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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick : ein deutsches Märchen in drei Akten by Carl Zuckmayer

Grenzen des Wettbewerbs by Die Gruppe von Lissabon

Die Pflanzengesellschaften Mitteleuropas : eine kleine Übersicht by Fritz Runge

Raumschiff Delta VII. (Weltraumpartisanen Bd. 1-4) by Mark Brandis

Elizabeth auf Rügen. Ein Reiseroman by Elizabeth von Arnim

Varus, Varus! : Antike Texte zur Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald. Zweisprachige Ausgabe by Lutz Walther

Farbe bekennen by Katharina Oguntoye

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CollectionsYour library (790), Favorites (39), Currently reading (6), Thema: Afghanistan (28), Fiction/Belletristik (190), Non-fiction/Sachbücher (216), Poetry/Poesie (2), Electronic recordings (111), To read (215), Read but unowned (48), Wishlist (50), Bücherei RD (57), Büchereivorschlag (14), Bücherei-Leihverkehr SH (66), Fernleihe (94), Kaufen (19), Bookcrossing (26), Jumped ship (1), Umschlag einscannen / Scan cover (81), Wissenwertes bearbeiten (1), To Purge (62), Read, then Purge (10), Purged / Ausgesondert (6), Kauf neu / Bought new (319), Kauf gebraucht / Bought used (50), Kauf Remittende / Bought on sale (118), All collections (1,147)

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TagsLit. Germany (120), Germany (103), history (95), Lit. Britain (75), biography (65), Lit. USA (62), gift (48), USA (47), war (44), religion (42) — see all tags

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Groups40-Something Library Thingers, BBC (Radio) 7 Listeners, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Combiners!, Erlesenes Deutschland, Esperanto!, German Library Thingers, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, HMS Surprise —show all groups

Favorite authorsDavid Allen, Jane Austen, Shmuley Boteach, Ben Bova, Mark Brandis, Roméo Dallaire, Michael Ende, Andreas Eschbach, Pnina Nave Levinson, Jürgen Lodemann, Jonathan Magonet, Geert Mak, Fritz Mühlenweg, Julie Morgenstern, Patrick O'Brian, Amos Oz, Atiq Rahimi, Rafik Schami, Valentin Senger, William Shakespeare, Lisa Tetzner (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBooklooker.de, Buch Habel Erfurt, Buchhandlung Reichel, Coburgsche Buchhandlung, Hay Castle Bookshop, Hay Cinema Bookshop, Mostlymaps.com, Waterstone's Greenwich

Favorite librariesSchleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek, Stadt- und Regionalbibliothek Erfurt, Stadtbücherei Rendsburg

About meMiddle-European, middle-aged, middle-class, a middling library :-D.

My reading topic for 2010: Afghanistan past and present.
I've found loads of books on the present but the past is still a bit thin on the ground...

Stuff for the Afghanistan theme other than books:

Online ressources:
Helmand Blog (from the UK Forces Media Ops Team)
30 days through Afghanistan a travel blog, starting 7 February 2010 (from the ISAF Joint Command, Kabul)
Streitkräftebasis (German Bundeswehr)
Südasien.info: Geschichte Afghanistans seit 1747
Wikipedia: Geschichte Afghanistans

Video and audio resources:
Return to Afghanistan, reportage by Ross Kemp for SkyOne (UK)
(tbed)

Other projects
Ich arbeite auch an der Übersetzung von LibraryThing und an der Pflege der deutschen Übersetzung mit. Falls du mithelfen willst: Zur Zeit läuft gerade eine Qualitätsverbesserung. :-)

About my libraryBought recently:
Wenn es ein Paradies gibt (Ron Leshem), novel (IL)
Wie kannst du so fest glauben : meine Schwester, der Gott der Juden und ich (Kerstin Höckel), biographical account (DE)
Cold Zero (Christopher Whitcomb), biography (US)
Black Watch (Gregory Burke), play (UK)
100 Flowers to Knit and Crochet (Lesley Stanfield), reference book (UK)
Jonathan Trouern-Trend: Birding Babylon, diary (US)

I also collect my audiobooks and radioplays here, mainly to make them accessible for friends and family to borrow them. They are all in the collection Electronic recordings and labelled [radioplay] or [audiobook] in the title.

Quotes from and on books and readers:

"Thanks for having me check Neil Gaiman out. I mean, who needs rock 'n' roll with writers like that?" (Thingamabrarian Pemberley)
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"Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen, und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buch?" (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorismen)
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"Given that there are only 16 or so basic plots (unless the bookworld upgrade to a 32-plot operating system has happened yet) it's hard for any current author to achieve total newness." (Thingamabrarian reading_fox)

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And now for something completely different:
"But what do I know, I don't even know what an ideological superstructure is. What happens when it hits an iceberg?" Guardian reader CommanderKeen

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Member sinceApr 23, 2006

Currently readingWie kannst du so fest glauben : meine Schwester, der Gott der Juden und ich by Kerstin Höckel
Bertelsmann Sprachkalender Französisch 2010: Abreißkalender by
Becket Or: The Honour of God [radioplay] by Jean Anouilh
Wenn es ein Paradies gibt : Roman by Ron Leshem
Birding Babylon : a soldier's journal from Iraq by Jonathan Trouern-Trend
Cold Zero by Christopher Whitcomb
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Battlefield tourism : history, place and interpretation by Chris Ryan

Notiz für mich selber: Rausfinden, wie die Buchhändler unter "virtueller Ort" (Übersetzung??) ordentlich sortiert werden können: http://www.librarything.de/work/5174183/quicklinks/28789907
- unter Länder sortieren?
- General nur für internationale Händler?
- General streichen und USA-Eintrag an Anfang verschieben (Mail an Tim).

posted by GirlFromIpanema at 7:50 am (EST) on Feb 28, 2010

Hi GFI - just wanted to leave you a note saying hello and I've just found your library. It looks great! I've just joined the European Challenge group, but haven't started a thread yet. I'm a New Zealander, but we're about to move to Basel for 2 years, and I'm really looking forward to living in the middle of Europe and reading lots of European books. My German is rusty - very rusty - so I should really be writing this auf deutsch, um es zu ueben. I'll pipe up in the German groups on here when I'm a bit more confident with the language....

posted by cmt at 2:38 am (EST) on Nov 18, 2009

Hi GFI, wie ich das sehe, sind die Infos bei Dir schon bei der Neueingabe verloren gegangen, bei mir erst jetzt bei der Bearbeitung. Wie ich sie damals gesucht habe, weiss ich nicht mehr so genau, vermutlich aber auch per Titeleingabe, weil sie zum Teil älter oder mit einer ausländischen ISBN sind, die nicht genau zuzuordnen war. Einen Teil habe ich auch manuell erfasst. Die meisten habe ich inzwischen auch schon wieder eingegeben, es sind nur noch ein paar Beispiele da. Danke, dass Du an mich gedacht hast!
Gruß Hahehei

posted by hahehei at 8:12 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2009

Danke für Dein Engagement in Sachen Übersetzungen!

posted by berlinophil at 8:29 am (EST) on Sep 27, 2009

Hi! It's my first time reading the Aubrey/Maturin series. My recently acquired boyfriend is a fan. :) They are great, sort of like Sharpe series meets Jane Austen. I just finished book 4.

posted by anna_in_pdx at 1:32 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009

Want to tell you that I didn't bang on door. . . much more graphic! I went into apt. and all was quiet. So I went into bedroom, wondering what I'd find, and this is what: a LUMP under a BIG quilt!!! She was sound asleep! (It was almost 9 a. m.)

posted by Esta1923 at 4:17 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2009

> ... I also don't think that we will ever get to the point where the "Bible affair" is sorted...! Kudos to you for trying to get some order into it.

I agree that getting Bibles sorted out is hopeless. I tried a bit a while ago when I cataloged some of my Bibles, then today I sort of drifted there again and did a couple of clearly harmless things to make it a bit better. There are just too many Bibles with insufficient information to know where they really belong, and very little agreement on who the author of the damned thing is.

posted by jimroberts at 2:08 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

Hi,
I've copied your disambiguation notice for the Luther Bible from LT.de to LT.com (http://www.librarything.com/work/730552). I realised too late that I would benefit from this by being considered its author, so maybe you should make a trivial edit so that it's yours again.

posted by jimroberts at 6:19 am (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

Die London Review of Books hat in ihrem Weihnachtsprospekt eine Biographie, die von Interesse sein könnte: Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by David Cordingly (Blurb: "From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag, comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling 19th century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.").

posted by jcbrunner at 9:10 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2008

Thanks for commenting on the Jane Eyre review. I hope I didn't give you the wrong impression of Jean Rhys. While her "heroines" are passive and not role models, Jean Rhys is very much worth reading and is a model, not only in her writing style, but in her heroic effort to take up her pen, and write a great novel, when many thought she was too old and her career was long over. Her writing is clear, detached, descriptive and shows her excellent ear for dialogue and accent. She should be read for all these reasons. And while her heroines are passive, they illustrate poignantly the perils of passivity and dependence, and in that, Jean Rhys does a great service.

posted by Ganeshaka at 12:31 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2008

Hello,GirlFromIpanema,
It is a mystery to me. I've noticed that there are a lot of "connections" to people that I hadn't heard of before on the new Home tab. I'd guess it is because we share a fair number of books? Maybe because I lived in Germany when I was a kid? (just joking)

I like your library. You have a book about Obama, I see. His speech last night was very exciting, I'm feeling very hopeful for him.

posted by Coelacanth at 3:49 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2008

Thank you for adding Pangea Day info. I hope some others will watch with us!

posted by Esta1923 at 1:02 am (EST) on May 9, 2008

Saw your comment about widening audiences for classical music. You might be interested in what's going on in and around Gateshead in North-east England. Look here when you have a moment: http://www.thesagegateshead.org/

posted by EnglishPatient at 9:38 pm (EST) on May 5, 2008

Hi – have you weighed in yet on the next book for Group Reads – Literature? The discussion thread is here. And Irish set up a poll for us here (it can be amended if there’s lots of interest in a book that isn’t on there yet). Hope to see you there!

Terri

posted by teelgee at 1:20 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2008

Hi i just started entering books and you seemed to be realy interested and you have great ideas

posted by Tay11 at 11:36 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2008

Hi!

I wanted to let you know that that link for "nevering" seems to be working now!

Lilithcat

posted by lilithcat at 9:57 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2008