Member: Eramirez156

CollectionsJazz Recordings (7), Your library (1,828), Chess DVD/CD Roms (20), Opera CDs/DVDs (560), Currently listening (1), Opera Programs (48), TV Series DVD (1), Orchestral CDs (4), All collections (2,468)

Reviews10 reviews

TagsOpera CD (552), chess (476), Opera (199), music (188), poetry (163), Latin American Literature (134), mexico (134), cookbook (107), Verdi (99), record collecting (86) — see all tags

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About my library"Libraries, much like life itself, are a work in eternal mutation" - Ilan Stavans

“My library is not a single beast but a composite of many others, a fantastic animal made up of the several libraries built and then abandoned, over and over again, throughout my life. I can’t remember a time in which I didn’t have a library of some sort. The present one is a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time. The scribbles on the margins, the occasional date on the flyleaf, the faded bus ticket marking a page for a reason today mysterious, all try to remind me of who I was then. For the most part, they fail. My memory is less interested in me than in my books, and I find it easier to remember the story read once than the young man who then read it.”
-Alberto Manguel

GroupsBooks on Books, Chess, Chicagoans, Cookbookers, Dalkey Archive, Everything and Nothing, Literatura en Espanol, Opera, or Nobody Knows the Traubel I've Seen, Proust, South American Fiction-Argentine Writers —show all groups, The Globe

Favorite authorsWalter Benjamin, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Haruki Murakami, Octavio Paz, Alfonso Reyes, Enrique Vila-Matas (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstores57th Street Books, Amaranth Books, Casa del Libro - Gran Vía, City Lights Books, Downtown Books, Europa Books, O'Gara and Wilson, Booksellers, Open Books, Powell's - Hyde Park, Powell's - Lakeview, Renaissance Book Shop, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, The Armadillo's Pillow, Tres Americas Books, Inc.

Other favoritesPrinters Row Lit Fest, Newberry Library Book Fair

Homepagehttp://chessreader.blogspot.com/

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EmailEramire156gmail.com

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Member sinceSep 15, 2005