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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) by Walt Whitman
Ginger: My Story by Ginger Rogers
Love and Thunder: Plays by Women in the Reign of Queen Anne (Methuen New Theatrescripts)
Spain by Sacheverell Sitwell
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories (Mystery & Supernatural) by Marjorie Bowen
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About meMy husband calls me a bookaholic, and it's true. They are piled all over the house at the moment. My first degree was theatre studies and I am currently studying law as I need to feel I'm learning something all the time; a day where I manage to read something interesting isn't wasted.
Update: Got the law degree and am now relishing essay-free weekends which I want to use to try and get down that 'not read yet' tag - however, as I'm also buying books at my usual rate it seems to stay pretty constant. My ghost story addiction is growing and I feel a need to read every ghost story written before 1950, so this and a sudden gardening urge are currently filling the study gap.
About my libraryI generally don't like to read fiction by an author who is still alive, although there are exceptions (Umberto Eco is one of my favourites). I usually tend to live somewhere between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when I'm reading. I buy books (old and new) obsessively but feel it is a waste to read them immediately; they have to sit on the bookshelf waiting for the right time. Therefore, my library of unread books is huge.
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Currently readingTHE PRIVATE LETTERS OF PRINCESS LIEVEN TO PRINCE METTERNICH 1820-1826. by Peter (edited by). Quennell
All the fun's in how you say a thing : an explanation of meter and versification by Timothy Steele
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
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posted by ThomasCWilliams at 8:53 am (EST) on Apr 13, 2009
posted by JulieP at 10:22 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2009
by Henry Alfred Dixon
God made the world with its towering trees,
Majestic mountains and restless seas.
Then stopped and said, "It needs one more thing,
Someone to laugh and dance and sing.
To walk in the woods and gather flowers,
To commune with nature in quiet hours."
So God created little girls.
With laughing eyes and bouncing curls.
With joyful hearts and infectious smiles,
Enchanting ways and feminine wiles.
And when He'd completed the task He'd begun,
He was pleased and proud of the job He'd done.
For the world when seen through a little girl's eyes,
Greatly resembles His own paradise.
posted by theoldman at 12:05 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2009
writer I find interesting is Dan Simmons. Not sure if sci-fi
would interest you, but I'd recommend "Hyperion", (4 vols.)
He's also written some horror and hard boiled thrillers.
posted by tros at 9:09 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2008
....aren't they beautiful? lol The equivalent of one last hit of heroin before the lonely path ahead.....)
posted by LesMiserables at 7:59 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2007
Just wanted to say hello, seeing that I have a few things in common with you; OU graduate (Philosophy for me), Sir Walter Scott fan and finally a member of that select club of human beings who buy more books than they can ever hope to read!
Cheers
Steve
posted by LesMiserables at 7:58 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2007
Because you bought this book by Dahl, you went much higher in the list of members with my books. I do not desesperate seing you soon at the very top.
I hope your book contains the series called Switch Bitch, and especially The Big Switcheroo which is my favourite tale by Dahl. Tell me when you've read it!
Best wishes,
François
posted by Pepys at 10:27 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2007
oh, and I know you're in the UK so you might not have access to the same bookstores as here in the US...but I went to Barnes & Noble the other day & found a sensational Alcott omnibus edition: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksea... it's got a good collection of stories (four of which I've read in the other anthologies) & it's also got her later full-length Modern Mephistopheles novel. seems like a nice book.
posted by silverwraith at 3:27 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2007
Robert
posted by DoctorRobert at 5:33 am (EST) on Aug 18, 2007
I'm glad you enjoyed Zofloya. it's such a strange book--doesn't fit well into any category or era. I'd love to study more of Dacre's writing, but that's the only one of her novels in print or relatively affordable. (Valancourt Press has said they'd like to issue another of her novels in the next few years--have you found your way to Valancourt yet? if not then you must.)
no, I haven't read Melmoth yet. your summary sounds more interesting than the ones I read on amazon, so I'll have to look more closely. I haven't read Th Monk yet either.
posted by silverwraith at 12:19 am (EST) on Aug 9, 2007
I'm reading the Five Victorian Ghost Novels collection. right now it's "The Amber Witch." it's interesting--definitely has a Germanic flavour to the language, even when translated.
happy reading. :)
Silverwraith
posted by silverwraith at 1:35 am (EST) on Aug 8, 2007
I've only read one Ouida novel so far but I loved it. the characters were great--Victorian sensation at its finest. (I will warn you that her writing is dense with obscure references, so I'd definitely recommend an edition with footnotes.)
:)
Silverwraith
posted by silverwraith at 12:09 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2007
I wish I had as many Collins novels as you do--I've got like five more on my wishlist, last time I checked. but the two I'm most keen to get right now are Poor Miss Finch and the Dover collection of his Tales of Terror. hopefully for christmas this year...if I can hold out that long. hehe. I have Armadale but I haven't read it yet--I've had it for almost two years now, which is far too long. I should try & get to that one sooner. *eyes the bookshelves*
Charlotte Riddell...is that the same as Mrs J.H. Riddell? she's in my collection of Victorian ghost novels (short novels, rather). are you reading the Oxford collection edited by Michael Cox? that's also on my amazon wishlist. *grin*
if you don't mind me asking, which books did I inspire you to find? :)
Silverwraith
posted by silverwraith at 12:36 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2007
I agree that the old-school ghost stories are better than the newer ones. it's the language, I think--it's wonderful to get lost in the long paragraphs & semi-colons. but judging by your reaction to Wicked (which I haven't read), it sounds like you don't appreciate over-sexed novels...? I agree that it's annoying. I love vampire stories, but I rarely read modern-written vampire novels because they're crammed with needless verbal porn. blargh. what did authors do before they had superfluous sex? oh yeah, they wrote good stories. hmm... *wicked grin*
ok, so I'm biased. I just love Victorian lit. ;)
a friend recently gave me a collection of MR James & I loved it. have you ever read any of Mary Braddon's ghost stories? how about Louisa May Alcott's darker short fiction?
Silverwraith
posted by silverwraith at 12:58 am (EST) on Jul 19, 2007
I saw your name in the Turk's Head group. Although my English library on LT is very poor, I could see that we share a couple of books. We also share the fact that I don't either like to read fiction by an author who is still alive. And 17c.-19c. literature is really a whole world to be discovered.
I saw your comment on the Voyage to the Hebrides. Is it your Boswell favourite? I liked very much the London Journal. I've just finished the first part of the Life of Johnson, some passages of which I found interesting (but frankly some others really boring). Would you put the Voyage to the Hebrides on the top of these two other books?
Thanks for your reply.
François
posted by Pepys at 3:58 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2007
posted by zendo454 at 9:36 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2006