Member: CatyM

CollectionsYour library (1,945), Wishlist (144), To read (744), To re-read or re-attempt (62), Currently reading (4), Read but unowned (394), Favorites (217), Ebooks (141), In Omnibus Edition (29), Reference (73), Fiction (1,271), Non-Fiction (1,018), Biography & Memoir (79), Short Stories (30), Poetry (37), Plays (36), Christianity (627), History (620), Course books (79), Science (91), Children's & YA (91), Languages (52), All collections (2,510)

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TagsFiction (1,245), TBR (725), Christianity (531), History (448), @Second-hand (446), Literature (336), Crime/Mystery (275), @BookMooch (180), Church History (168), Mediaeval (163) — see all tags

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About meMid-30s postgrad student of church history. If I'm not reading, studying, working, eating or sleeping, I'm probably cooking, writing, hiking or at church.

About my libraryI've now listed all my books. (In theory, at least. They still keep turning up. Where do they hide? And are they holding my odd socks and biro caps hostage?)

Old books? Well, there'll be a good couple of thousand books borrowed from the library or weeded before 2007 that I haven't added, either because I don't remember them, or because they were of ephemeral interest. If I spot a book and think "I've read that!", and if having read it matters, then I may add it to my library. Likewise, while some of the books I've weeded since 2007 are still in my Read but Unowned collection, much (though not all) of the ephemera has gone; however, if it's a book that actually matters to me, it's still here.

My wishlist collection is hugely out of date: it's not been updated in a couple of years, other than to move new acquisitions to my library collection, and my actual wishlist is about three times the size of my wishlist collection.

Once upon a time, my tags and collections were beautifully organised. *reminisces* These days, I daren't look.

I've got a much-neglected thread in the 75 Books Challenge group, which should be more or less up to date with my 2013 reading even if it's highly unlikely to entertain anyone.

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, Agatha Christie, All Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, Almack's, Ancient History, Anglophiles, Archaeology, Author Theme Reads —show all groups, Barbara Pym, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Booker Prize, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Brits, Bug Collectors, Catholic Tradition, Combiners!, Cozy Mysteries, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Geeks who love the Classics, Girlybooks, Gothic Literature, Graduate Students, His Wondrous Works to Behold, Historical Fiction, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, History Fans, History: On learning from and writing history, Inklings, Lingua Latina, Loitering with Intent, Medieval Europe, Monthly Author Reads, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), Ngaio Marsh Appreciation Society, Old Mystery & Detective Club, Orange January/July, ReadaThing, Reading Globally, Science!, Talking Piffle, The 11 in 11 Category Challenge, The Brontës, The Drones Club (all things P.G. Wodehouse), The Prizes, Trollope lovers unite or fight, What Are You Reading Now?, What the Dickens...?, Women of Mystery

Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Margery Allingham, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Edmund Crispin, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eamon Duffy, Richard Fortey, Helene Hanff, Georgette Heyer, Victor Hugo, C. S. Lewis, Ngaio Marsh, Daphne du Maurier, A. A. Milne, Iain Pears, Jaroslav Pelikan, Adrian Plass, Terry Pratchett, Barbara Pym, Timothy Radcliffe, C. J. Sansom, Dorothy L. Sayers, William Shakespeare, D. E. Stevenson, John R. W. Stott, Josephine Tey, A. W. Tozer, Anthony Trollope, Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse, N. T. Wright, Tom Wright, Pope Benedict XVI (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresBritish Museum - Bookshop, Dartmoor Bookshop, Ken Spelman Rare Books & Manuscripts, Minster Gate Bookshop, The British Red Cross Bookshop, Waterstone's Gower Street, Waterstone's Piccadilly, Waterstone's Plymouth, Waterstone's Plymouth

Favorite librariesBritish Library, Central Library, Plymouth, Plympton Library, Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant - University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Lampeter Campus Main Library, The Charles Seale-Hayne Library, University of Plymouth

Other favoritesThe British Museum

Favorite publishersCanongate Books, Yale University Press

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Real nameCatherine Stead

LocationUK

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceOct 18, 2007

Currently readingThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Red Classics) by G. K. Chesterton
The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Illustrissimi by Pope John Paul I