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Member: Hera

Library744 books — see library

Reviews26 reviews — see reviews

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Tagsnovel (188), novel 19th c (76), children's (74), poetry (67), history (45), drama (33), literature (27), short stories (24), Greek (23) — see all tags

Groups18th Century British Literature, A Critical Look At The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baker Street and Beyond, Bits for Brits, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Brits, Girlybooks, Happy Heathens, Israfel, It's a LondonThing — show all groups , Modernist elusions: madeleines for Sweeney, Outside, Poetry Fool, Spruitjes (Brussels sprouts), Story-writing Co-Op, Sweet Soul Music, Tea!, The Chapel of the Abyss, The Green Dragon, The Red Room, Vegetarians and vegans, What the Dickens...?

Favorite authorsRaymond Chandler, E. E. Cummings, Charles Dickens, James Ellroy, Euripides, Homer, Christopher Marlowe, Ezra Pound, Sappho (Shared favorites)

About me A reader, an idler, a teacher and drinker of tea. I like music, travel and food. I live on a 9 metre yacht in Amsterdam with a pirate. I have back problems as the result of some very silly accidents indeed, so I don't work much. I love: smoking, reading, chatting, secondhand bookshops, sunshine and living outdoors. When I'm in London I have access to a bath (gasp! the luxury!), my family and friends and my books. In Amsterdam I'm surrounded by pirates, sailors and parties. It's a pretty good life: I adore Amsterdam and I love my pirate.

I sometimes write poetry: it's very short, like my attention span.

About my library I lost a lot of books. I'm cataloguing the ones that got stolen and slowly replacing them with the help of my LT online library and every secondhand bookshop I visit. I have some thoughts about selling the whole lot to make room for stupid stuff, like clothes.

Here's my 'I can't live without' books, as determined by those I pined for when I moved to a tiny ship with another book hoarder (space is at a premium but we keep buying them):

The Penguin Book of Greek Verse
The Greek Anthology (Loeb)
Teach Yourself Ancient Greek
Sappho (Loeb)
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
David Copperfield
The Odyssey - two volumes, Loeb

Everything else is stored in my London bedroom and also spills out into another room in the house. Bless my mum for giving me literal and metaphorical space. Leaving my books behind was the biggest wrench I've ever felt; I can chat to friends and family but I miss being surrounded by my lovely books, which I've lugged around England for over twenty years (which surely didn't help my back problems...)

LocationAmsterdam, NL / Greenwich, London

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceAug 12, 2006