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Member: CatyM

CollectionsYour library (1,546), Wishlist (452), Currently reading (12), To read (326), Read but unowned (252), Favorites (199), Ebooks (33), Read Aeons Ago (38), Reference (46), Fiction (1,388), Biography & Memoir (44), Poetry (27), Plays (25), Christianity (353), History (467), To and Fro (8), All collections (2,247)

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Groups1010 Category Challenge, 18th-19th Century Britain, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Agatha Christie, All Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, Almack's, Alphabet Challenges, Ancient History, Barbara Pym Fan Club, BBC Radio 3 Listeners — show all groups , BookMooching, Christianity, Cozy Mysteries, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, English History - Tudor through Edwardian, Geeks who love the Classics, Graduate Students, Group Reads - Literature, His Wondrous Works to Behold, Historical Fiction, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, I Love Jane Austen, Medieval Europe, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), Reformation Historians, Renaissance Europe, The Brontës, The Drones Club (all things P.G. Wodehouse), Trollope lovers unite or fight, Virago Modern Classics, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsMargery Allingham, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Agatha Christie, Nicola Cornick, Jennifer Crusie, John Donne, Eamon Duffy, Maria Edgeworth, Richard Fortey, Michael Green, Helene Hanff, Georgette Heyer, W.G. Hoskins, Victor Hugo, C. S. Lewis, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Ngaio Marsh, Daphne Du Maurier, Iain Pears, Adrian Plass, Terry Pratchett, Barbara Pym, Julia Quinn, C. J. Sansom, Dorothy L. Sayers, Alexander McCall Smith, John R. W. Stott, Anthony Trollope, P. G. Wodehouse, N. T. Wright, Philip Yancey (Shared favorites)

About meI'm 31, British and a part-time postgrad student. I like to cook and write as well as read, and I'm keen on music and walking.

I usually have at least a dozen books on the go, and my Currently Reading tag is usually pretty up-to-date. If your timing is just right, you may even be fortunate enough to spot some light fiction and fluff novels flitting around in there - right before they hurtle at astonishing speed towards completion and the 2009 tag, leaving Dickens and Trollope, several textbooks and the Sermons of John Donne trailing in their wake.

Reading Challenges
I've completed the 999 Challenge. Hooray!
I'm participating in the 75 Book Challenge for 2009 (January-April thread, May-September thread, October-December thread). I'm also doing an ABC Challenge and I've made an early start on my 1010 Category Challenge.

About my libraryMuch as I'd like to think I've listed every book I own, I keep finding stray ones that I've missed. I'd love to know where they hide: wherever it is, I'm beginning to suspect they're holding my odd socks and biro caps hostage there. Or perhaps I have a Book Fairy. Still, in theory all my books are now listed.

Some books are recreational reading, some are for preaching (I'm a Methodist lay preacher - or at least I will be very soon, if I've passed my exams) and others are for study. My library is stuffed with the classic literature, history and light fiction that makes up most of my reading. I like a good mystery - especially from the golden age - and the occasional romance (but if I'm reading a lot of romance it's not good: I only do that when I'm VERY stressed!) There's a little bit of biography and science in there somewhere, a hefty stack of theology and Christian spirituality, and the odd book on music, dialect, art or fashion. Plus, I used to teach history, and I still have some books left over from then.

Books tagged TBR are books I own and have yet to read; in theory, this should be identical to my To Read Collection. The total has gone up rather a lot since I joined LT, and continues to go up at an alarming rate (thanks very much, BookMooch!); it's just hit 300 for the first time ever and shows no sign of stopping.

I've moved all the books in my catalogue which I don't own to the Read but Unowned collection. Some of these are books I've given away, some are library books or books I've borrowed from friends and family. I've also added a stack of textbooks that I know I read when I was at university because even now, ten years later, I've still got the notes in a file somewhere.

It's only in the last couple of years that I've started keeping records of what I read, so there are an awful lot of books that I read in the past that I haven't been able to add - a good couple of thousand, including an awful lot of library books and anything that got weeded before 2007. If I spot a book and think "I've read that!", I often add it to my library.

I've also finally managed to add my wishlist, which is expanding even faster than the TBR.

Oh, and books in my BookMooch inventory are tagged as @Moochable.

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Currently readingThe Sermons of John Donne by John Donne
Ukridge by P.G. Wodehouse
Grace - Amazing Grace by Brian H Edwards
Framley Parsonage (English Library) by Anthony Trollope
Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802 by James Woodforde
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions / Death's Duel (Vintage Spiritual Classics) by John Donne
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
The Compleat Rifleman Harris: The Adventures of a Soldier of the 95th (Rifles) During the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars by Benjamin Harris
Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits by Jack Murnighan
History of the World in 10½ Chapters (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
The Double and The Gambler (Everyman's Library) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Victorian Governess by Kathryn Hughes
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