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About meI'm a lifelong bookaholic and blog at www.booksplease.org mainly about the books I read, but also about other things that interest me. I trained and worked for a while as a librarian in a local history library and then as a cataloguer. More recently I've worked in local government.

About my libraryI'm slowly cataloguing my books and am also including my husband's books. I still have some books from my childhood and some books that belonged to both my parents and my husband's parents. Most of them are fiction - classics and contemporary and some science fiction. Non-fiction is a mixed bag, inclduing books on religion, philosophy, history, biography and autobiography, cookery, gardening, yoga, language, travel and nature books. I've also started to add library books and books borrowed from friends as a record of books that I've read.

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Hi Margaret

Thanks for adding me to your 'interesting libraries'. I'm just checking out your book collection to see if there's any books I'm missing that I should have!

Michaela

posted by Fluffyblue at 6:10 pm (EST) on Jul 11, 2009

I haven't got or read Our Longest Days yet. I'm also tempted by the reprints of the original MassObs books from wartime and just post-war, but they're quite expensive and I want all of them! As a Mass Observer myself it's very interesting to see (we don't get to write diaries, though, just answer questions every 6 months)

The 70s book will def be one of my books of the year, although The Stories Of English, which I've just read and reviewed on my LiveJournal, was wonderful too.

posted by LyzzyBee at 12:14 pm (EST) on May 25, 2009

Read and reviewed - loved it. Didn't like my main April book nearly as much (the year of no money in tokyo) but this I thought was excellent. How are you doing with it?

posted by LyzzyBee at 4:22 pm (EST) on May 19, 2009

I'm about 2/3 of the way through it now (which is good, as my bonus batch book from March has arrived too!) - maybe reading it a bit more quickly than I would normally choose to, but plenty of time for re-reading at a later date! Have you got to it yet yourself?

posted by LyzzyBee at 5:41 am (EST) on May 11, 2009

I have started When The Lights Went Out and it's good stuff so far - I like that the author looks at comments on events from books at the time and the biographies of the people involved, and actually visits some of them too. Hope you enjoy!

posted by LyzzyBee at 2:06 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009

I liked BODY SURFING, but had mixed feelings about the ending. I like a solid ending and this book didn't prove that for me.

Thanks for the add. :)

posted by judithkaye at 10:37 am (EST) on May 16, 2008

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