Member: HouseholdOpera

Library580 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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Tagspoetry (168), fiction (131), c20 (81), renaissance (69), criticism (46), anthologies (41), c19 (37), reference (34) — see all tags

GroupsBook History / Histoire du Livre, Edward Gorey, Everything and Nothing, Ghost Stories, Past and Present, HMS Surprise, I See Dead People['s Books], Librarians who LibraryThing, Opera, or Nobody Knows the Traubel I've Seen, Philadelphians, Poetry Fool — show all groups , Robertson Davies, Swatties on LibraryThing, Talking Piffle, The 'verse, The Drones Club (all things P.G. Wodehouse), Wallace Stevens

Favorite authorsJoan Aiken, John Ashbery, W. H. Auden, Alison Bechdel, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Anne Carson, Gaius Valerius Catullus, Robertson Davies, Stuart Dybek, Edward Gorey, George Herbert, M. R. James, John Keats, James Merrill, Patrick O'Brian, Frank O'Hara, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney Sir, Wallace Stevens, Cole Swensen, Sarah Waters, P.G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBookhaven, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Giovanni's Room, Penn Book Center, Robin's Book Store Inc, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Shaman Drum, Strand Bookstore

Favorite librariesSwarthmore College Library

About me Library student and opera-loving English literature geek.

About my library I've cataloged most of my collection by now. Many of my books (especially the ones tagged "renaissance" and "literary theory") were acquired while I was a grad student in English, but since then I've been snapping up a lot of fiction. Books I've tagged "family" originally belonged to various family members. I'm perpetually short of bookshelves and constitutionally incapable of resisting Friends of the Library sales and secondhand bookstores.

"He had all the predisposition to take interest in an old library, and there was every opportunity for him here to make systematic acquaintance with one ... The drawing up of a catalogue raisonné would be a delicious occupation for winter." -- M. R. James, "Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance," in Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, ed. Michael Cox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).

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Real nameAmanda Watson

LocationPhiladelphia, PA

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Member sinceSep 12, 2005