Member: FemmeNoiresque

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About meHi all!
I'm an Australian girl. Please drop me a line, with any comments and recs. :)

About my libraryMy 75 in 2012 Challenge Thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/129773
My 12 in 12 Challenge Thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/129783

GroupsAmazon's Kindle, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, ARC Junkies, Audiobooks, Australian LibraryThingers, Barbara Pym, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Book of the month club, BookCrossing Australia! —show all groups, Byzantinistik, Catholic Tradition, Club Read 2011, Cozy Mysteries, Eastern European Literature, Fairy Tale Readers, Fairy Tales Retold, Fans of Russian authors, Fine Press Forum, Folio Society devotees, friends of Maugham, Girlybooks, Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction, Historical Mysteries, Hobnob with Authors, Le Salon du peuple pour le peuple, New York Review Books, Persephone Readers, Radical History, Read YA Lit, Reading Globally, Short Stories, Sufism, The Chapel of the Abyss, The Globe, The Prizes, Virago Modern Classics, William Faulkner and his Literary Kin, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsSarah Addison Allen, Jalal al-Din Rumi, Francesca Lia Block, Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marguerite Duras, William Easterly, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Ivan Franko, Mary Gaitskill, Rumer Godden, Stephen Jay Gould, Kirsty Gunn, Robert Harris, E. J. Hobsbawm, Henrik Ibsen, Neil Jordan, James Joyce, Pauline Kael, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Carson McCullers, Vladimir Nabokov, Anaïs Nin, Flannery O'Connor, Yoko Ogawa, Michael Ondaatje, Barbara Pym, Terence Rattigan, Edward W. Said, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Sam Shepard, Donald Spoto, David Storey, Elizabeth Taylor, Leo Tolstoy, William Trevor, Sarah Waters, Frank Wedekind, Patrick White, Tennessee Williams, W. B. Yeats, Jack Zipes, Stefan Zweig (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresAbbey's Bookshop, Better Read Than Dead, Books Kinokuniya - Sydney, Constant Reader Bookshop, Dymocks - George St, Elizabeth's Bookshop (CBD), Gould's Book Arcade, Sappho Books

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Real nameHal

LocationSydney, Australia

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceJan 15, 2010

Currently readingThe Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature by Ilan Stavans
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't by Nate Silver