter.

posted by AliceKathleen at 9:38 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2010

Are there some dutch writers in translation, English, that you could recommend? It never occurred to me that there would be such an international group in the librarything. How naive. My husband and I are going to do the read tomorrow.

posted by AliceKathleen at 2:13 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2010

Which translations are reading? Our group got started when the new Penguin(?) came out -- the first volume translated my Lydia Davis. If you haven't read any of Davis' own stories, they are very good. She was featured in "The New Yorker" by James Wood. I highly recommend them.

posted by AliceKathleen at 2:03 am (EST) on Jan 21, 2010

I notice that you have embarked on Proust. I belong to a Proust group in San Francisco. Eric Karples visited our group when his book was first published. We've gone through the cycle twice. Next month there is a lecture by Karples at UC Berkeley, a concert, and a dinner at Chez Panise. Our group is now reading "post" Proust.

posted by AliceKathleen at 3:03 am (EST) on Jan 19, 2010

Hallo Anna,

heb net via vele verschillende wegen, de laatste weg was "Anna's leesreis" deze uiterst interessante bibliotheek ontdekt.We hebben op het ogenblik 191 boeken gemeen, toch ben je niet op de lijst met gemeenzame boeken te vinden. Mag ik je bibliotheek bij de interessante bibliotheken toevoegen?

Met vriendelijke groeten
Elisabeth

posted by circuskind at 1:00 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2010

Anna,

Still trying to negotiate my way around this website. Your library caught my eye - how are you finding Proust ? He still on my list of books to read.
Regards
Ian

posted by Ianaf at 8:31 am (EST) on Dec 21, 2009

Hi anna... Joined 2 days ago and busy loading. I see we have lots in common. How did you get that map to display

posted by bergs47 at 4:30 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2009

How did you find Lorna Doone?
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

Hi

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

Hi Anna,

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

Hi AnnavanGelderen, thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I noticed we seemed to have similar tastes in books. I am jealous of how many countries you've visited :)

Cheers

posted by paruline at 8:03 am (EST) on Oct 3, 2009

Noticed you liked The Virgin Suicides, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a dysfunctional family and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 9:58 pm (EST) on May 19, 2009

Well, I've been hesitating about reading when will there be good news, but perhaps I'll buy it now - its on a good discount at my local bookshop.

Thanks for th response, Tom

posted by homefield at 3:00 am (EST) on Apr 29, 2009

A degree that is useless on the job market is indeed a real degree...

posted by Weirdbeard at 1:31 pm (EST) on Apr 28, 2009

Anna,

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

Hi Anna, I am also a member of Libarything! I like it! I don't spend lots of time on these web sites, but it is fun to keep in contact with fellow readers. How is your running going? I am still running, not racing as much anymore, however there is New Year's Eve Run, that starts at midnight. It's only a 5K but a real fun way to start the new year. Happy Holidays
Michael

posted by michaelbartley at 1:17 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2008

Anna,

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

Hi Anna -- yes, I found your library and profile very interesting. Here's hoping for the lottery millions! I read your wonderful comment on my blog re: the Obama presidency (I get chills just writing that!). It's pretty amazing.

Terri

posted by teelgee at 1:21 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

Goede dag Anna!

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

Thank you for commenting on my blog www.acommonreader.org.uk

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

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