Member: Canadian_Down_Under

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About meI am originally from Canada (Ottawa) but moved to Australia in 1996 to marry my wonderful husband, Graeme. We live in country Victoria with our two cats, Hugo and Kasper.

About my libraryI love books. I love the look of them, the feel of them, even the smell of them. So despite my Kindle, I find myself unable to stop collecting the real things.

The books I have included in my library are books that I love, books that I own and books that I want to read. I have not included hundreds of trashy books I read, mostly in my youth, although some of the more memorable ones have been added.

My reading taste tends toward history, biographies, sociology and well written fiction.

My rating system:

* Frightfully bad.
** Sorry I bothered.
*** Enjoyed but did not love it. Might recommend it to a friend.
**** Loved it. Would recommend freely to friends.
***** An all-time favourite. Tell friends they should read it.

My Favourite reads from 2011:

A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Backlash by Susan Faludi
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

My favourite reads from 2012:

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) by Jerome K. Jerome
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
The Bad Seed by William March
The Absolutist by John Boyne
Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
John Adams by David McCullough
So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme & the Murder That Shocked the World by Peter Graham

My Favourite Reads from 2013:

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity...we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.”
― A. E. Newton

Groups50-Something Library Thingers, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Australian LibraryThingers, Booker Prize, Canadian Bookworms, French Connection, Language, Let's Talk Religion, Non-Fiction Readers —show all groups, Pro and Con, Progressive & Liberal!, Reading Globally, Vegetarians and vegans, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Bill Bryson, Noam Chomsky, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jasper Fforde, Ken Follett, Stephen Fry, Elizabeth Gaskell, Amitav Ghosh, Ernest Hemingway, Patricia Highsmith, Michael Moore, David Sedaris, Mark Twain, Minette Walters, Sarah Waters, Alison Weir, Edith Wharton, P. G. Wodehouse, Herman Wouk (Shared favorites)

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Favorite librariesGoldfields Libraries - Bendigo

Homepagehttp://www.strikingwood.com.au

Real nameJan

LocationStrathfieldsaye, VIC, Australia

Account typepublic, lifetime

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http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Canadian_Down_Under (library)

Member sinceAug 2, 2011

Currently readingFeeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns
Flute (Yehudi Menuhin Music Gdes.) by James Galway
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, 2nd Edition by Michael Miller
Word Painting: A Guide to Write More Descriptively by Rebecca McClanahan
Solo Guitar Playing Volume 1 by Frederick Noad
Pre-Calculus Demystified by Rhonda Huettenmueller
Ten Days to Self-Esteem by David D. Burns
Top Register Studies for Flute by Thomas J. Filas
Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (Book CD set) by Kenny Werner
44 Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street Series, Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
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