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Member: DerBuecherwurm

Library3,147 books — see library

Reviews49 reviews — see reviews

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Tagsregency romance (230), mystery (220), fiction (217), German (210), historical fiction (208), general cooking (154), historical romance (153), classic (132), British saga (129), contemporary fiction (65) — see all tags

GroupsBookMooching, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Californians Who LT, Combiners!, Common Knowledge and WikiThing, Early Reviewers, Historical Mysteries, Scandinavian detectives and thrillers

Favorite authorsJohn Banville, Wilhelm Busch, Michael Chabon, Charles Dickens, Diana Gabaldon, Kerry Greenwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erich Kästner, Charlotte Link, Loriot, Henning Mankell, Armistead Maupin, Ian McEwan, Ingrid Noll, Jacques Pepin, Philip Pullman, Laura Joh Rowland, Diane Setterfield, Alexander McCall Smith, Leonie Swann, P.G. Wodehouse, Markus Zusak (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBorders Books Milpitas, Half Price Books - Fremont, Schmorl & von Seefeld

About me I've been reading for so long, that I can't remember...I think radiation was still a fire in front of a cave. And the stone tablets were quite heavy to lug around...books are so much more convenient, although I draw the line at electronic books.

I found LibraryThing through a friend from Australia and it's a marvelous way to exchange what we are reading and to discover new authors.

The picture on the right is one of my silk paintings, a free interpretation of a Friedensreich Hundertwasser painting entitled "Tender Dinghi".

About my library My library is a reflection of years of reading, changing tastes and genres. My early love was for historical romance, specifically the regency period. But recent market changes have made it so I've really become unhappy and uninterested with the genre and I've branched out. I am now much happier with mysteries set in various international locales, hence I've begun reading the Kerry Greenwood series with the fabulous Phryne Fisher set in Melbourne and Laura Joh Rowland's Ichiro Sano series set in feudal Japan. I've also begun a Man Booker Prize "Bookerthon" and am slowly reading my way through the winners, the shortlisted and otherwise-listed authors.

Since my original language is German you'll find an odd selection of authors in my library. I usually prefer to read books in their original language, if possible, since much can be lost in translation and some authors are simply impossible to translate.

I've added a few of my favourite graphic novels to my catalogue from our vast collection of over 20,000 issues.

My library is organized by author (and then sorted by tags) and whenever there is a series, I've attempted to organize them in publication order or by series. Alas, my physical library is not so well organized at all; sometimes I manage to "bunch" authors in piles, but I've long since given up. My books are mostly triple-shelved and sometimes they are stacked on the floor until gravity takes over and they topple over. It sounds messy, but I know exactly where a book is.

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Real nameBritta

LocationSan Jose, CA

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Member sinceMay 18, 2007