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Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen

Hard Times (Norton Critical Editions) by Charles Dickens

Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters by Erica Wagner

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Tagswishlist (86), children's books (74), biography (54), domestic fiction (49), mysteries (35), Sylvia (32), Muriels (31), short stories (25), Virago (24) — see all tags

Groups20th Century British Realism, 50 Book Challenge, Awful Lit., British & Irish Crime Fiction, BritWit, Charity Shop Swap - UK, Children's Literature, Graham Greene, King's Dear Constant Readers, Loitering with Intent — show all groups

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Anita Brookner, Lewis Carroll, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Comyns, Jennifer Dawson, J. P. Donleavy, Isobel English, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Penelope Fitzgerald, Janet Frame, Stella Gibbons, Graham Greene, Olivia Manning, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Barbara Pym, Saki, Muriel Spark, Dorothea Tanning, Elizabeth Taylor, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, E. B. White, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)

About me I like books. All kinds. Biographies. Cookbooks. Children's books. First edition books. I like Norton Critical Editions. I like Virago Press. I would marry Virago Press if I could. Except I can't. Because I'm already married.

Books I've read for 2008 (so far):
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (Jared Cade)
A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie)
The Rules of Engagement (Anita Brookner)
Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's (Barbara Comyns)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
My Next Bride (Kay Boyle)
Open to the Public (Muriel Spark)
The Juniper Tree (Barbara Comyns)
Hospital Wedding (Jennifer Dawson)
Sisters by a River (Barbara Comyns)
Mr. Fox (Barbara Comyns)
Who was Changed and Who was Dead (Barbara Comyns)
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Jennifer Lynch)
Salem's Lot (Stephen King)
The Skin Chairs (Barbara Comyns)
House of Dolls (Barbara Comyns)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay)
The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington)
Between Lives (Dorothea Tanning)
Mad Puppetstown (Molly Keane)
A Touch of Mistletoe (Barbara Comyns)
Palladian (Elizabeth Taylor)
Chasm: A Weekend (Dorothea Tanning)
The Hundred Dresses (Eleanor Estes)
Emily the Traveling Guinea Pig (Emma Smith)
The Curate's Wife (E. H. Young)
Scented Gardens for the Blind (Janet Frame)
The Bookshop (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Carpathians (Janet Frame)
Owls Do Cry (Janet Frame)
Living in the Maniototo (Janet Frame)
Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
The Lagoon and Other Stories (Janet Frame)
The Lost Flower Children (Janet Taylor Lisle)
State of Siege (Janet Frame)
The Lifted Veil (George Eliot)
Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

About my library Most of the novels I own/read are by British authors, particularly women writers. Most of my non-fiction books are biographies and criticism. I'm particularly interested in the silent film era and am currently trying to add books about this topic to my collection.

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Member sinceApr 4, 2007

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Hello Muriel,
I see you are the only person on LT who owns a copy of Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp. Lucky you! It is on my wish list, and it seems to be a very difficult title to come across.
Happy reading and happy hunting for Viragos!!
Paola :-))

posted by aluvalibri at 8:10 am (EST) on May 28, 2008

I see that you have a copy of "Everything Smelt of Kippers". Is it as funny as the title implies?
Thanks for assuaging my curiosity,
wunderkind

posted by wunderkind at 1:36 am (EST) on Apr 23, 2008

Ahh, bookstores. My one downfall. The chains (Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million) are obviously the biggest draw in town but there are two used bookstores that I frequent. Alexander Books is the best of the two, less on the crappy romances and more literary minded than most. Then there's The Book Rack which is good in terms of children's and more popular fiction. The public library is also quite good, anything they don't have they can interlibrary loan for you and I find that I usually get copies of whatever I have requested within a week. There are also the two college bookstores (University Bookstore and Follett's) but those, for the most part, focus simply on college texts aside from the usual best sellers. Hope this helps!

posted by connor_chauveaux at 8:53 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2008

Your reviews are stupendous.

posted by wunderkind at 5:22 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008

That's fascinating about Jennifer Dawson- never realised she had written so much. Must look into those other ones, and add them to my list of 5 million other books to read. (slight exaggeration only)

Thanks for educating me!

Cheers

Sue

posted by thewordygecko at 7:41 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2008

Thanks for your friend invitation! We share several interesting books, including those by Barbara Pym, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Ursula Parrott! See you in the Persephone and Virago groups!

posted by marise at 1:49 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2008

Hello Dame Muriel,

Thank you for your invitation to be your friend. Looking through our shared books, I noticed The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson- it's been a while since I read that one. Not a novel you hear much about, but an interesting one. What did you think of it?

Cheers

Sue

posted by thewordygecko at 6:36 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008

Hello,
I'm trying to join Loitering With Intent, although I haven't shown up as a member for some reason. And I wrote a New Topic remark (about The Comforters) as well, which I'm not sure why it's not appearing, either...maybe LT is too busy right now, a Sunday evening.

posted by SaintSunniva at 9:12 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2008

Hi DameMuriel,

Thanks for inviting me to the group. Look forward to joining in to discussions.

Sue

posted by thewordygecko at 8:05 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2007

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