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Tagsfiction (2,235), history (756), sf (668), crime (639), sociology (437), politics (387), bio (333), bio (auto) (302), psychology (289), short stories (284) — see all tags

GroupsAncient China, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Language, Rare, Old or Offbeat

About me couple of stodgy academics, one retired; old-fashioned intellectuals with special interest in East Asia
A statuette of a sitting cat with right forepaw in this position is used in Japan to mean "Open for business, please come in."

About my library books we acquired to read or to work on and never gave away or sold

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Member sinceOct 28, 2005

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Hi there! Just wanted to say a quick hello. I'm relatively new to LT and have just started posting my library. I'm up to 287 books, and so far you and I share 32. That's over 10% of my books so far. I'm having fun putting my library up here and corresponding with other LTers. Cheers from San Francisco!
Thanks for the tip. Although recommending Basel to someone from Zurich (technically, I am Bernese) is tricky ... I should probably update my profile text too. It has been there now ... for nearly two years?

Actually, I mostly stopped adding the German canon. Classic chicken and egg. Here's why: LT creates bad affinities (and thus recommendations), as it classifies German canon links as rare (which they unfortunately are and will remain in the LT universe). I get weird recommendations based on the fact that somebody else has the German canon in their catalogue. Shared educational background does not equal shared tastes (well, mostly).

A classic (Swiss) canon selection Die schwarze Spinne (The black spider) by Jeremias Gotthelf has currently 30 LT copies. It points to other works of the German canon. Instead of to its contemporary equivalents, The Fall of the House of Usher by EA Poe or Le horla by Guy de Maupassant (Maupassant at least points to Poe, who in turn is caged in by the English canon).
Thanks a ton for the help with the Japanese titled picture book! That's way more information than I ever would have found. Great job!
Noticed you also have my father's book, Chang Chih-Tung and educational reform in China. So happy you have a copy!!! He would have been pleased.

~kat ayers mannix
Yes, I was thinking of M. R. James too. I'm limiting myself to one sentence a day (but not a short one). I've currently lost interest in the Haunted Soda (I'm not into psychiatric hospital scenarios) so I may have the necessary energy to spare!
Thank you for your inspirational first sentence. But I hope I'm not going to have to read Proust and James to keep up: I'm pouring enough temps perdu into Library Thing already!
Fogies,
In think I know what you mean about your opening sentence. Rather like M.R. James on peyote.
Peanut
Her ladyship looks very elegant. And probably shouldn't be crossed, by the looks of that right paw...
Laura Ingalls Wilder, actually. :)
Wow. I thank you with reservations. I may be too much of a prude for that site. I bookmarked it however, so I could break this confounded webspeak code.
Thank you for that quote. Who knows where that thread is going. I do get a chuckle out of Wodehouse, Sayers and others, Mark Twain when he is not being too morose. My husband and I are very new to this "webspeak". We were trying to figure out what EPU'd stands for...E Pluribus Unum? One lost among many? Or European Peoples United? :)
What a lovely cat. Ours looks that content after a hit of catnip or when just waking up. I wanted to thank you for your post about irony for me. I am loving this site, even though I may be playing here more than reading, it's O.K., 'cause half the time when I sit to read I fall asleep anymore.
I can't believe you have a copy of Precious Rubble by Theodore L. Shaw -- why o why?
We're the only two people who share the poetry book Of Separatness and Merging!
Thanks for the encouragement on At Swim Two Birds. I have in fact abandoned ship a couple of times!

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