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Library628 books — see library

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Tagsnot read (130), science fiction (94), fantasy (73), classic (39), reading group (37), mrh (36), bh (30), humour (29), children's (27), religion (25) — see all tags

Groups50 Book Challenge, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Books Compared, Doctor Who, Duniverse, Early Reviewers, FantasyFans, Lawyers, Medieval Europe — show all groups

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Bill Bryson, Octavia E. Butler, Frank Herbert, John Irving, C. S. Lewis, Julian May, Anne McCaffrey, L.M. Montgomery, John Mortimer, Philip Pullman, Matt Ridley, Dan Simmons, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBorders - Stockport, Simply Books, The Bookshop, Marple, Waterstone's Manchester Deansgate, Waterstones Stockport

About me Live near Manchester in the UK. Love walking, family, friends, chocolate and of course books and am a member of a lively reading group (membership of which has broadened my reading habits - before those tended towards SF, fantasy and Arthurian epics).

Discovered this site thanks to the Guardian Wrap and Andrew Brown - what a brilliant idea for obsessive book lovers - also a good way to organise myself and also to learn from others' reading habits (and have a nosy at others' bookshelves - makes me realise that what I thought was a decent and diverse collection is actually quite puny!).

Welcome the "suggestions" feature. Would also welcome the development of a read but don't own option, as what I have read exceeds my libary (even if I wanted to and could afford to buy them all, there wouldn't be the space to store them) and would like to comment on and rate those books too!

About my library Eclectic and hectic - not really organised and short of room, although do try to put on bookshelves (and windowsills and anywhere else) in author order. As our family collection of books is fairly homogenous, I am including Mr Hamster's (MrH and Baby Hamster's (bh) books (hence, due to the latter, you will see Harry Potter on this catalogue at some stage!). Have added another tag to included books covered by reading group (reading group, natch).

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posted by margad at 1:48 am (EST) on Apr 6, 2007

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posted by rumar at 6:20 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2006

I finished "Hyperspace" last weekend, thank you for recommending it, can't say I understood more than the general drift but fascinating all the same except for the dreadful stink of the previous owner's stale cigarette smoke which emerged from its pages. Hoping to leave for Scotland at the beginning of next week, best wishes, Gibbon

posted by gibbon at 4:39 am (EST) on Apr 27, 2006

M Drabble's "Witch of Exmoor" regrettably a disappointment; I had forgotten why I disliked her previous books (must be at least 30 years since I read any) but it's because of her continual authorial intervention, digging you in the ribs to say "I'm here pulling the strings". It's almost as bad as having one of the characters say "Why, we might almost be characters in a novel"!
I've just ordered "Hyperspace", looking forward to taking it with me on a trip to Scotland at the beginning of May.
Regards, Gibbon

posted by gibbon at 5:43 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2006

Just got back from my watercolour class to find a nice copy of "The witch of Exmoor" waiting for me on the mat, all the way from Campbeltown. Looking forward to having it as a bedside book for a few days - definitely involves the real moor, thank you for your help. Also a packet of book stickers from BookCrossing, an alternative to dumping my weeded-out volumes on the local charity shop.

posted by gibbon at 12:30 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2006

Thanks so much for checking. I'm totally confused as this point, but maybe Alfred wanted it that way. I'll take another run at his books soon.

posted by greenery at 1:11 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2006

Just a note to say that I've been trying to sort through various editions of the walking books by Alfred Wainwright, and I'm wondering if you would be able to check something for me. You've got one of his books with the ISBN 0718140079 and the title Coast to Coast....
Amazon UK gives a slightly different title for that ISBN. Could you possibly verify your exact title and ISBN?
Here's the Amazon UK link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN...
If you have time to check, that would help me get Alfred sorted.

posted by greenery at 2:23 am (EST) on Feb 28, 2006

While poking about to prevent myself having to do the jobs I ought to do, I read your review of Lynn Truss' "Eats, shoots...". I haven't yet read that or her new book on etiquette. Although I taught a sort of English for some years I don't count myself a pedant, though (like Anne Fadiman & her family) I am a compulsive and automatic proof-reader which in these lax days gives me continual irritation. What I set out to say is that if you want an amusing book on etiquette nothing, in my opinion, comes up to "Miss Manners" (Julia Martin) for wit and practicality. My copy of her magnum opus is now spineless through 20 years of use as a bedside book and recipient of newspaper cuttings and I have given four away.

posted by stella at 12:33 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2006

Just read your review of "Brave New World"; our local co-op has installed loudspeakers outside playing loud Mozart and Tchaikovsky to disperse the local hoodie brigade who have obviously been conditioned not only by commercial TV but alas by BBC as well to distrust anything but the latest tuneless gargle. I believe that if the Co-op could give them electric shocks at the same time they would!
Gibbon, Bristol

posted by stella at 6:48 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2006

I wish you luck in finding a lending copy of "The witch in the wood"; ABE lists 43 copies world-wide, cheapest £13.02 in S Africa, dearest £450 in London. But while you are looking it might be worth keeping an eye open for White's other book which made up the original trilogy, "The ill-made knight" about Lancelot. I prefer them in this form to the re-writen trilogy.

posted by gibbon at 5:00 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2005

Another interesting thing about "The mists of Avalon", along with Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book" is that though by thoroughly American authors they don't put a foot wrong with the British scene or idiom. But I think Bradley wasn't the first to see Morgan le Fay in a sympathetic light - what about TH White's "The witch in the Wood"? Not the re-written version fom "The once and Future King" but the original, now rare, separate volume.

posted by gibbon at 7:07 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2005

Oooh sppoky, I was actually reading Rape of the Lock today, I was surprisingly shocked by my coloured coded note taking. It was the first thing we studied at A-level, my teacher said we'd do it first, not understand any of it, then return to it just before the exams and wonder what all the fuss was about. She was right.
We also did Return of the Native (which I hated) Sense & Sensibility, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and The Merchant's Tale
I finished my A-levels in '95, I'm not sure what JMB is so we can't have had whatever it is.

posted by bilblio at 4:49 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2005

Hi, I'm intrigued by you reading group, it looks like a decent selection of books.
We are very close to each other, and the books we have in common are some of my favourites.

posted by bilblio at 8:24 am (EST) on Sep 27, 2005

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